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Cecil Antonio Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director, producer and screenwriter, whose career spanned five decades. He was identified with the "angry young men" group of British directors and playwrights during the 1950s, and was later a key figure in the British New Wave filmmaking movement. [1]
Tony Richardson (born June 5, 1928, Shipley, Yorkshire, England—died November 14, 1991, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an English theatrical and motion-picture director whose experimental productions stimulated a renewal of creative vitality on the British stage during the 1950s.
Tony Richardson. Director: A Taste of Honey. The son of a Shipley chemist he was initially connected with the stage first with the post war Shipley Young Theatre then with the Bradford Civic Theatre where he came into contact with the Bradford born author J B Priestley who recognising his potential commissioned him to write a TV documentary ...
Jun 27, 2018 · RICHARDSON, Tony. Nationality: British. Born: Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, 5 June 1928. Education: Wadham College, Oxford University, degree in English, 1952. Family: Married actress Vanessa Redgrave, 1962 (divorced 1967); three daughters, actresses Natasha and Joely, and Katherine Grimond.
Nov 15, 1991 · Oscar-winning British director Tony Richardson, one of England’s Angry Young Men of the 1950s, died Thursday in Los Angeles of complications of AIDS, his publicist said. Richardson, 63, died at...
Nov 16, 1991 · Tony Richardson, who won an Oscar for the film "Tom Jones," died yesterday at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 63 years old.
Born in Britain, the acclaimed director Tony Richardson pursued his passion for the arts after graduating from Oxford University. He began his career as a theater director and producer for the BBC. Free Cinema Movement. Richardson became a central figure in the "Free Cinema" movement, championing a style he termed "poetic naturalism."
Nov 14, 1991 · Biography. Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English filmmaker. He won two Academy Awards for directing and producing comedy film Tom Jones (1963).
Richardson died from AIDS-related causes in Los Angeles on 14 November 1991. The manuscript of his entertaining and illuminating, if unreliable, autobiography was discovered by his actress daughters, Natasha and Joely, on the day of his death, and published posthumously. Bibliography.
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and movie director and producer. His career lasted for fifty years. In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the movie Tom Jones.
