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John Schlesinger
Directing

John Schlesinger
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1926-02-16,London, England, UK
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

The Lost Language of Cranes

6.2

The Lost Language of Cranes
1992-02-09

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The Big Screen
1973-02-20

The Battle of the River Plate

6.2

The Battle of the River Plate
1956-10-30

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

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Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998-01-01

Visions of Eight

7

Visions of Eight
1973-10-06

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Black Legend
1949-01-10

The Twilight of the Golds

5.8

The Twilight of the Golds
1996-10-10

The Celluloid Closet

7.136

The Celluloid Closet
1996-01-30

The Crowd Around the Cowboy

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The Crowd Around the Cowboy
1969-01-01

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

6.3

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990-01-19

The Last Man to Hang

5.2

The Last Man to Hang
1956-08-01

6.7

Darling
1965-08-03

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

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The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
1976-10-06

6.9

Billy Liar
1963-08-15

7

Terminus
1961-12-01

Brothers in Law

7.1

Brothers in Law
1957-03-04

Stormy Crossing

4.8

Stormy Crossing
1958-08-01

Pacific Heights

6.2

Pacific Heights
1990-09-28

The Divided Heart

6.7

The Divided Heart
1954-11-09

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

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Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
1967-10-01

Speaking of Britain

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Speaking of Britain
1967-01-02

6.3

Ivanhoe
1958-01-05

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.4

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

7.3

Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956-02-22

The Adventures of Robin Hood

6.4

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955-09-26

6

The Buccaneers
1956-09-19

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993-09-05

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Flick Flack
1974-01-07

Golden Globe Awards

6.8

Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20