About
John Richard Schlesinger, CBE, was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger was born in London, into a middle class Jewish family. His acting career began in the 1950s and consisted of supporting roles in British films and television productions. He began his directorial career in 1956 with the short documentary Sunday in the Park about London's Hyde Park. In 1958, Schlesinger created a documentary on Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival for the BBC's Monitor TV programme, including rehearsals of the children's opera Noye's Fludde featuring a young Michael Crawford. By the 1960s, he had virtually given up acting to concentrate on a directing career, and another of his earlier directorial efforts, the British Transport Films'...
Known for
The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964
Sunday Night TheatreSeries • 1950
The Adventures of Robin HoodSeries • 1955
Screen OneSeries • 1989
The BuccaneersSeries • 1956
IvanhoeSeries • 1958
Midnight CowboyMovie • 1969
Marathon ManMovie • 1976
Pacific HeightsMovie • 1990
Eye for an EyeMovie • 1996
The Next Best ThingMovie • 2000
The Battle of the River PlateMovie • 1956
The Falcon and the SnowmanMovie • 1985
The BelieversMovie • 1987
YanksMovie • 1979
DarlingMovie • 1965
The Day of the LocustMovie • 1975
Far from the Madding CrowdMovie • 1967
The InnocentMovie • 1993
The Twilight of the GoldsMovie • 1996
Billy LiarMovie • 1963
The Lost Language of CranesMovie • 1992
Madame SousatzkaMovie • 1988
A Kind of LovingMovie • 1962