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BIRTHDAY

June 05, 1928

Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK

DIED

November 14, 1991

RECENT CREDITS

Ned Kelly (FILM) Mar. 26, 2004

Blue Sky (FILM) Sep. 16, 1994

The Hotel New Hampshire (FILM) Jan. 1, 1984

A Delicate Balance (FILM) Jan. 1, 1973

Hamlet (FILM) Dec. 1, 1969

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BIOGRAPHY

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A graduate of Oxford, Tony Richardson rose from head of the university's dramatic society to the pinnacle of the British film industry during the early 1960s, scoring several theatrical successes as a director along the way, most notably Look Back In Anger, by John Osborne, with whom Richardson would enjoy a long professional relationship. The play became Richardson's feature-film debut, and established him as the first of a new wave of directors who would take over British cinema during the early and mid 1960s -- his subsequent movies, including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) and, more notably, Tom Jones (1963), established him as that rarity among British filmmakers up to that time. He was considered a successful iconoclast, challenging his audience and dazzling them as well with his creative camera work and inventiveness. Unfortunately, Richardson's 1968 reworking of The Charge of the Light Brigade fell flat at the box office, and the commercial/artistic spell was broken. He made several more films, including Ned Kelly (1969), Joseph Andrews (1977), The Border (1982), and Hotel New Hampshire (1984) -- the latter a major disaster for everyone involved -- but none of them caught the public's taste and all seemed to echo finer films from the early 1960s. His daughter Natasha Richardson, ironically enough, achieved stardom on her own during Richardson's final years, when his career -- apart from a recut reissue of Tom Jones -- was in near complete eclipse.

~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

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Natasha Richardson at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair Party held at the State Supreme Courthouse. New York City, USA - 04/22/08

'Cabaret' Stars Pay Tribute to Richardson

Mar. 19, 2009

Actress Natasha Richardson has been honored by director Sam Mendes and actor Alan Cumming, who worked with her during her Tony-winning Broadway run in Cabaret.

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Richardson Dies After Horror Ski Crash

Posted: Mar. 18, 2009

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