biography
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Richardson, Tony
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popular name of Cecil Antonio Richardson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1928–91)
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| biography:
| Stage and film director, born in Shipley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and worked for the BBC before entering the theatre. His reputation was established with the Royal Court Theatre production of Look Back in Anger (1956), a play representative of the emerging generation of ‘Angry Young Men’. During the 1950s his experimental productions stimulated a revival of creative vitality on the British stage. He co-founded Woodfall Film Productions Ltd (1958), and notable films include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and Tom Jones (1963), for which he won an Oscar for best director. Later films include The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Ned Kelly (1970), and in the 1980s he directed several television films, such as Phantom of the Opera (1989) and Blue Sky (1990). |
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