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John Schlesinger

1926–2003 · English film and stage director

John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and theatre director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing with provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.

John Schlesinger, in order

  1. 1955 Oh... Rosalinda!!: acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
  2. 1956 The Battle of the River Plate: acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
  3. 1956 The Last Man to Hang?: acted · directed by Terence Fisher
  4. 1957 Brothers in Law: acted · directed by Roy Boulting
  5. 1958 Stormy Crossing: acted · directed by C. M. Pennington-Richards
  6. 1959 The Innocent Eye (short film): directed
  7. 1961 Terminus (short film): directed, wrote
  8. 1962 A Kind of Loving: directed · streaming on Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex
  9. 1963 Billy Liar: directed · critics 91%, audiences 83% · streaming on Kanopy, Tubi
  10. 1965 Darling: directed, wrote
  11. 1967 Far from the Madding Crowd: directed · critics 65%, audiences 77% · streaming on HBO Max, YouTube (free)
  12. 1967 Israel: A Right to Live: directed
  13. 1969 Midnight Cowboy: directed
  14. 1971 Sunday, Bloody Sunday: directed · critics 83%, audiences 70% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  15. 1973 Visions of Eight: directed · critics 58%, audiences 60%
  16. 1975 The Day of the Locust: directed
  17. 1976 Marathon Man: directed
  18. 1979 Yanks: directed
  19. 1981 Honky Tonk Freeway: directed
  20. 1983 An Englishman Abroad (TV movie): directed
  21. 1983 Separate Tables: directed
  22. 1985 The Falcon and the Snowman: directed
  23. 1987 The Believers: directed
  24. 1988 Madame Sousatzka: directed, wrote
  25. 1990 Pacific Heights: directed, acted
  26. 1991 A Question of Attribution: directed
  27. 1991 The Lost Language of Cranes: acted · directed by Nigel Finch
  28. 1992 The Journey: directed
  29. 1993 The Innocent: directed
  30. 1995 Cold Comfort Farm: directed
  31. 1995 The Celluloid Closet: acted · directed by Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein · critics 96%, audiences 89% · streaming on Roku Channel
  32. 1996 Eye for an Eye: directed · critics 8%, audiences 60% · streaming on Hoopla
  33. 1996 The Twilight of the Golds (TV movie): acted
  34. 1997 The Tale of Sweeney Todd (TV movie): directed
  35. 2000 The Next Best Thing: directed
  36. The Valiant Years: directed