Richardson, Tony

Richardson, Tony
orig. Cecil Antonio Richardson

born June 5, 1928, Shipley, Yorkshire, Eng.
died Nov. 14, 1991, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.

British director.

With the English Stage Co. he won acclaim with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), and he led the company in reinterpreting classic plays and in productions of Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. His experimental productions stimulated a renewal of creative vitality on the British stage during the 1950s. He directed The Entertainer (1958) and A Taste of Honey (1960) on Broadway. He and Osborne formed a film company (1958), which produced screen versions of Osborne's plays as well as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) and Tom Jones (1963, Academy Award). His later films include The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Ned Kelly (1970), and Blue Sky (1993). He was married to Vanessa Redgrave; their daughters, Miranda and Joely Richardson, are both film actresses.

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▪ British director and producer
original name  Cecil Antonio Richardson  
born June 5, 1928, Shipley, Yorkshire, Eng.
died Nov. 14, 1991, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.

      English theatrical and motion-picture director whose experimental productions stimulated a renewal of creative vitality on the British stage during the 1950s.

      In 1953, after graduating from the University of Oxford, where he had been an active member of the dramatic society, Richardson became a director for the British Broadcasting Company. Two years later, he joined the British Stage Company as associate artistic director and was a full director within a year. His reputation was established with his Royal Court Theatre production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), the play that became the representative work of Britain's post-World War II generation of “Angry Young Men.” Under Richardson's leadership the Theatre became a centre of creative activity that not only involved a reinterpretation of the classics but also included the presentation of the experimental plays of Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and other playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. His Broadway productions of Osborne's The Entertainer (1958) and Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey (1960) won popular and critical acclaim. Richardson also directed plays such as Pericles (1958) and a production of Othello (1959) starring the black American singer and actor Paul Robeson at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

      Richardson's first film, Momma Don't Allow, was a short subject. In 1958 he formed Woodfall Film Productions, Ltd., with playwright Osborne. His films dealing with the British urban working class include the screen adaptations of his stage successes Look Back in Anger (1958), The Entertainer (1959), and A Taste of Honey (1961), as well as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), based on the novel by Alan Sillitoe. Richardson also produced Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), directed by Karel Reisz. One of his greatest successes came when he directed Osborne's adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones (1963), a rousing evocation of the crudeness and vigour of 18th-century English life. The film won Academy Awards for best picture, best director, and best screenwriter. Among the films he later directed were The Loved One (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Ned Kelly (1970), A Delicate Balance (1972), and Joseph Andrews (1977). Richardson was married to the actress Vanessa Redgrave from 1962 to 1967.

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