Anthony Harvey
British film director and editor

Anthony Harvey

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British film director and editor
Gender:
Male
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United KingdomGreat Britain
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Film directorFilm editor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
3 June 1931(London, Greater London, London, England)
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Anthony Harvey (born 3 June 1931) is a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor and moved into directing in the mid-1960s. Harvey has fifteen film credits as an editor, and he has directed thirteen films. The second film that Harvey directed, The Lion in Winter (1968), earned him a Directors Guild of America Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Directing.

Awards

  • Nominee, Best Director - Academy Awards (The Lion in Winter)
  • Nominee, Best Director - Golden Globes (The Lion in Winter)
  • Winner, Best Director - Directors Guild of America (The Lion in Winter)
  • Nominee, Best Director-TV Movie - Directors Guild of America (The Glass Menagerie)
  • Nominee, Golden Lion - Venice Film Festival (Dutchman)
  • Nominee, Golden Lion - Venice Film Festival (Richard's Things)
  • Nominee, Best Director-TV Movie - Directors Guild of America (The Patricia Neal Story)
  • Nominee, Golden Hugo (Best Picture) - Chicago International Film Festival (Grace Quigley)

Selected filmography

Directing

  • Dutchman (1966)
  • The Lion in Winter (1968)
  • They Might Be Giants (1971)
  • A Glimpse of Tiger (1971, abandoned)
  • The Glass Menagerie (1973, TV)
  • The Abdication (1974)
  • The Disappearance of Aimee (1976, TV)
  • Eagle's Wing (1979)
  • Players (1979)
  • Richard's Things (1980)
  • Svengali (1983, TV)
  • Grace Quigley (1985)
  • This Can't Be Love (1994, TV)

Editing

The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

  • Private's Progress (Boulting, 1956)
  • Tread Softly Stranger (Parry, 1958)
  • I'm All Right Jack (Boulting, 1959)
  • The Millionairess (Asquith, 1960)
  • The Angry Silence (Green, 1960)
  • The L-Shaped Room (Forbes, 1962)
  • Lolita (Kubrick, 1962)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Ritt, 1965)
  • The Whisperers (Forbes, 1967)
  • Dutchman (1967)