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 The son of a Shipley chemist he was initially connected with the stage first with the post war Shipley Young Theatre then with the Bradford Civic Theatre where he came into contact with the Bradford born author J B Priestley who recognising his potential commissioned him to write a TV documentary. from where it was a short step to directing films. His close association with another novelist, John Osborne resulted in him directing Look Back in Ange in 1959 and The Entertainer in 1960 where the location scenes were shot in Morecambe where his parents had made their home in retirement. Following the great success of Tom Jones, particularly in America and his marriage to Vanessa Redgrave having ended he moved there and co wrote the film Dead Cert. The last film he made was The Hotel New Hampshire.A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford he became a key figure in the rejuvenation of the British theatre in the 1960's. he was the co- founder with George Devine of the English Stage Company which brought new realism and productions to The Royal Court Theatre in London, such as Look Back in Anger in 1954 and The Entertainer in 1957 through which he became inextricably linked with the whole Angry Young Man phenomenon Tony who'd earlier directed *with Karel Reisz the documentary Momma Don't Allow (1958) an impression of a North London jazz club moved into feature films when he and Osborne founded the Woodffall production company, He continued periodically to work in the theatre but his subsequent energies were predominantly devoted to the cinema..For Woodfall he directed films of both the Osbourne plays in 1959 and 1960 as well as A Taste of Honey (1961) from Shelagh Delaney's play and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962 from an Alan Sillitoe story), These films, with their extensive use of locations often in the Midlands and North Yorkshire introduced a new and refreshing quality of realism to the British cinema
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The son of a Shipley chemist he was initially connected with the stage first with the post war Shipley Young Theatre then with the Bradford Civic Theatre where he came into contact with the Bradford born author J B Priestley who recognising his potential commissioned him to write a TV documentary. from where it was a short step to directing films. His close association with another novelist, John Osborne resulted in him directing Look Back in Ange in 1959 and The Entertainer in 1960 where the location scenes were shot in Morecambe where his parents had made their home in retirement. Following the great success of Tom Jones, particularly in America and his marriage to Vanessa Redgrave having ended he moved there and co wrote the film Dead Cert. The last film he made was The Hotel New Hampshire.
A graduate of Wadham College, Oxford he became a key figure in the rejuvenation of the British theatre in the 1960's. he was the co- founder with George Devine of the English Stage Company which brought new realism and productions to The Royal Court Theatre in London, such as Look Back in Anger in 1954 and The Entertainer in 1957 through which he became inextricably linked with the whole Angry Young Man phenomenon Tony who'd earlier directed *with Karel Reisz the documentary Momma Don't Allow (1958) an impression of a North London jazz club moved into feature films when he and Osborne founded the Woodffall production company, He continued periodically to work in the theatre but his subsequent energies were predominantly devoted to the cinema..For Woodfall he directed films of both the Osbourne plays in 1959 and 1960 as well as A Taste of Honey (1961) from Shelagh Delaney's play and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962 from an Alan Sillitoe story), These films, with their extensive use of locations often in the Midlands and North Yorkshire introduced a new and refreshing quality of realism to the British cinema
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Ex-wife Vanessa Redgrave named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in their 1967 divorce on grounds of adultery.Companion at the time of his death was Jeanne Moreau.Directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Joyce Redman and Jessica Lange. Lange won for Blue Sky (1994).In 1970 he planned to make a film about the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, with Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev and French actress Claude Jade, but it was never made.One of the British "New Wave" directors.With John Osbourne founded Woodfall Films named after the street where John lived for some time.As president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, he directed such plays as "Peer Gynt" and "King John". Richardson graduated from Oxford in 1952 and joined the BBC as a producer. In 1956 he became associate director of the English Stage Company. The first play he produced was John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger". This started a fruitful collaborative cycle which included work on several films. Richardson formed his own production company, Woodfall Films, in 1958, turning out high-quality features, such as The Entertainer (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961) and Tom Jones (1963).Attended Wadham College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, and his contemporaries included Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert. |
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Tony Richardson |
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Director,Producer,Writer (IMDB) |
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All World |
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2024-07-01 03:35:31 |
| Biography: |
The son of a Shipley chemist he was initially connected with the stage first with the post war Shipley Young Theatre then with the Bradford Civic Theatre where he came into contact with the Bradford born author J B Priestley who recognising his |
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Ex-wife Vanessa Redgrave named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in their 1967 divorce on grounds of adultery.Companion at the time of his death was Jeanne Moreau.Directed seven different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Joyce Redman and Jessica Lange. Lange won for Blue Sky (1994).In 1970 he planned to make a film about the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, with Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev and French actress Claude Jade, but it was never made.One of the British "New Wave" directors.With John Osbourne founded Woodfall Films named after the street where John lived for some time.As president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, he directed such plays as "Peer Gynt" and "King John". Richardson graduated from Oxford in 1952 and joined the BBC as a producer. In 1956 he became associate director of the English Stage Company. The first play he produced was John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger". This started a fruitful collaborative cycle which included work on several films. Richardson formed his own production company, Woodfall Films, in 1958, turning out high-quality features, such as The Entertainer (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961) and Tom Jones (1963).Attended Wadham College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, and his contemporaries included Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert. |
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It's no exaggeration to say that the "sequence" group changed the whole way of feeling and thinking about film in England--at any rate for a few inspiring years, before the British sank once again into complacency and philistinism. |
| Job title: |
Director,Producer,Writer |
| Others works: |
(1969) He directed William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet," in a Free Theatre Production at the Round House Theatre in London, England with Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam, Michael Pennington, Maria |
| Spouse: |
Vanessa Redgrave (April 29, 1962 - April 28, 1967) (divorced, 2 children) |
| Children: |
Natasha RichardsonJoely Richardson |
| Relatives: |
Miche��l Neeson (Grandchild)
Daisy Bevan (Grandchild) |
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