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John Schlesinger

John Schlesinger

Director · Born 1926-02-16 · London, England, UK

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Biography

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE, was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger was born in London, into a middle class Jewish family. His acting career began in the 1950s and consisted of supporting roles in British films and television productions. He began his directorial career in 1956 with the short documentary Sunday in the Park about London's Hyde Park. In 1958, Schlesinger created a documentary on Benjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh Festival for the BBC's Monitor TV programme, including rehearsals of the children's opera Noye's Fludde featuring a young Michael Crawford. By the 1960s, he had virtually given up acting to concentrate on a directing career, and another of his earlier directorial efforts, the British Transport Films' documentary Terminus (1961), gained a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. His first two fiction films, A Kind of Loving (1962) and Billy Liar (1963) were set in the North of England. A Kind of Loving won the Golden Bear award at the 12th Berlinale in 1962. His third feature fi…

Directed

  1. Midnight Cowboy (1969) — Director
  2. Marathon Man (1976) — Director
  3. Eye for an Eye (1996) — Director
  4. Pacific Heights (1990) — Director
  5. The Next Best Thing (2000) — Director
  6. The Believers (1987) — Director
  7. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) — Director
  8. Darling (1965) — Director
  9. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) — Director
  10. Billy Liar (1963) — Director
  11. The Day of the Locust (1975) — Director
  12. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) — Director
  13. Cold Comfort Farm (1995) — Director
  14. Yanks (1979) — Director
  15. A Kind of Loving (1962) — Director
  16. The Innocent (1993) — Director
  17. Honky Tonk Freeway (1981) — Director
  18. Madame Sousatzka (1988) — Director
  19. The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998) — Director
  20. Terminus (1961) — Director
  21. Visions of Eight (1973) — Director
  22. An Englishman Abroad (1983) — Director
  23. A Question of Attribution (1991) — Director
  24. Separate Tables (1983) — Director
  25. Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1981) — Director
  26. Screen One (1989) — Director
  27. The Wednesday Play (1964) — Director
  28. Der Rosenkavalier (1985) — Director
  29. Monitor (1958) — Director
  30. Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (1960) — Director
  31. The Starfish (1952) — Director
  32. Wakes Week in Blackburn (1957) — Director
  33. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (1990) — Director
  34. The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann (2016) — Director
  35. Black Legend (1949) — Director
  36. Sunday in the Park (1956) — Director
  37. Days in the Trees (1967) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Pacific Heights (1990) — Man in Elevator (uncredited)
  2. Darling (1965) — Theatre Director (uncredited)
  3. Billy Liar (1963) — Officer in Dream (uncredited)
  4. The Celluloid Closet (1996) — Self
  5. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) — Lieutenant, Graf Spee (uncredited)
  6. The Lost Language of Cranes (1992) — Derek Moulthorp
  7. The Twilight of the Golds (1996) — Dr. Adrian Lodge
  8. Golden Globe Awards (1944) — Self - Nominee
  9. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955) — Hale
  10. Visions of Eight (1973) — Narrator
  11. Terminus (1961) — Passenger (uncredited)
  12. Seven Thunders (1957) — German Soldier
  13. Brothers in Law (1957) — Assize Court Solicitor
  14. Ivanhoe (1958) — Jack Ludlow
  15. The Last Man to Hang (1956) — Dr. Goldfinger
  16. The Divided Heart (1954) — Ticket Collector
  17. Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990) — Self
  18. Stormy Crossing (1958) — Mechanic
  19. Film '72 (1971) — Self
  20. The Buccaneers (1956) — Pigtail
  21. The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People (1976) — Self
  22. Innes Lloyd: The Producer (2025) — Self (archive footage)
  23. Sunday Night Theatre (1950) — Amiens
  24. Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998) — Self
  25. Location: Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) — Himself
  26. Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002) — Self (uncredited)
  27. Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993) — Self
  28. The Big Screen (1973) — Self
  29. Black Legend (1949) — The Judge
  30. The Crowd Around the Cowboy (1969) — Self
  31. Speaking of Britain (1967) — Self
  32. Flick Flack (1974)