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John Schlesinger‌

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John Schlesinger

London, England, UK

John Schlesinger

London, England, UK

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1926-02-16

Popularity

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Biography

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE, was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger was born in London, into a middle class Jewish family. His acting career began in the 1950s and consisted of supporting roles in British films and television productions. He began his directorial career in 1956 with the short documentary Sunday in the Park about London's Hyde Park. In 1958, Schlesinger created a documentary on Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival for the BBC's Monitor TV programme, including rehearsals of the children's opera Noye's Fludde featuring a young Michael Crawford. By the 1960s, he had virtually given up acting to concentrate on a directing career, and another of his earlier directorial efforts, the British Transport Films' documentary Terminus (1961), gained a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. His first two fiction films, A Kind of Loving (1962) and Billy Liar (1963) were set in the North of England. A Kind of Loving won the Golden Bear award at the 12th Berlinale in 1962. His third feature film, Darling (1965), tartly described the modern, urban way of life in London and was one of the first films about 'swinging London'. Schlesinger's next film was the period drama Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's popular novel accentuated by beautiful English country locations. Both films (and Billy Liar) featured Julie Christie as the female lead. Schlesinger's next film, Midnight Cowboy (1969), was internationally acclaimed. A story of two hustlers living on the fringe in the bad side of New York City, it was Schlesinger's first film shot in the US, and it won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. During the 1970s, he made an array of films that were mainly about loners, losers and people outside the clean world, such as Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Marathon Man (1976) and Yanks (1979). Later, came the major box office and critical failure of Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), followed by films that attracted mixed responses from the public From 1973, he was an associate director of the Royal National Theatre, where he produced George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1975). He also directed several operas, beginning with Les contes d'Hoffmann (1980) and Der Rosenkavalier (1984), both at Covent Garden. Schlesinger was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to film in 1970. In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.

Movie Credits

The Lost Language of Cranes

The Lost Language of Cranes‌
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calendar 1992

The Big Screen

The Big Screen‌
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calendar 1973

The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate‌
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calendar 1956

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs‌
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calendar 1998

Visions of Eight

Visions of Eight‌
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calendar 1973

Black Legend

Black Legend‌
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calendar 1949

The Twilight of the Golds

The Twilight of the Golds‌
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calendar 1996

The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet‌
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calendar 1996

The Crowd Around the Cowboy

The Crowd Around the Cowboy‌
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calendar 1969

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey‌
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calendar 1990

The Last Man to Hang

The Last Man to Hang‌
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calendar 1956

Darling

Darling‌
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calendar 1965

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People‌
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calendar 1976

Billy Liar

Billy Liar‌
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calendar 1963

Terminus

Terminus‌
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calendar 1961

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law‌
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calendar 1957

Stormy Crossing

Stormy Crossing‌
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calendar 1958

Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights‌
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calendar 1990

The Divided Heart

The Divided Heart‌
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calendar 1954

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd‌
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calendar 1967

Speaking of Britain

Speaking of Britain‌
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calendar 1967

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film‌
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calendar 2002

Tv Credits

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe‌
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calendar 1958

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood‌
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calendar 1955

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of Scotland Yard‌
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calendar 1956

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood‌
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calendar 1955

The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers‌
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calendar 1956

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties‌
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calendar 1993

Flick Flack

Flick Flack‌
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calendar 1974

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards‌
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calendar 1944

Sunday Night Theatre

Sunday Night Theatre‌
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calendar 1950