Tony Richardson

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Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson, who died on June 1928 – November 14, 1991, was an English filmmaker.

He was best known for his directorial work, Tom Jones (1963), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director; The Hotel New Hampshire (1984); and his final film, Blue Sky (1994).

Early life

Richardson was born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans (Campion) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist. He was Head Boy at Ashville College in Harrogate, and he attended Wadham College, Oxford University. Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson, and Gavin Lambert were among his Oxford contemporaries. In addition to being the theatre critic for the university journal Isis, he had the honour of being both the President of both the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the Experimental Theatre Club (the ETC). Shirley Williams (as Cordelia), John Schlesinger, Nigel Davenport, and Robert Robinson were among those he starred in his student productions.

Personal life

Richardson was married to English actress Vanessa Redgrave from 1962 to 1967. Natasha (1963–2009) and Joely Richardson (born 1965), then he left Redgrave for French actress and singer Jeanne Moreau. He had a relationship with Grizelda Grimond, who was a secretary for Richardson's former business associate Oscar Lewenstein and the daughter of British politician Jo Grimond in 1972. Katharine Grimond, the Grimonds' daughter, was born on January 8, 1973.

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Career

Richardson produced The Apollo of Bellac on television with Denholm Elliott and Natasha Parry in the principal roles in 1955, in his directing debut. He started to be involved in Britain's Free Cinema movement around the same time as co-directing the non-fiction short Momma Don't Allow (also 1955) with Karel Reisz.

He and his close friend George Goetschius and George Devine were involved in the establishment of the English Stage Company as part of the British "New Wave" of directors. He produced Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre, and in the same period he directed Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, John Osborne directed Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre. Laurence Olivier was directed as Archie Rice in Osborne's next play The Entertainer, which is also for the Royal Court in 1957.

Richardson co-founded Woodfall Film Productions in 1959 with John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman, and as Woodfall's first feature film, Look Back in Anger (1959), his first feature film. The Entertainer (1960), A Taste of Honey (1961), and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), based on Alan Sillitoe's book, were both produced there.

Many of Richardson's films, including A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, were part of the fabled kitchen sink revival movement in the United Kingdom, and several of his films are still in existence, and many of his films are still popular, and others are still held as pillars of the movement.

Richardson received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for his 1964 film based on Henry Fielding's novel.

He directed The Loved One (1965), a film in which he worked with established actors, including John Gield, Rod Steiger, and Robert Morse, and spent time in Hollywood both on location and on the sound stage. He confessed in his autobiography that he did not reveal Haskell Wexler's general admiration, although he worked on The Loved One as both director of photography and a producer.

Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Bradley Welles, Milton Berle, Trevor Howard, David Hemmings, Nicol Williamson, Nicol Williamson, Tom Courtenay, Marianne Faithfull, Joshua Hart, Seth Green, Tommy Lee Jones, and Judi Dench were among Richardson's directing credits. Antoine Duhamel, John Addison, and Shel Silverstein, among his musical composers, were Shel Silverstein. Jean Genet, Christopher Isherwood, Terry Southern, Marguerite Duras, Edward Bond (adapting Vladimir Nabokov) and Edward Albee were among his screenwriters. During the production of the film Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Richardson and Osborne were eventually dropped out. The basic issue was Osborne's inability to go through the rewrite process, which is more difficult in film than in the theatre. Richardson's version was a different one. Osborne was furious about being transferred in a small capacity by Laurence Harvey to whom the suppliers had obligations, according to his autobiography (p. 195). In his play In The Hotel in Amsterdam, Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson, a domineering and arrogant figure feared by everybody.

Richardson's career was a mixture of stylistic styles. Mademoiselle (1966) was shot noir-style on location in rural France with a fixed camera, monochrome film stock, and no music. Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) was part of an epic and part animated film. Ned Kelly (1970) was what could be described as an Aussie-western. Psychodramas such as Laughter in the Dark (1969) and A Delicate Balance (1973) were psychodramas. Joseph Andrews (1977), based on another Henry Fielding book, was a return to Tom Jones' mood.

Richardson was supposed to direct a film about Vaslav Nijinsky with a script by Edward Albee in 1970. Rudolf Nureyev had intended to perform Nijinsky, Claude Jade, as Romola and Paul Scofield, but producer Harry Saltzman cancelled the project during pre-production.

In 1974, he moved to Los Angeles to work on a script (never produced) with Sam Shepard and took up residence there. He began working on Mahogany (1975), starring Diana Ross, but was fired by Motown head Berry Gordy shortly after production began, owing to creative differences.

He wrote and directed The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), based on John Irving's book of the same name and starring Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, and Rob Lowe. Despite the fact that the film was a box-office failure, it received a strong critical response.

Richardson made four more major films before his death. Blue Sky (1994), his last work, was not announced for nearly three years after he died. Jessica Lange received a Best Actress Award for her role in the film.

Richardson sponsored the escape of spy and double agent George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966.

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