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Lindsay Anderson

(1923-1994), Film, television and stage director

Lindsay Gordon Anderson

Sitter in 9 portraits
Stage and film director. Anderson began his career as a film critic. Anderson became a forceful member of George Devine's team at the Royal Court Theatre from 1957. He directed a number of plays during this period including Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) and the play he co-authored with Richard Harris, The Diary of a Madman (1963); This Sporting Life (1963) in the realist tradition preceded the satiric trilogy, ruthless in its attack on British Society: Iif... (1968), O! Lucky Man (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982).

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Lindsay Anderson

by Lewis Morley
bromide print, 1960
NPG P512(1)

Lindsay Anderson

by J.S. Lewinski
bromide print, April 1970
NPG P1042

Lindsay Anderson

by Lord Snowdon
gelatin silver print, 6 April 1982
NPG P1846

Lindsay Anderson

by Alastair Thain
bromide print, 1985
NPG P319

Lindsay Anderson

by Roger Mayne
bromide print on card mount, 1958
NPG x4058

Lindsay Anderson; Zoe Caldwell

by Lewis Morley
resin print, 1960
NPG x125153

Lindsay Anderson

by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 14 January 1970
NPG x163617

Lindsay Anderson

by Callum Bibby
bromide fibre print, 1984
NPG x32601

Lindsay Anderson

by Liam Woon
semi-matte bromide print, June 1985
NPG x25120

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