Biography
Lindsay Anderson (1923–1994) was a leading light of the Free Cinema movement. He began work as a documentary filmmaker which refined his talent as an observer and his sensibility towards social issues. He studied at Oxford University and, in addition to completing such titles as Wakefield Express (1952), O Dreamland (1953) and Thursday's Children (1954), he cofounded the film magazine Sequence, which played a huge role in shaping the Free Cinema movement.
He debuted with This Sporting Life (1963), which in no way indicated that his future directorial and screenwriting efforts would take the form of sarcastic critiques of society, culminating in the trilogy If.... (1968, Palme d'Or at Cannes), O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982). Other films include In Celebration (1974), Look Back in Anger (1980), and The Whales of August (1987). Three of his films involved the collaboration of Czech cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček.
MFF Karlovy Vary
Director
Movies | |
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1993 |
Is That All There Is? |
1991 |
Ritorno di Robin Hood, Il |
1989 |
Glory! Glory! (TV movie) |
1987 |
The Whales of August |
1985 |
Wish You Were There |
1982 |
Britannia Hospital |
1980 |
Look Back in Anger |
1979 |
The Old Crowd (TV movie) |
1975 |
In Celebration |
1973 |
O Lucky Man! |
1972 |
Home (TV movie) |
1968 |
If.... |
1967 |
Red, White and Zero |
1963 |
This Sporting Life |
Series | |
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1955 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Documentaries | |
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1986 |
Free Cinema (TV movie) |
Wham! in China: Foreign Skies |
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1967 |
Singing Lesson, The |
1959 |
March to Aldermaston |
1957 |
Every Day Except Christmas |
1955 |
The Children Upstairs |
Thursday's Children |
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1953 |
O Dreamland |
1952 |
Wakefield Express |
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1955 |
A Hundred Thousand Children |
Energy First |
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Foot and Mouth |
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Green and Pleasant Land |
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Henry |
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£20 a Ton |
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1952 |
Three Installations |
Trunk Conveyor |
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1949 |
Idlers That Work |
1948 |
Meet the Pioneers |
Producer
Actor
Movies | |
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1992 |
Blame It on the Bellboy |
1991 |
Prisoner of Honor (TV movie) |
1981 |
Chariots of Fire |
1973 |
O Lucky Man! |
1968 |
Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite |
Inadmissible Evidence |
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1961 |
Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley |
1959 |
The Western (TV movie) - narrator |
Documentaries | |
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2007 |
Never Apologize |
1995 |
I See the World as a White Bus (TV movie) |
1994 |
Lucky Man |
1993 |
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film - narrator |
Hollywood U.K. (series) |
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John Ford (TV movie) |
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1989 |
Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (TV movie) |
The World on a Plate |
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1987 |
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (TV movie) - narrator |
1986 |
Free Cinema (TV movie) |
1972 |
75 Years of Cinema Museum |
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1953 |
The Pleasure Garden |
Screenwriter
Documentaries | |
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1957 |
Every Day Except Christmas |
1955 |
Thursday's Children |
1953 |
O Dreamland |
Guest
Shows | |
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1980 |
Did You See..? |