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John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and theatre director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing with provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.
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entertainment · English film and theatre director (1926–2003) · film director · actor · screenwriter · television director · director · writer · film screenwriter · also John Schlesinger, John Richard Schlesinger, Schlesinger
Born 16 February 1926 · Died 25 July 2003 · Q55303
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everybody’s career’: the diverse, disruptive, Oscar-winning cinema of John Schlesinger
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2025· 3 entries
FirstShowing.net: John Schlesinger's 60s Classic 'Darling' - New 4K Restoration Trailer
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KESQ News: John Schlesinger’s groundbreaking films to be screened at the Palm Springs Cultural Center
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The Desert Sun: John Schlesinger film fest benefits Palm Springs Cultural Center
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Kind of Loving: Alan Bates in a clip from John Schlesinger's classic – video
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: John Schlesinger's very old London Waterloo
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2003· 3 entries
Directors Guild of America: John Schlesinger Memorial
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Died 2003-07-25.
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Cineuropa: John Schlesinger dies
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1998· 1 entry
Before suffering a stroke on New Year's Day 2001, which substantially diminished his faculties
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (1996).
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1991· 1 entry
Schlesinger made a brief return to acting, portraying the gay character 'Derek' in the TV adaptation of The Lost Language of Cranes for the BBC
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1981· 1 entry
The Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Schlesinger its annual Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his life's work
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1972).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Midnight Cowboy (1970).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy (1970).
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for Terminus (1962).
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Won Golden Bear for A Kind of Loving (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Schlesinger was credited as exterior or second unit director on 23 episodes of the TV series The Four Just Men and four 30-minute episodes of the series Danger Man
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1958· 1 entry
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
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1956· 1 entry
With the short documentary Sunday in the Park about London's Hyde Park
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-02-16.
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