Midnight Cowboy
1969
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John Richard Schlesinger CBE (/ ˈ ʃ l ɛ s ɪ n dʒ ər / SHLESS-in-jər; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.
John Schlesinger. Director: Midnight Cowboy. 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.
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- Hampstead, London, England, UK
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- Palm Springs, California, USA
Apr 24, 2024 · John Schlesinger (born February 16, 1926, London, England—died July 25, 2003, Palm Springs, California, U.S.) was an English film director known for a wide variety of sensitively told stories set in his homeland and in the United States.
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John Schlesinger. Director: Midnight Cowboy. 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.
- February 16, 1926
- July 25, 2003
Although highly controversial at the time, British director John Schlesinger’s daring, unconventional but primarily profoundly moving and honest film Midnight Cowboy managed to ride its way to the very top in 1969, despite all conceivable odds.
Jul 25, 2003 · John Schlesinger, the Academy Award-winning director of "Midnight Cowboy," often captured the plight of individuals grasping for life support in contemporary society.
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Now, in "Day of the Locust" Schlesinger has one of his most cut-off characters of all: An aloof, painfully shy young man whose doom is to fall in love with a would-be starlet whose personality has been so completely shaped by the movies that without them she'd be a void.
