John Schlesinger
Directing
Born February 16, 1926 in London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Self (archive footage)
The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann
The Next Best Thing
The Tale of Sweeney Todd
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
The Twilight of the Golds
Dr. Adrian Lodge
The Celluloid Closet
Self
Eye for an Eye
Cold Comfort Farm
The Innocent
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
The Lost Language of Cranes
Derek Moulthorp
A Question of Attribution
Pacific Heights
Man in Elevator (uncredited)
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Self
Screen One
Madame Sousatzka
The Believers
Der Rosenkavalier
The Falcon and the Snowman
An Englishman Abroad
Separate Tables
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Honky Tonk Freeway
Yanks
Marathon Man
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Self
The Day of the Locust
Flick Flack
Visions of Eight
Narrator
The Big Screen
Self
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Midnight Cowboy
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Self
Far from the Madding Crowd
Days in the Trees
Darling
Theatre Director (uncredited)
The Wednesday Play
Billy Liar
Officer in Dream (uncredited)
A Kind of Loving
Terminus
Passenger (uncredited)
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
The Four Just Men
Stormy Crossing
Mechanic
Monitor
Ivanhoe
Jack Ludlow
Seven Thunders
German Soldier
Wakes Week in Blackburn
Brothers in Law
Assize Court Solicitor
The Battle of the River Plate
Lieutenant, Graf Spee (uncredited)
The Buccaneers
Pigtail
The Last Man to Hang
Dr. Goldfinger
Sunday in the Park
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Hale
The Divided Heart
Ticket Collector
The Starfish
Sunday Night Theatre
Amiens
Black Legend
The Judge
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee