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Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s.
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British director and producer of films such as The French Lieutenant's Woman, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and Morgan!. He also wrote a book on film editing and was the head of a distribution company.
- January 1, 1
- Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
Karel Reisz, an influential figure in British cinema’s new-realism movement whose best-known work as a director includes “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” “Isadora” and “The French...
Nov 27, 2002 · Karel Reisz, the Czech-born director who became a pioneer of the Free Cinema movement in 50s and 60s Britain, has died in London aged 76. Reisz made his reputation with his revolutionary...
Nov 28, 2002 · Karel Reisz, a Czech refugee who became a leading director of the British New Wave before making ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and other Hollywood...
Karel Reisz was a Czech-born British director and producer of the 'British New Wave'. He made films such as The French Lieutenant's Woman, Morgan! and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and directed three Oscar-nominated actresses.
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Born in Czechoslovakia in 1926, educated there until the German invasion, when his parents sent him to the UK, where he went to a Quaker school along with his brother; at the age of 17 joined the Czech air force, sent on a short course (six months) held at Cambridge, got his wings three weeks before the end of the war.