Anthony Harvey
British film director and film editor (1930-2017) · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Died at 87
Anthony Harvey was an English filmmaker who began his career as a teenage actor, was a film editor in the 1950s, and moved into directing in the mid-1960s.
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Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'Film2000
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to StrangeloveFilm1996
Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own TermsFilm1994
This Can't Be LoveFilm, Director1983
SvengaliFilm, Director1981
The Patricia Neal StoryFilm, Director1980
Richard's ThingsFilm, Director1979
Eagle's WingFilm, Director1976
The Disappearance of AimeeFilm, Director1974
The AbdicationFilm, Director1971Film '72Series
They Might Be GiantsFilm, 1971Director1968
The Lion in WinterFilm, Director1966
DutchmanFilm, Director1945
Caesar and CleopatraFilm, Ptolemy1930Born3 June 1930People around Anthony
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Katharine Hepburn Anthony directed The Lion in Winter (1968)
Peter O'Toole Anthony directed The Lion in Winter and Svengali
Liv Ullmann Anthony directed The Abdication (1974)
Sam Waterston Anthony directed The Glass Menagerie (1973)
John Castle Anthony directed The Lion in Winter (1968)
Jane Merrow Anthony directed The Lion in Winter (1968)
Anthony Hopkins Anthony directed The Lion in Winter (1968)
Jodie Foster Anthony directed Svengali (1983)
Jason Bateman Anthony directed This Can't Be Love (1994)
Anthony Quinn Anthony directed This Can't Be Love (1994)
Maximilian Schell Anthony directed Players (1980)
Faye Dunaway Anthony directed The Disappearance of Aimee (1976)
Timothy Dalton Anthony directed The Lion in Winter (1968)
Holly Hunter Anthony directed Svengali (1983)
Martin Sheen Anthony directed Eagle's Wing (1979)
Nick Nolte Anthony directed Grace Quigley (1985)
Joanne Woodward Anthony directed They Might Be Giants (1971)
Harvey Keitel Anthony directed Eagle's Wing (1979)
George C. Scott Anthony directed They Might Be Giants (1971)
Peter Finch Anthony directed The Abdication (1974)
Michael Moriarty Anthony directed The Glass Menagerie (1973)
Cyril Cusack Anthony directed The Abdication (1974)- Gabriel Pascal Produced Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
- Kenneth Griffith Anthony directed The Lion in Winter (1968)
Known for
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The Lion in Winter 1968
They Might Be Giants 1971
Caesar and Cleopatra 1945
Filmography 18
33 credits on file
Television 1
Awards
About this person
Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films, the second of which, The Lion in Winter (1968), earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Harvey's career is also notable for his recurring work with a number of leading actors and directors including Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, Nick Nolte, the Boulting Brothers, Anthony Asquith, Bryan Forbes and Stanley Kubrick. He died in November 2017 at the age of 87.
