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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 606,789 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Lindsay Anderson is the 487th most popular film director (down from 442nd in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from India (down from 234th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lindsay Anderson ranks 487 out of 1,581. Before him are Patrice Leconte, Aleksandar Petrović, Yves Allégret, Asghar Farhadi, Walter Ruttmann, and Václav Vorlíček. After him are Elio Petri, Seijun Suzuki, Hal Ashby, Néstor Almendros, David Byrne, and Olivier Assayas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Lindsay Anderson ranks 138. Before him are Peter Vaughan, Hans Riegel, Mario Brega, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Onofre Marimón, and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek. After him are Seijun Suzuki, Pahiño, Gordon Mitchell, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Edward Mulhare, and Arthur Hiller. Among people deceased in 1994, Lindsay Anderson ranks 123. Before him are Rossano Brazzi, Vazgen I, Motoo Kimura, Dean Rusk, Elissa Aalto, and Aleksandar Petrović. After him are Massimo Troisi, Olga Rubtsova, Roy J. Plunkett, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Anni Albers, and Zail Singh.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lindsay Anderson ranks 289 out of 1,493. Before him are Jim Corbett (1875), Homi J. Bhabha (1909), Pulakeshin II (610), T. H. White (1906), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), and Asha Bhosle (1933). After him are Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Rishabhanatha (null), Birbal (1528), Rajaram I (1670), Mohammed Rafi (1924), and Dhirubhai Ambani (1932).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Lindsay Anderson ranks 5. Before him are Satyajit Ray (1921), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), and Dadasaheb Phalke (1870). After him are Dara Singh (1928), Ismail Merchant (1936), Ardeshir Irani (1886), Guru Dutt (1925), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914).

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Filmography

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