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Date of Birth

17 April 1923, Bangalore, India (now Bangalore, Karnataka, India)

Date of Death

30 August 1994, Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France (heart attack)

Birth Name

Lindsay Gordon Anderson

Trivia

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 45-55. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1971 Tony Award as Best Director (Dramatic) for David Storey's "Home."

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1986.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1966.

Personal Quotes

I suppose I'm the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all about he had fled. The trouble is I don't know whether the boy was a hero or a bloody idiot.

[speaking in 1986] The modern perception of British cinema has nothing to do with British films - merely with the business of getting more money through the box office.

[speaking at age 61] In the morning I feel about 50; then, depending on how the day goes, I might get down to about 22. When I'm directing on stage, I'm 43 and 32 when making a film because I feel less in control. Acting? Oh, then I'm 24. And when I'm on my own, I feel about 17 and think the world is all before me.

To make a film is to create a world.

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