Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 – November 14, 1991) was an English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer.
Richardson was born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist. He attended Ashville College, Harrogate.
Representative of the British "New Wave" of directors, he developed the ideas that led to the formation of the English Stage Company, along with his close friend George Goetschius and George Devine. He directed John Osborne's seminal play Look Back in Anger at the Court, writing both that theatre and that playwright into British theatre history. In the same period he directed Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon. Richardson later co-founded Woodfall Films with John Osborne, and, as Woodfall's debut, directed the film version of Look Back in Anger despite having no track record in film at all. Richardson and Osborne eventually fell out during production of the film Charge of the Light Brigade.
In 1964 Richardson received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for Tom Jones (1963). Richardson later began work on Mahogany (1975), starring Diana Ross, but was fired by Motown head Berry Gordy shortly after production began. Gordy took over direction himself.
He was married to the actress Vanessa Redgrave between 1962 and 1967 (he left her for actress Jeanne Moreau), and had two daughters, Natasha Richardson (born 1963) and Joely Richardson (born 1965), both of whom are actresses.
Richardson was bisexual (which he had carefully hidden for as long as possible), and died of complications from AIDS at 63 in 1991.
Filmography
Look Back in Anger (1958)
The Entertainer (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (aka Rebel with a Cause) (1962)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Loved One (1965)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Hamlet (1969)
Laughter in the Dark (1969)
Ned Kelly (1970)
The Border (1982)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
The Phantom of the Opera (1990)
Blue Sky (1994)
References
^ Tony Richardson Biography (1928-1991)
^ John Osborne: A Patriot for Us by John Heilpern, Chatto & Windus, 2006 ISBN 978-0-70116-780-7, pp.346-51. The basic issue was Osborne's unwillingness to go through the rewrite process, more arduous in film than it is in the theatre.
External links
Tony Richardson at the Internet Movie Database
BFI: Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson at Find A Grave
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
David Lean
for Lawrence of Arabia
Academy Award for Best Director
1963
for Tom Jones
Succeeded by
George Cukor
for My Fair Lady
v • d • e
Academy Award for Best Director
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961) · David Lean (1962) · Tony Richardson (1963) · George Cukor (1964) · Robert Wise (1965) · Fred Zinnemann (1966) · Mike Nichols (1967) · Carol Reed (1968) · John Schlesinger (1969) · Franklin Schaffner (1970) · William Friedkin (1971) · Bob Fosse (1972) · George Roy Hill (1973) · Francis Ford Coppola (1974) · Miloš Forman (1975) · John G. Avildsen (1976) · Woody Allen (1977) · Michael Cimino (1978) · Robert Benton (1979) · Robert Redford (1980)
Complete List · (1927–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)
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Categories: English film directors | English film producers | BAFTA winners (people) | Best Director Academy Award winners | People from Shipley, West Yorkshire | LGBT directors | LGBT people from England | Old Ashvillians | 1928 births | 1991 deaths | AIDS-related deaths in California
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