Ballet Master

Lindsay Anderson

British feature-film, theatre and documentary director and film critic (1923-1994)

Born 1923 · BengaluruDied 1994United Kingdom

Lindsay Anderson was a British ballet master, born in 1923 in Bengaluru, who died in 1994.

Biography

Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was an English filmmaker, theatre director, critic, and actor. He was considered a leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave, and a principal exponent of kitchen sink realism on both the stage and screen.

As a film director, he is best known for his "Mick Travis Trilogy" of films starring Malcolm McDowell, the first of which, if.... (1968), won the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival and earned Anderson a BAFTA nomination for Best Direction. He was also a prominent stage director, both at the Royal Court Theatre and at the West End.

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