English film and documentary director.
Born in Bangalore, the son of a British Army officer. Educated at Cheltenham and Oxford. A unresolved and contrary director who made one top-class film, the great 'school' film of the 1960s, If....
Filmography
This Sporting Life (1962), The Singing Lesson (1967), If... (1968), O Lucky Man! (1972), In Celebration (1974), Red White and Zero (1979), Britannia Hospital (1982), The Whales of August (1987)
Documentary and TV
Meet the Pioneers (1948), Idlers that Work (1949), Three Installations (1951), Wakefield Express (1952), Thursday's Child (1953), O Dreamland (1953), Truck Conveyor (1954), Foot and Mouth (1955), A Hundred Thousand Children (1955), The Children Upstairs (1955), Green and Pleasant Land (1955), Henry (1955), £20 a Ton (1955), Energy First (1955), Every Day Except Christmas (1957), March to Aldermaston (1959), The Old Crowd (1979), Glory! Glory! (1989)
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