17 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 had been stationed with the Royal Engineers, on 17 April 1923.

Lindsay Anderson's father Captain Alexander Vass Anderson was a British Army officer who had been born in North India, and his mother Estelle Bell Gasson was born in Queenstown, South Africa, the daughter of a wool merchant.

Lindsay Anderson won a scholarship for classical studies at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, in 1942.

Lindsay Anderson served in the Army from 1943 until 1946, first with the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and then in the final year of World War II as a cryptographer for the Intelligence Corps, at the Wireless Experimental Centre in Delhi.

Lindsay Anderson assisted in nailing the Red flag to the roof of the Junior Officers' mess in Annan Parbat, in August 1945, after the victory of the Labour Party in the general election was confirmed.

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

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'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 developed an acquaintance from 1950 with John Ford, which led to what has come to be regarded as one of the standard books on that director, Lindsay Anderson's About John Ford.

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.