John Schlesinger

✶February 16, 1926

†July 25, 2003

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About their life

John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and theatre director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing with provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.

English film and theatre director (1926–2003)

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Biography from the article John Schlesinger on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.