Tony Richardson
English theatre and film director and producer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cecil Antonio Richardson was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Tom Jones. Early life Richardson was born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1928 to Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist, and his wife, Elsie Evans . He was Head Boy at Ashville College, Harrogate and attended Wadham College, University of Oxford. His Oxford contemporaries included Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert. He had the unprecedented distinction of being the President of both the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the Experimental Theatre Club , in addition to being the theatre critic for the university magazine Isis. Those he cast in his student productions included Shirley Williams , John Schlesinger, Nigel Davenport and Robert Robinson.
