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. McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson, Never Apologize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lindsay Anderson is the 486th most popular film director (up from 542nd in 2019), the 342nd most popular biography from India (up from 347th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lindsay Anderson ranks 486 out of 2,041. Before him are Neil Jordan, Maurice Pialat, Norman Taurog, Tom McCarthy, Ladislao Vajda, and Claude Zidi. After him are Pierre Woodman, Andre DeToth, Gérard Oury, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Alain Corneau, and Walter Ruttmann.

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Among people born in 1923, Lindsay Anderson ranks 146. Before him are Bert Kaempfert, Hjalmar Andersen, Svetozar Gligorić, Achille Silvestrini, Estelle Getty, and Inge Morath. After him are Onofre Marimón, Cheikh Anta Diop, Carl Djerassi, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Peter Lawford, and Wes Montgomery. Among people deceased in 1994, Lindsay Anderson ranks 130. Before him are Haim Bar-Lev, Vitas Gerulaitis, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Branko Mikulić, Jiří Sobotka, and Barry Sullivan. After him are Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Enrique Líster, Giovanni Goria, Alexander Shelepin, Dean Rusk, and Vazgen I.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lindsay Anderson ranks 342 out of 1,861. Before him are Velu Nachiyar (1730), Kalpana Chawla (1961), Asima Chatterjee (1917), Liaquat Ali Khan (1895), Amrapali (-450), and Sikandar Jah (1768). After him are Narayana Guru (1855), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Inayat Khan (1882), Eknath (1533), Mala Sinha (1936), and Rani Durgavati (1524).

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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), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), and Michael Radford (1946). After him are B. R. Chopra (1914), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Shyam Benegal (1934), Dara Singh (1928), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), S. Shankar (1963), and Guru Dutt (1925).

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