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John Richard Schlesinger CBE (February 16, 1926 – July 25, 2003) was an English film director.
Born in London to a Jewish family,[1] he went on to work in television as an actor after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. One of his first movies, the documentary Terminus (1960), earned him a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award.
His first two movies,
A Kind of Loving (
1962) and
Billy Liar (
1963) were concerned with the life of characters based in the North of England. His third
Darling (
1965) described tartly the modern urban way of life in London and was one of the first films about
swinging London. Schlesinger's next movie was
Far From the Madding Crowd (
1967), an adaptation of
Thomas Hardy's popular novel. Schlesinger's
Midnight Cowboy (
1969) was internationally acclaimed and it won
Oscars for
Best Director and
Best Picture.
His later films include Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Marathon Man (1976), Yanks (1979), Pacific Heights (1990), A Question of Attribution (1991), The Innocent (1993) and The Next Best Thing (2000).
Schlesinger also directed Timon of Athens (1964) for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the musical I and Albert (1972) at London's Piccadilly Theatre. From 1973 he was an associate director of the Royal National Theatre.
Schlesinger underwent a quadruple
heart bypass in
1998, before suffering a
stroke in December
2000. He was taken off
life support at Desert Regional Medical Center in
Palm Springs on
July 24,
2003 by his life partner, photographer, Michael Childers. Schlesinger died early the following day at the age of 77.
Filmography
Footnotes
- ^ "Variety Club - Jewish Chronicle colour supplement "350 years"", The Jewish Chronicle, 2006-12-15, pp. 28-29. Retrieved on December 23, 2006.
