17 Facts About Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg was born in New York City in 1940 to actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg was educated at Trinity School in New York and at Choate School in Connecticut.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg knew Welles, worked with him in the theatre, and met him at intervals throughout Welles's life.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg grew up with a stepfather, American businessman Stuart Scheftel, who married Fitzgerald in 1946.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg worked as producer's assistant for the film Dear Heart.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg served as the series director of The Ronnie Barker Playhouse in 1968.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg conceived The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Stones and other musicians playing in a circus atmosphere.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg was hired by the Beatles to direct a film.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg's second feature film as director, Nasty Habits, is a comedy satire of the Watergate scandal.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg continued directing music videos throughout the 1970s, including many for the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney and Wings.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed a film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play Waiting for Godot.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed Broadway productions of Agnes of God, and The Boys of Winter.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg's autobiography entitled Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond was published in 2011.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg married Lucy Mary Davies in 1967; they divorced in 1971.

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Lucy Michael Lindsay-Hogg subsequently became the second wife of photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, in 1978.

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For 10 years, in the 1970s, Michael Lindsay-Hogg was romantically involved with British actress Jean Marsh.

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg had been involved with Gloria Vanderbilt, who had assured Lindsay-Hogg that Orson Welles was his father.