FILM DIRECTOR

Lindsay Anderson

1923 - 1994

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Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lindsay Anderson has received more than 654,835 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Lindsay Anderson is the 542nd most popular film director (down from 486th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from India (down from 286th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lindsay Anderson ranks 542 out of 2,041. Before him are Philip Kaufman, Paul W. S. Anderson, Hugh Hudson, Olivier Assayas, Dadasaheb Phalke, and Wojciech Has. After him are Henning Carlsen, James Wan, Marcel L'Herbier, Kenneth Anger, Luigi Zampa, and Ralph Bakshi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Lindsay Anderson ranks 158. Before him are Ann Miller, Seijun Suzuki, Shoshana Damari, Onofre Marimón, Holden Roberto, and Albert Vanhoye. After him are Gustavo Rojo, Evelyn McHale, Hjalmar Andersen, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Ahmet Ertegun, and Harrison Dillard. Among people deceased in 1994, Lindsay Anderson ranks 133. Before him are John Edward Williams, Frederick Copleston, Billy Wright, Joe Pass, William Conrad, and Stanisław Maczek. After him are Moana Pozzi, Giovanni Goria, Alexander Shelepin, Elga Andersen, Olga Rubtsova, and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lindsay Anderson ranks 347 out of 1,861. Before him are Jim Corbett (1875), Sanjay Gandhi (1946), Pulakeshin II (610), Guru Hargobind (1595), Bhavabhuti (null), and Dadasaheb Phalke (1870). After him are Kajol (1974), Vijay (1974), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), and Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Lindsay Anderson ranks 6. Before him are Satyajit Ray (1921), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), and Dadasaheb Phalke (1870). After him are Dara Singh (1928), Guru Dutt (1925), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Shyam Benegal (1934), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), and Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941).

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Filmography

if....
Director
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Dec 19th 19687.067 / 10
This Sporting Life
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In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Feb 7th 19636.972 / 10
O Lucky Man!
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An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Mar 25th 19736.804 / 10