Anthony Harvey

Director

About

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

June 03, 1931

Died

November 23, 2017

Biography

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A budding stage and screen actor who switched strides in the late 1940s, Harvey dropped out of RADA and appeared in the feature "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945) before finding work as a film editor. He worked on a number of films directed by the Boulting brothers (e.g., "Private's Progress" 1956, "Happy Is the Bride" 1958) as well as such high profile helmers as Anthony Asquith ("On Such a ...

Filmography

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This Can't Be Love (1994)

Grace Quigley (1985)

Svengali (1983)

An Act of Love: The Patricia Neal Story (1981)

Richard's Things (1981)

Photos & Videos

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Lion In Winter, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) That's What Tapestries Are For

Lion In Winter, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) It's What I Live For

Notes

Harvey was the first director to win the DGA award who did not also win the Oscar.

Biography

A budding stage and screen actor who switched strides in the late 1940s, Harvey dropped out of RADA and appeared in the feature "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945) before finding work as a film editor. He worked on a number of films directed by the Boulting brothers (e.g., "Private's Progress" 1956, "Happy Is the Bride" 1958) as well as such high profile helmers as Anthony Asquith ("On Such a Night" 1955, "The Millionairess" 1960), Bryan Forbes ("The L-Shaped Room" 1962 and "The Whisperers" 1967) and Stanley Kubrick ("Lolita" 1962 and "Dr. Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" 1964). Harvey segued to directing in 1967 and displayed a sure sense of pace and an adept handler of actors with "Dutchman" (1967), starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr, and "The Lion in Winter" (1968), with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Harvey went on to collaborate with Hepburn again on the TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" (ABC, 1973) and the big screen misfire "Grace Quigley" (1985). Harvey's other films have been uneven, at best, although most feature strong performances.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

This Can't Be Love (1994)

Grace Quigley (1985)

Svengali (1983)

An Act of Love: The Patricia Neal Story (1981)

Richard's Things (1981)

Eagle's Wing (1978)

The Disappearance of Aimee (1976)

The Abdication (1974)

The Glass Menagerie (1973)

They Might Be Giants (1971)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Dutchman (1966)

Editing (Feature Film)

The Whisperers (1967)

Dutchman (1966)

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The L-Shaped Room (1963)

The Millionairess (1961)

The Angry Silence (1960)

I'm All Right Jack (1960)

Man in a Cocked Hat (1959)

Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

Happy Is the Bride (1958)

Brothers in Law (1957)

Private's Progress (1956)

On Such a Night (1955)

The Long Memory (1952)

2nd Assistant Editor

Special Thanks (Feature Film)

Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993)

Special Thanks To

Life Events

1945

Debut as film actor "Caesar and Cleopatra"

1949

Worked as film editor; frequently collaborating with the Boulting brothers

1967

Film film as director "Dutchman"

1968

First collaboration with Katharine Hepburn, "The Lion in Winter"

1973

TV directorial debut "The Glass Menagerie", starring Hepburn (in her TV dramatic debut)

1984

Directed Hepburn in the feature "Grace Quigley"

Videos

Lion In Winter, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) That's What Tapestries Are For French king Philip (Timothy Dalton) receives the feuding English princes Geoffrey (John Castle), John (Nigel Terry) and Richard (Anthony Hopkins) as they fight for the crown in The Lion In Winter, 1968, from James Goldman's play and screenplay.

Lion In Winter, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) It's What I Live For Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), freed from prison by her husband for Christmas, makes a desperate land-for-liberty deal with King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) in The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Lion In Winter, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Much Like Our Children King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) jousts with young king Philip (Timothy Dalton) of France, and his sons (Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry, John Castle), Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn) commenting, early in The Lion In Winter, 1968.

Lion In Winter, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Come For Me! Opening scene, King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and his son John (Nigel Terry) with broadswords, Princess Alais (Jane Merrow) singing, then helping frame the story for The Lion In Winter, 1968, from James Goldman's play and screenplay.

Lolita - (Original Trailer) An aging intellectual becomes obsessed with a young teenage girl when he becomes a boarder in her mother's house in Lolita (1962).

L-Shaped Room, The - (U.S. Trailer) An unmarried, pregnant French woman (Leslie Caron) takes up residence in a British boarding house in The L-Shaped Room (1962).

Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The - (Original Trailer) A British agent infiltrates the enemy by allowing himself to be disgraced at home in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.

Family

Morris Harvey

Father

Actor. Adoptive father.

Bibliography

Notes

Harvey was the first director to win the DGA award who did not also win the Oscar.

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