Schlesinger, John Richard
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▪ 2004
British director (b. Feb. 16, 1926, London, Eng.—d. July 25, 2003, Palm Springs, Calif.), won a best director Academy Award for his first American film,
Midnight Cowboy (1969), which also was the only X-rated film to win the best picture Oscar. Considered one of the directors of British New Wave social realism, he had already made his mark with such films as
Billy Liar (1963),
Darling (1965), and
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and
following Midnight Cowboy he alternated between Britain and the U.S., counting
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and
Marathon Man (1976) among his more successful later efforts. Schlesinger also directed for television and the theatre. He was made CBE in 1970.
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