Biography for
Tony Richardson (I)

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Date of Birth

5 June 1928, Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Date of Death

14 November 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA (AIDS)

Birth Name

Cecil Antonio Richardson

Spouse

Vanessa Redgrave

(1962 - 1967) 2 daughters

Trivia

Father of Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson.

In 1970 he planned to make a film about the dancer Nijinskij, with Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev and French actress Claude Jade, but it was never released.

Directed 7 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Joyce Redman and Jessica Lange. Lange won for Blue Sky (1994).

One of the British "New Wave" directors.

Father-in-law of actor Liam Neeson. Former father-in-law of producer Tim Bevan.

Companion at the time of his death was Jeanne Moreau.

Ex-wife Vanessa Redgrave named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in their 1967 divorce on grounds of adultery.

Personal Quotes

"It's no exaggeration to say that the 'sequence' group changed the whole way of feeling and thinking about film in England - at any rate for a few inspiring years, before the British sank once again into complacency and philistinism."

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