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Filmmaker · England

Lindsay Anderson

Died in 1994

Lindsay Anderson was born in 1923 in Bangalore, the son of a British officer, and was brought up in England in private schools. A critic, he founded a journal in 1947 with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz, then was one of the founders of Free Cinema, in opposition to the academicism of the English cinema of his day; he moved to the fiction feature only in 1963. He also directed plays at the Royal Court, which he co-directed in the late sixties. He died in France, near Angoulême, in 1994.

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