24 Facts About Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Gordon Anderson was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave.

Lindsay Anderson is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if.

Lindsay Anderson is notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

Lindsay Gordon Anderson was born in Bangalore, South India, where his father was stationed with the Royal Engineers, on 17 April 1923.

Lindsay Anderson's father Captain Alexander Vass Anderson was a British Army officer who had come from Scotland.

Lindsay Anderson's mother Estelle Bell Gasson was born in Queenstown, South Africa, the daughter of a wool merchant.

Lindsay Anderson's parents separated in 1926, and Estelle returned to England with the two boys.

The UK had been at war for years when Lindsay Anderson won a scholarship in 1942 for classical studies at Wadham College at the University of Oxford.

Lindsay Anderson returned to Oxford in 1946 but changed from classical studies to English; he graduated in 1948.

Lindsay Anderson was passionate about film and with his friend Gavin Lambert, and Peter Ericsson and Karel Reisz, co-founded Sequence magazine, which became influential.

Lindsay Anderson later wrote for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly, the New Statesman.

Lindsay Anderson had already begun to make films himself, starting in 1948 with Meet the Pioneers, a documentary about a conveyor-belt factory.

Lindsay Anderson was invited to join the British Film Institute's Board of Governors in 1969 with the aim of bolstering support for independent British directors, but left the role after a year.

Lindsay Anderson's film met with mixed reviews at the time, and was not a commercial success.

Lindsay Anderson is perhaps best remembered as a filmmaker for his "Mick Travis trilogy", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: if.

In 1981, Lindsay Anderson played the role of the Master of Caius College at Cambridge University in the film Chariots of Fire.

Lindsay Anderson wrote what has come to be regarded as one of the standard books on that director, About John Ford.

Lindsay Anderson's own cut of the tour, titled If You Were There, was never released after George Michael objected to this version.

In 1986, Lindsay Anderson served as a member of the jury at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, by invitation.

Lindsay Anderson directed premiere productions of plays by David Storey, among others.

In 1992, as a close friend of the late actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Lindsay Anderson arranged a boat trip to scatter the women's ashes in the Thames River.

Gavin Lambert's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, wrote that Anderson was homosexual and repressed his orientation, which was seen as a betrayal by his other friends.

In November 2006 Malcolm McDowell told The Independent that he believed Lindsay Anderson was gay, and said:.

Lindsay Anderson died from a heart attack on 30 August 1994 at the age of 71.