biography
| name: |
Eyre, Sir Richard (Charles Hastings)
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pronunciation:
[air]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1943– )
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| biography:
| Theatre, film, and television director, born in Barnstaple, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became associate director of the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (1967–70), then director of productions (1970–2). He was artistic director of the Nottingham Playhouse (1973–-8), then producer of the BBC Television Play for Today series (1978–81). Associate director of the National Theatre, London (1981–8), he became artistic director (1988–97). Films for television include Tumbledown (1988, BAFTA for best single drama), The Absence of War (1995), and King Lear (1998). In 1998 he received the Laurence Olivier Award for best director. He was knighted in 1997. |
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