Midnight Cowboy
1969
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Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger, who was born in London, on February 16, 1926, was the eldest child in a solidly middle-class Jewish family. Berbard Schlesinger, his father, was a pediatrician, and his mother, Winifred, was a musician. He served in the Army in the Far East during World War II.
Apr 4, 2022 · Where to begin with John Schlesinger. Sixty years after the release of his debut feature, the kitchen-sink classic A Kind of Loving, we plot a course through the career of John Schlesinger, the Oscar-winning British director of Billy Liar and Midnight Cowboy. 4 April 2022.
Jul 25, 2003 · July 25, 2003. John Schlesinger, the Academy Award-winning director of "Midnight Cowboy" whose other films — including "Billy Liar," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" and "Darling" — often captured the...
Jul 26, 2003 · John Schlesinger. Generous and energetic film director whose reputation was enhanced by Hollywood success but damaged by dire commercial flops. Brian Baxter. Sat 26 Jul 2003 04.52 EDT. Asked...
Roger Ebert May 18, 1975. Tweet. The kinds of films he likes to make are just the ones the studios are most wary about, John Schlesinger was complaining. And so he spends too much time turning down nice, tidy commercial subjects and trying to get, his latest dreams off the ground.
John Schlesinger, (born Feb. 16, 1926, London, Eng.—died July 25, 2003, Palm Springs, Calif., U.S.), British film and theatre director. He worked as an actor before becoming a documentary director for BBC television, where he won praise for his Terminus (1960).
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.
