John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE, was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger was born in London, into a middle class Jewish family. His acting career began in the 1950s and consisted of supporting roles in British films and television productions. He began his directorial career in 1956 with the short documentary Sunday in the Park about London's Hyde Park. In 1958, Schlesinger created a documentary on Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival for the BBC's Monitor TV programme, including rehearsals of the children's opera Noye's Fludde featuring a young Michael Crawford. By the 1960s, he had virtually given up acting to concentrate on a directing career, and another of his earlier directorial efforts, the British Transport Films' documentary Terminus (1961), gained a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. His first two fiction films, A Kind of Loving (1962) and Billy Liar (1963) were set in the North of England. A Kind of Loving won the Golden Bear award at the 12th Berlinale in 1962. His third feature film, Darling (1965), tartly described the modern, urban way of life in London and was one of the first films about 'swinging London'. Schlesinger's next film was the period drama Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's popular novel accentuated by beautiful English country locations. Both films (and Billy Liar) featured Julie Christie as the female lead. Schlesinger's next film, Midnight Cowboy (1969), was internationally acclaimed. A story of two hustlers living on the fringe in the bad side of New York City, it was Schlesinger's first film shot in the US, and it won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. During the 1970s, he made an array of films that were mainly about loners, losers and people outside the clean world, such as Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Marathon Man (1976) and Yanks (1979). Later, came the major box office and critical failure of Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), followed by films that attracted mixed responses from the public From 1973, he was an associate director of the Royal National Theatre, where he produced George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1975). He also directed several operas, beginning with Les contes d'Hoffmann (1980) and Der Rosenkavalier (1984), both at Covent Garden. Schlesinger was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to film in 1970. In 2003, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.

  • Titulu: John Schlesinger
  • Popularità: 6.492
  • Cunnisciutu per: Directing
  • Anniversariu: 1926-02-16
  • Locu di nascita: London, England, UK
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  • Cunnisciutu ancu cum'è: 존 슐레진저
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John Schlesinger I filmi

  • 1992
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    The Lost Language of Cranes

    The Lost Language of Cranes

    6.2 1992 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Big Screen

    The Big Screen

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Battle of the River Plate

    The Battle of the River Plate

    6.2 1956 HD

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  • 1998
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    Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

    Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1973
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    Visions of Eight

    Visions of Eight

    7 1973 HD

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  • 1949
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    Black Legend

    Black Legend

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Twilight of the Golds

    The Twilight of the Golds

    5.8 1996 HD

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  • 1996
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    The Celluloid Closet

    The Celluloid Closet

    7.155 1996 HD

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  • 1990
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    Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

    Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

    6.3 1990 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Crowd Around the Cowboy

    The Crowd Around the Cowboy

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Last Man to Hang

    The Last Man to Hang

    5.2 1956 HD

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  • 1965
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    Darling

    Darling

    6.7 1965 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

    The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1963
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    Billy Liar

    Billy Liar

    6.9 1963 HD

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  • 1961
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    Terminus

    Terminus

    7 1961 HD

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  • 1957
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    Brothers in Law

    Brothers in Law

    7.1 1957 HD

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  • 1958
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    Stormy Crossing

    Stormy Crossing

    4.8 1958 HD

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  • 1990
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    Pacific Heights

    Pacific Heights

    6.2 1990 HD

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  • 1954
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    The Divided Heart

    The Divided Heart

    6.7 1954 HD

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  • 1967
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    Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

    Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    Speaking of Britain

    Speaking of Britain

    1 1967 HD

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  • 2000
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    The Next Best Thing

    The Next Best Thing

    5.3 2000 HD

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  • 1990
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    Pacific Heights

    Pacific Heights

    6.2 1990 HD

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  • 1976
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    Marathon Man

    Marathon Man

    7.2 1976 HD

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  • 1969
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    Midnight Cowboy

    Midnight Cowboy

    7.5 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Far from the Madding Crowd

    6.8 1967 HD

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  • 1979
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    Yanks

    Yanks

    6 1979 HD

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  • 1975
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    The Day of the Locust

    The Day of the Locust

    6.3 1975 HD

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  • 1965
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    Darling

    Darling

    6.7 1965 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Believers

    The Believers

    6 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Believers

    The Believers

    6 1987 HD

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  • 1962
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    A Kind of Loving

    A Kind of Loving

    7 1962 HD

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  • 1995
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    Cold Comfort Farm

    Cold Comfort Farm

    6.7 1995 HD

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  • 1963
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    Billy Liar

    Billy Liar

    6.9 1963 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Falcon and the Snowman

    The Falcon and the Snowman

    6.44 1985 HD

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  • 1996
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    Eye for an Eye

    Eye for an Eye

    6.1 1996 HD

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  • 1971
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    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    6.6 1971 HD

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  • 1961
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    Terminus

    Terminus

    7 1961 HD

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  • 1961
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    Terminus

    Terminus

    7 1961 HD

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  • 1981
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    Honky Tonk Freeway

    Honky Tonk Freeway

    5.1 1981 HD

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  • 1973
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    Visions of Eight

    Visions of Eight

    7 1973 HD

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  • 1993
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    The Innocent

    The Innocent

    6.1 1993 HD

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  • 1983
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    An Englishman Abroad

    An Englishman Abroad

    5.9 1983 HD

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  • 1991
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    A Question of Attribution

    A Question of Attribution

    6.6 1991 HD

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  • 1983
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    Separate Tables

    Separate Tables

    6.3 1983 HD

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  • 1988
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    Madame Sousatzka

    Madame Sousatzka

    6.5 1988 HD

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  • 1988
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    Madame Sousatzka

    Madame Sousatzka

    6.5 1988 HD

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  • 1998
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    The Tale of Sweeney Todd

    The Tale of Sweeney Todd

    5.7 1998 HD

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  • 1957
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    Wakes Week in Blackburn

    Wakes Week in Blackburn

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Falcon and the Snowman

    The Falcon and the Snowman

    6.44 1985 HD

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  • 1981
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    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    6.6 1981 HD

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  • 1985
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    Der Rosenkavalier

    Der Rosenkavalier

    7.5 1985 HD

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  • 1990
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    Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

    Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2016
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    The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann

    The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann

    1 2016 HD

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  • 1949
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    Black Legend

    Black Legend

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1949
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    Black Legend

    Black Legend

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1949
    imgI filmi

    Black Legend

    Black Legend

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1965
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    Darling

    Darling

    6.7 1965 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Starfish

    The Starfish

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Starfish

    The Starfish

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Starfish

    The Starfish

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1956
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    Sunday in the Park

    Sunday in the Park

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Sunday in the Park

    Sunday in the Park

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Sunday in the Park

    Sunday in the Park

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1958
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    Ivanhoe

    Ivanhoe

    6.3 1958 HD

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

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  • 1956
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    Colonel March of Scotland Yard

    Colonel March of Scotland Yard

    7.3 1956 HD

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  • 1955
    imgS4 E26

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Buccaneers

    The Buccaneers

    6 1956 HD

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  • 1993
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    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1974
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    Flick Flack

    Flick Flack

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1944
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    Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

    6.8 1944 HD

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