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Cecil Antonio Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director, producer and screenwriter, 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 ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Tony Richardson, English stage and film director whose innovative productions stimulated the Angry Young Men and British New Wave movements. He was known for the plays Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, and A Taste of Honey and the movies The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones.
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Tony Richardson (1928-1991) was a British director, producer and writer who won two Oscars for Tom Jones. He was married to Vanessa Redgrave and directed several plays and films by John Osborne, J B Priestley and William Shakespeare.
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Nov 16, 1991 · Tony Richardson, who won an Oscar for the film "Tom Jones," died yesterday at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 63 years old.
Aug 27, 2007 · Richardson’s first foray into film was as a participant in the Free Cinema movement, the precursor to the British New Wave. In the early 1950s, while writing film criticism for the progressive film journal Sight and Sound, Richardson became associated with its editors, Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz.
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Tom Jones. In the early 1960s, at the height of the British New Wave, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne set out for more fanciful territory than the gritty realism of the movement they’d helped establish.
Richardson died from AIDS-related causes in Los Angeles on 14 November 1991. The manuscript of his entertaining and illuminating, if unreliable, autobiography was discovered by his actress daughters, Natasha and Joely, on the day of his death, and published posthumously. Bibliography.
