Died 1991-11-14.
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Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio Richardson was an English theatre director and filmmaker, whose career spanned five decades. He was identified with the "angry young men" group of British directors and playwrights during the 1950s, and was later a key figure in the British New Wave filmmaking movement.
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Born 5 June 1928 · Died 14 November 1991 · Q52411
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1991· 1 entry
1974· 1 entry
Travelled to Los Angeles to work on a script (never produced) with Sam Shepard, and took up residence there
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1972· 1 entry
Had a relationship with Grizelda Grimond, who was a secretary for Richardson's former business partner Oscar Lewenstein and the daughter of British politician Jo Grimond
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1970· 1 entry
Richardson was set to direct a film about Vaslav Nijinsky with a script by Edward Albee
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1966· 1 entry
Richardson is alleged to have financed the escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison of the spy and double agent George Blake
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1964· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Tom Jones (1964).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Picture for Tom Jones (1964).
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Richardson received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for Tom Jones (1963) based on the novel by Henry Fielding
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Film for A Taste of Honey (1962).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay for A Taste of Honey (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Richardson co-founded Woodfall Film Productions with John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman, and, as Woodfall's debut, directed the film version of Look Back in Anger (1959), his first feature film
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1957· 1 entry
Directed Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice in Osborne's next play The Entertainer, again for the Royal Court
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1955· 1 entry
In his directing debut, Richardson produced Jean Giraudoux's The Apollo of Bellac for television with Denholm Elliott and Natasha Parry in the main roles
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1928· 2 entries
Born 1928-06-05.
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To Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist, and his wife, Elsie Evans (née Campion)
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