FILM DIRECTOR

Anthony Harvey

1930 - 2017

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Anthony Harvey (3 June 1930 – 23 November 2017) was an English filmmaker who began his career as a teenage actor, was a film editor in the 1950s, and moved into directing in the mid-1960s. Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films, the second of which, The Lion in Winter (1968), earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Harvey's career is also notable for his recurring work with a number of leading actors and directors including Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, Nick Nolte, the Boulting Brothers, Anthony Asquith, Bryan Forbes and Stanley Kubrick. He died in November 2017 at the age of 87. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Harvey is the 1,229th most popular film director (down from 881st in 2019), the 4,461st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,034th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Anthony Harvey ranks 1,229 out of 2,041. Before him are Daniel Mann, Travis Knight, Richard Kelly, Peter Del Monte, Vadim Perelman, and Walter Murch. After him are Férid Boughedir, Mario Mattoli, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Kurt Hoffmann, Monte Hellman, and Jiří Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Anthony Harvey ranks 486. Before him are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Bernard Collomb, Suat Mamat, Nathan Zach, Antonio Cubillo, and Paul-Émile de Souza. After him are Federico Vairo, Darío Jara Saguier, Michel Deguy, Kenneth Frampton, José Luis Artetxe, and Francesco Maselli. Among people deceased in 2017, Anthony Harvey ranks 447. Before him are Fernand Decanali, Alain Jessua, Sam Panopoulos, Niels Helveg Petersen, Marina Ratner, and Aleksei Petrenko. After him are Václav Machek, Dieter Kottysch, Glenne Headly, Kim Joo-hyuk, Adolph Kiefer, and Paul Falk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Harvey ranks 4,462 out of 8,785. Before him are Noah Taylor (1969), Kunal Nayyar (1981), Raymond Gosling (1926), Jonathan Palmer (1956), Ian Botham (1955), and Andrew Wakefield (1957). After him are Kate O'Mara (1939), Charlotte Lewis (1967), George Chapman (1559), Dorothy Manley (1927), Harry Blackstaffe (1868), and Vivian Campbell (1962).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Anthony Harvey ranks 93. Before him are Mark Herman (1954), Gerry Anderson (1929), Nick Park (1958), Basil Dearden (1911), Freddie Francis (1917), and John Grierson (1898). After him are Peter R. Hunt (1925), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), Tony Kaye (1952), Michael Caton-Jones (1957), Paul McGuigan (1963), and Simon West (1961).

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