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Tony Richardson - what members say

A Taste Of Honey review by from London, England

Outstanding Dramedy 7 June 2004
... of the three leads. This is one of the first films to be shot on location and Tony Richardson uses the Salford location beautifully. If excellent drama/comedy and beautiful... Read customer review

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner review by from LONDON

In a class of its own 13 June 2004
... With an intense performance by Tom Courtenay as Smith and gritty direction by Tony Richardson, ‘the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ has survived the test of time and... Read customer review

A Delicate Balance review by A customer from Lewes

First class film version of prize-winning play 26 December 2009
... than it is here. Certainly one can hardly hope for better credits: directed by Tony Richardson (Albee had originally asked for Ingmar Bergman!) with a peerless cast headed by... Read customer review

Tony Richardson - filmography

Blue Sky on DVD (1994)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jessica Lange stars as army wife Carly Marshall in Tony Richardson's last film, set in the early 1960s. Carly, a very beautiful woman, spices up the drabness of military life with the kind of promiscuity and exhibitionist behavior that has kept her husband, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), from getting the ..read more »

55% from 384 members

The Hotel New Hampshire on DVD (1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Nastassja Kinski
Director: Tony Richardson
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British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New ..read more »

57% from 991 members

The Border on DVD (1982)
Starring: Elpidia Carrillo, Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson
Director: Tony Richardson
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Possibly the closest that Jack Nicholson has ever come to playing an old-fashioned hero was the role of Charlie Smith, in a film whose writers had worked on 'The Wild Bunch' and 'The Deer Hunter'. A U.S. border patrol guard who's disenchanted with his work, Charlie, accedes to his wife, Marcy's, ..read more »

61% from 322 members

Joseph Andrews on DVD (1977)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret, Jim Dale
Director: Tony Richardson
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Henry Fielding's rollicking, bawdy tale is brought to lusty life on screen by Tony Richardson. Employed as a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Booby (Peter Bull), the pure-hearted Joseph (Peter Firth) is in love with Fanny Goodwill (Natalie Ogle), one of the housemaids. But Joseph is plagued ..read more »

52% from 38 members

Mahogany (1975)
Starring: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins
Director: Tony Richardson, Berry Gordy
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A young black woman rises to fame and fortune as a fashion model, only to later discover that life is meaningless without the man she loves.

63% from 38 members
Currently unavailable

A Delicate Balance on DVD (1973)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick
Director: Tony Richardson
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Tony Richardson directs Katherine Hepburn and Paul Scofield in this American Film Theatre adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play.

53% from 164 members

Ned Kelly on DVD (1970)
Starring: Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus
Director: Tony Richardson
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True story of a frontier cowboy in Australia who is convicted as a horse thief. He insists he is innocent and takes to the hills to live as an outlaw.

47% from 150 members

Hamlet on DVD (1969)
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Tony Richardson
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Nicol Williamson's portrayal of Hamlet performed on both the London and Broadway stage is captured on film, bringing new life to William Shakespeare's classic play.

61% from 132 members

The Charge Of The Light Brigade on DVD (1968)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud
Director: Tony Richardson
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Of the many film versions of Alfred Lord Tennyson's narrative poem, 1936's Charge of the Light Brigade has the least relationship to the facts concerning the famous 19th century British military blunder in the Crimea. Reflecting the popularity of 1935's Lives of A Bengal Lancer, the film uses the ..read more »

64% from 1,371 member

Mademoiselle on DVD (1966)
Starring: Ettore Manni, Jane Beretta, Umberto Orsini
Director: Tony Richardson
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Mademoiselle (Jeanne Moreau: Jules et Jim) is the local school teacher of a small French village which has recently been terrorized by clandestine acts of arson; several farms have been torched and the townspeople are quick to accuse the Italian , Manou (Ettore Manni), who has been seducing the ..read more »

55% from 67 members

The Loved One (1965)
Starring: Robert Morse, Rod Steiger, Jonathan Winters
Director: Tony Richardson
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Outrageous black comedy, promoted as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone!," stars Robert Morse as a British poet who visits California and, after his uncle's death, is introduced to the seamier side of the funeral industry.

60% from 18 members
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Tom Jones (1963)
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Diane Cilento
Director: Tony Richardson
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Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Fielding's classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he's raised by her employer, the aptly ..read more »

59% from 1,620 member
Not currently released

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner on DVD (1962)
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam
Director: Tony Richardson
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Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire proved to be the perfect material for Tony Richardson to adapt in the early 1960s. The film stars Tom Courtenay as the disaffected Colin Smith, who ends up in a Borstal, or reform school, after robbing ..read more »

70% from 3,772 members

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runn... (1962)
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam
Director: Tony Richardson
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Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire proved to be the perfect material for Tony Richardson to adapt in the early 1960s. The film stars Tom Courtenay as the disaffected Colin Smith, who ends up in a Borstal, or reform school, after robbing ..read more »

68% from 430 members

A Taste Of Honey (1961)
Starring: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens
Director: Tony Richardson
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Tony Richardson continued in the vein of kitchen-sink realism with this adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's novel of working-class life. Set in England in the early 1960s, A TASTE OF HONEY stars Rita Tushingham as the waifish Jo, a plain 17-year-old girl who is dragged from one shabby bed-sitter to ..read more »

70% from 3,276 members
Not currently released

The Entertainer on DVD (1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
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Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of Britain's New Wave kitchen-sink realism, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne, by starring as third-rate seaside comedian Archie Rice ..read more »

66% from 646 members

Look Back In Anger on DVD (1959)
Starring: Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ..read more »

70% from 307 members

Free Cinema (3 discs) on DVD (1956)
Director: Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Lorenza Mazzetti
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A collection of Free Cinema films containing 16 short films on three discs. The term Free Cinema was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson, when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti screened a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre on 5 February 1956...read more »

70% from 180 members

John Osborne And The Gift Of Friendship on DVD
Starring: John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier
Director: Tony Palmer
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With his 1956 play, 'Look Back in Anger', British dramatist John Osborne renewed the emotional and rhetorical intensity of English theatre. Unfortunately, misunderstanding and controversy surrounded most of his career. This program reconstructs Osborne's life and artistic journey using rarely seen ..read more »

59% from 40 members

Tony Richardson facts

5 most recent films

Blue Sky - 3.0 stars
The Hotel New Hampshire - 3.0 stars
The Border - 3.0 stars
Joseph Andrews - 2.5 stars
Mahogany - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Taste Of Honey - 3.5 stars
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - 3.5 stars
Look Back In Anger - 3.5 stars
Free Cinema - 3.5 stars
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Joseph Andrews - 2.5 stars
The Loved One - 3.0 stars
John Osborne And The Gift Of Friendship - 3.0 stars
Mahogany - 3.0 stars
Ned Kelly - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Albert Finney - 4 times - show films
James Bolam - 3 times - show films
Joe Robinson - 3 times - show films
Michael Redgrave - 3 times - show films
Julia Foster - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Karel Reisz - 2 times - show films
Lorenza Mazzetti - 2 times - show films
Berry Gordy - 2 times - show films
Tony Palmer - 1 times - show films