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Karel Reisz (1926–2002)

Director | Producer

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He wrote his famous book, "The Technique Of Film Editing", before becoming involved in professional film-making. It was reviewed - not entirely favorably - in the magazine "Sight And Sound" by an actual film editor, Seth Holt. When Reisz made his first feature film, "Saturday Night And Sunday Morning"... See more trivia »

Born:

in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Died:

(age 76) in London, England, UK
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Filmography

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2000 Act Without Words I (TV short)
 
1994 Performance (TV series)
– The Deep Blue Sea (1994)
 
1990 Everybody Wins
 
1985 Sweet Dreams
 
1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman
 
1978 Who'll Stop the Rain
 
1974 The Gambler
 
1968 Isadora
 
1966 Morgan!
 
1964 Night Must Fall
 
1961 March to Aldermaston (documentary short)
 
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
 
1958 We Are the Lambeth Boys (documentary)
 
1955 Momma Don't Allow (documentary short)
 
Show ShowProducer (6 titles)
1964 Night Must Fall (producer)
 
1963 This Sporting Life (producer)
 
1961 March to Aldermaston (documentary short) (assistant producer)
 
1959 I Want to Go to School (documentary short) (producer)
 
1958 Band Wagon (short) (producer)
 
1957 Every Day Except Christmas (documentary short) (producer)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1965 Dream A40 (short) (thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (4 titles)
2002 The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment (documentary)
 
1993 Hollywood U.K. (TV series documentary)
Himself - Contributor
– Northern Lights (1993) … Himself - Contributor
 
1978 Robert Vas Film-maker (TV movie)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
2007 British Film Forever (TV mini-series documentary)
 

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Personal Details

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Biography: "The Later Films of William Wyler", 1951. See more »

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Personal Quote:

[on Fred Astaire] Astaire is the motherless man-about-town, all sophistication quite debonair, yet with a lope in his walk rather than a swagger, for -- despite his receding hair -- he is essentially boyish, youthful, innocent. See more »

Trivia:

He wrote his famous book, "The Technique Of Film Editing", before becoming involved in professional film-making. It was reviewed - not entirely favorably - in the magazine "Sight And Sound" by an actual film editor, Seth Holt. When Reisz made his first feature film, "Saturday Night And Sunday Morning"... See more »

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Cancer