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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: June 5, 1928 in Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK Death: November 14, 1991 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:A graduate of Oxford, "Tony Richardson" rose from head of the university's dramatic society to the pinnacle of the British film industry during the early 1960s, scoring several theatrical successes as a director along the way, most notably "Look Back In Anger," by John Osborne, with whom Richardson would enjoy a long professional relationship. The play became Richardson's feature-film debut, and established him as the first of a new wave of directors who would take over British cinema during the early and mid 1960s -- his subsequent movies, including "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962) and, more notably, "Tom Jones" (1963), established him as that rarity among British filmmakers up to that time. He was considered a successful iconoclast, challenging his audience and dazzling them as well with his creative camera work and inventiveness. Unfortunately, Richardson's 1968 reworking of "The... Full Biography
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