Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet (May 5, 1940) is a British television and stage director and an occasional writer and actor.
Lindsay-Hogg was born in New York City to actress Geraldine Fitzgerald and her first husband Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 4th Baronet. His career began directing the 1960s British rock video series Ready Steady Go!, a forerunner of MTV-type programming. This work led to an unaired television special, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968), which was finally released in 1996.
Some of his notable films include Nasty Habits (1977), The Sound of Murder (1982), The Object of Beauty with Andie MacDowell and John Malkovich ( 1991), and Waiting for Godot (2001).
Off-Broadway, he helmed Larry Kramer's AIDS drama The Normal Heart, produced at The Public Theater by Joseph Papp in 1985. For Broadway, he directed both the original 1979 production (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award) and revival (1980) of Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Agnes of God (1982), and The Boys of Winter (1985).
Much of Lindsay-Hogg's work has been in television, most notably the first six installments of the Granada Television's highly acclaimed eleven-part series Brideshead Revisited, which aired in the US on PBS in 1981. Other credits include Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park (1982), Faerie Tale Theatre episode Thumbelina (1984), Master Harold...and the Boys with Matthew Broderick (1985), As Is ( 1986), Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert ( 1987), the series Marsalis on Music (1995), an adaptation of Horton Foote's Alone ( 1997),
In 1994 he was credited for direction of A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of English rock band The Who in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. In 1994 a CD and a VHS video were issued, and in 1998 a DVD was released.
In 1970, Lindsay-Hogg directed the full-length documentary Let It Be. He would also work on a number of videos related to the Beatles.
In 2000, he directed the VH1 television movie entitled Two of Us, named after the song of the same name, a track from The Beatles' final album, Let It Be. The movie is a fictionalized account of 24 April 1976, (six years after the break-up of The Beatles) the day Lorne Michaels made a statement on Saturday Night Live in which he offered The Beatles $3000.00 to appear on his program. The story is told through a series of conversations between John Lennon (Jared Harris) and Paul McCartney (Aidan Quinn).
