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'''Anthony Harvey''' (3 June 1930 – 23 November 2017<ref>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anthony-harvey-dead-lion-winter-director-kurick-editor-was-87-1062509</ref>) was a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor and moved into directing in the mid-1960s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Film Directors on Directing |last=Gallagher |first=John A. |year=1989 |page=115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5e7cIQTNF0C |isbn=978-0-275-93272-5 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group}}</ref> Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films. The second film that Harvey directed, ''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'' (1968), earned him a [[Directors Guild of America Award]] and a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Directing]]. He died in November 2017 at the age of 87.<ref>[http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-End/541074/Anthony-Harvey-Film-Director-And-Editor-Dies-At-87 Anthony Harvey, Film Director And Editor, Dies At 87]</ref>
'''Anthony Harvey''' (3 June 1930 – 23 November 2017<ref>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anthony-harvey-dead-lion-winter-director-kurick-editor-was-87-1062509</ref>) was a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor and moved into directing in the mid-1960s.<ref>{{cite book |title=Film Directors on Directing |last=Gallagher |first=John A. |year=1989 |page=115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5e7cIQTNF0C |isbn=978-0-275-93272-5 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group}}</ref> Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films. The second film that Harvey directed, ''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'' (1968), earned him a [[Directors Guild of America Award]] and a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Directing]]. He died in November 2017 at the age of 87.<ref>[http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-End/541074/Anthony-Harvey-Film-Director-And-Editor-Dies-At-87 Anthony Harvey, Film Director And Editor, Dies At 87]</ref> Harvey's career is also notable for his recurring work with a number of leading actors and directors including [[Terry-Thomas]], [[Peter Sellers]], [[Katherine Hepburn]], [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Richard Attenborough]], [[Liv Ullman]], [[Sam Waterston]], the [[Boulting Brothers]], [[Anthony Asquith]], [[Bryan Forbes]] and [[Stanley Kubrick]].

==Biography==
Harvey was born in London in 1930 but his father died when he was young and he was raised and took his name from his stepfather, actor and writer [[Morris Harvey]]. He began his screen career as a child actor and made his first film appearance playing Ptolemy, the younger brother of Cleopatra (played by [[Vivien Leigh]]) in the 1945 film version of [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra]]'' where he recalled that he was "looked after" by star [[Claude Rains]]. Harvey subsequently won a scholarship to study at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].

===Career as film editor===
Harvey began his editing career at [[Denham Studios]] and [[Ealing Studios]] as a protegé of directors [[Roy Boulting]] and [[John Boulting]]. He soon found himself in high demand, edited a string of notable British films in the 1950s and early 1960s, and he enjoyed fruitful working relationships with several major directors of the period including [[Anthony Asquith]], [[Roy Boulting]], [[John Boulting]], [[Bryan Forbes]] and UK-based American director [[Stanley Kubrick]].

Harvey's first film as editor was the 1956 [[Anthony Asquith]] short ''On Such A Night'', followed by his first feature assignment, the Ealing war comedy ''[[Private's Progress]]'', starring [[Richard Attenborough]] and [[Terry-Thomas]]. His subsequent work as an editor included Roy Boulting's comedies ''[[Brothers in Law]]'' (1957) and ''[[Happy Is the Bride]]'' (1958), the drama ''[[Tread Softly Stranger]]'' (1958) directed by [[Gordon Parry]], the political comedy ''[[Carlton-Browne of the F.O.]]'' (aka ''The Man in the Cocked Hat''), and the hit 1959 comedy ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]''. In 1960 he edited the industrial drama ''[[The Angry Silence]]'', directed by [[Guy Green]], and the Anthony Asquith comedy ''[[The Millionairess]]''. The latter film, based on a Shaw story, starred Peter Sellers and [[Sophia Loren]] and is chiefly remembered today for the tie-in novelty duet between Sellers and Loren, "[[Goodness Gracious Me]]", which was a Top 5 UK hit single.

During 1962 Harvey worked with both Bryan Forbes and Stanley Kubrick, editing Forbes' groundbreaking drama ''[[The L-Shaped Room]]'' and Kubrick's landmark adaptation of Nabokov's ''[[Lolita (film)|Lolita]]''. His collaboration with [[Stanley Kubrick]] began after Harvey called Kubrick up out of the blue and asked if they could work together. This led to his work on both ''Lolita'' (1962) and ''[[Dr Strangelove]]'' (1964) - which reunited Harvey with Peter Sellers for the final time. This was followed by the acclaimed 1965 spy thriller ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]'', directed by [[Martin Ritt]].

In a 2014 [[http://www.interviewwiththeartist.com/all-episodes/episode-30-anthony-harvey conversation]] with broadcaster Walker Vreeland, Harvey recalled his working relationship with Kubrick:

:"Every moment I spent with him, I never learned so much about movies. He said that when you have a close-up and you have two wonderful actors, don't go backward and forward, leave the actor that was marvellous and stay on that shot. It's a much better way of putting a film together.

:"We had a great friendship. He used to sack me every now and then and say, 'Go home and don't come back!' But the next day, [it was] 'Hello, Tony, how are you?' It was a sort of joke. Because I was quite determined to put my stuff that I cut on the movie.

:"He said that I was becoming more impossible than Peter Sellers. He said, 'You'd better hurry up and direct, then you won't be so annoying in the cutting rooms.'"

Harvey's last two credits as an editor were his own directorial debut ''[[Dutchman]]'' (1966) and ''[[The Whisperers]]'' (1967), his last collaboration with Bryan Forbes.

===Career as director===
Harvey's first feature film as a director was the commercially unsuccessful but critically well-regarded drama called "[[Dutchman]]" (1966) which was nominated for the [[Golden Lion]] at the [[Venice Film Festival]].

Actor [[Peter O'Toole]] was so impressed by Harvey's work on this film that he personally brought it to the attention of [[Katherine Hepburn]] and pushed for Harvey to direct the screen adaptation of [[James Goldman]]'s ''[[The Lion In Winter]]'' (1968), which earned Hepburn the Academy Award for Best Actress (shared with [[Barbra Streisand]]). The film was a major critical and commercial success and was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture; Harvey was nominated for Best Director and won Best Director at the [[Golden Globes]] for his work on the film. This film led to an ongoing collaboration with both Hepburn and O'Toole (they variously appeared in several of Harvey's later films) and Harvey and Hepburn became close personal friends.

Harvey's next feature was an adaptation of another James Goldman play, the offbeat 1971 comedy-drama ''[[They Might Be Giants]]'' starring [[George C. Scott]] and [[Joanne Woodward]], in which Scott plays a wealthy retiree who is convinced that he is [[Sherlock Holmes]]. In 1973 Harvey reunited with Hepburn for an acclaimed made-for-TV adaptation of [[Tennessee Williams]]' ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' which also featured [[Sam Waterston]] and [[Michael Moriarty]]. His next film was the historical drama ''[[The Abdication]]'' starring [[Liv Ullmann]], about the abdication of [[Queen Christina]] of Sweden. His next film was another historical drama ''[[The Disappearance of Aimee]]'', starring [[Faye Dunaway]] and [[Bette Davis]], which explored the mysterious 1926 temporary disappearance of American evangelist [[Aimee Semple McPherson]].

''[[Players (film)|Players]]'' (1979) was a romantic drama set in the world of international tennis, in which a rising tennis star ([[Dean Paul Martin]]) falls for an older woman ([[Ali McGraw]]) who is engaged to a wealthy man ([[Maximilian Schell]]) whom she does not love. The film is also notable for appearances (as themselves) by a number of real-life tennis stars of the period including [[Pancho Gonzalez]], [[Guillermo Vilas]], [[John McEnroe]] and [[Ilie Nastase]]. This was followed by the Western drama ''[[Eagle's Wing]]'' (1980) starring [[Martin Sheen]], [[Harvey Keitel]] and [[Sam Waterston]].

The following year Harvey reunited with Liv Ullmann for the romantic drama ''[[Richard's Things]]'' (which also featured British actress [[Amanda Redman]]) and in 1981 he directed the American sequences of ''[[The Patricia Neal Story]]'', a tele-movie starring [[Glenda Jackson]] which detailed the real-life struggles faced by Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal after she suffered a devastating stroke which robbed her of her speech, and the efforts of her then husband [[Roald Dahl]] (played by [[Dirk Bogarde]]) and their friends and family to help her recover.

In 1983 Harvey directed another American tele-movie, ''[[Svengali (1983 TV movie)|Svengali]]''; loosely based based on the [[George Du Maurier]] thriller ''[[Trilby]]'' it starred Peter O'Toole as an ageing singer who discovers and nurtures a new talent ([[Jodie Foster]]) with whom he becomes romantically involved.

Harvey's last cinema film was another offbeat black comedy, ''[[Grace Quigley]]'' (1984), which reunited him with Katherine Hepburn (her final top-billed role in a feature film). The story concerns an elderly New York woman who witnesses a murder committed by a top hit-man ([[Nick Nolte]]), whom she then blackmails into killing some of her friends.

After a ten-year interval, Harvey returned to direct what was to be his last film, the romantic comedy tele-movie ''[[This Can't Be Love]]'' (1994). This was to be the last of his four collaborations with Katherine Hepburn, and it was also the only time that Hepburn ever worked on screen with the film's co-star [[Anthony Quinn]]. The plot concerns the romantic travails of a former glamour movie-star couple who had a brief stormy marriage in the 1940s, who reunite decades later to find that their relationship is as difficult as ever.

In 2014 Harvey told Walker Vreeland that he decided to stop making films after the producers interfered in the making of ''This Can't Be Love'':

:"I'll tell you exactly why I stopped. Because the people who were making the film, during the editing stage, told me they weren't quite happy with the pauses of Miss Hepburn. And they sent an editor - a very nice man - who was in the post room, the mail room, and he did a few snips on the Movieola - and I thought that was outrageous. I said, 'Do you know I cut so-and-so, and this and that, and 'Dr Strangelove', and I really don't want someone else fooling with my film.' Those pauses with Kate Hepburn were very unique so leave them alone ... I felt even though one shouldn't get knocked out by what people say - you have to overlook it and on to the next one ... but I felt it was very strange to let a guy - a perfectly nice fellow in the office downstairs - to come and chip along on my film. I just thought it was unspeakable. And I tried to explain to the producers and they just laughed ... I just thought it was ridiculous, so I just went in and redid the whole schedule and they knew nothing about it. I just thought it was ridiculous."<ref>[http://www.interviewwiththeartist.com/all-episodes/episode-30-anthony-harvey Walker Vreeland, ''Interview with the Artist'', Episode 30, Anthony Harvey]</ref>

Harvey moved to Long Island in the 1990s and he died there in November 2017, aged 87.


==Awards==
==Awards==

Revision as of 05:39, 4 December 2017

For the Australian rules footballer, see Anthony Harvey (footballer).

Anthony Harvey
Born(1930-06-03)3 June 1930
London, England
Died23 November 2017(2017-11-23) (aged 87)
Water Mill, New York
Occupation(s)director
film editor
Years active1950–1994

Anthony Harvey (3 June 1930 – 23 November 2017[1]) was a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor and moved into directing in the mid-1960s.[2] Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films. The second film that Harvey directed, The Lion in Winter (1968), earned him a Directors Guild of America Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Directing. He died in November 2017 at the age of 87.[3] Harvey's career is also notable for his recurring work with a number of leading actors and directors including Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Katherine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Liv Ullman, Sam Waterston, the Boulting Brothers, Anthony Asquith, Bryan Forbes and Stanley Kubrick.

Biography

Harvey was born in London in 1930 but his father died when he was young and he was raised and took his name from his stepfather, actor and writer Morris Harvey. He began his screen career as a child actor and made his first film appearance playing Ptolemy, the younger brother of Cleopatra (played by Vivien Leigh) in the 1945 film version of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra where he recalled that he was "looked after" by star Claude Rains. Harvey subsequently won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career as film editor

Harvey began his editing career at Denham Studios and Ealing Studios as a protegé of directors Roy Boulting and John Boulting. He soon found himself in high demand, edited a string of notable British films in the 1950s and early 1960s, and he enjoyed fruitful working relationships with several major directors of the period including Anthony Asquith, Roy Boulting, John Boulting, Bryan Forbes and UK-based American director Stanley Kubrick.

Harvey's first film as editor was the 1956 Anthony Asquith short On Such A Night, followed by his first feature assignment, the Ealing war comedy Private's Progress, starring Richard Attenborough and Terry-Thomas. His subsequent work as an editor included Roy Boulting's comedies Brothers in Law (1957) and Happy Is the Bride (1958), the drama Tread Softly Stranger (1958) directed by Gordon Parry, the political comedy Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (aka The Man in the Cocked Hat), and the hit 1959 comedy I'm All Right Jack. In 1960 he edited the industrial drama The Angry Silence, directed by Guy Green, and the Anthony Asquith comedy The Millionairess. The latter film, based on a Shaw story, starred Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren and is chiefly remembered today for the tie-in novelty duet between Sellers and Loren, "Goodness Gracious Me", which was a Top 5 UK hit single.

During 1962 Harvey worked with both Bryan Forbes and Stanley Kubrick, editing Forbes' groundbreaking drama The L-Shaped Room and Kubrick's landmark adaptation of Nabokov's Lolita. His collaboration with Stanley Kubrick began after Harvey called Kubrick up out of the blue and asked if they could work together. This led to his work on both Lolita (1962) and Dr Strangelove (1964) - which reunited Harvey with Peter Sellers for the final time. This was followed by the acclaimed 1965 spy thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, directed by Martin Ritt.

In a 2014 [conversation] with broadcaster Walker Vreeland, Harvey recalled his working relationship with Kubrick:

"Every moment I spent with him, I never learned so much about movies. He said that when you have a close-up and you have two wonderful actors, don't go backward and forward, leave the actor that was marvellous and stay on that shot. It's a much better way of putting a film together.
"We had a great friendship. He used to sack me every now and then and say, 'Go home and don't come back!' But the next day, [it was] 'Hello, Tony, how are you?' It was a sort of joke. Because I was quite determined to put my stuff that I cut on the movie.
"He said that I was becoming more impossible than Peter Sellers. He said, 'You'd better hurry up and direct, then you won't be so annoying in the cutting rooms.'"

Harvey's last two credits as an editor were his own directorial debut Dutchman (1966) and The Whisperers (1967), his last collaboration with Bryan Forbes.

Career as director

Harvey's first feature film as a director was the commercially unsuccessful but critically well-regarded drama called "Dutchman" (1966) which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Actor Peter O'Toole was so impressed by Harvey's work on this film that he personally brought it to the attention of Katherine Hepburn and pushed for Harvey to direct the screen adaptation of James Goldman's The Lion In Winter (1968), which earned Hepburn the Academy Award for Best Actress (shared with Barbra Streisand). The film was a major critical and commercial success and was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture; Harvey was nominated for Best Director and won Best Director at the Golden Globes for his work on the film. This film led to an ongoing collaboration with both Hepburn and O'Toole (they variously appeared in several of Harvey's later films) and Harvey and Hepburn became close personal friends.

Harvey's next feature was an adaptation of another James Goldman play, the offbeat 1971 comedy-drama They Might Be Giants starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, in which Scott plays a wealthy retiree who is convinced that he is Sherlock Holmes. In 1973 Harvey reunited with Hepburn for an acclaimed made-for-TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie which also featured Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty. His next film was the historical drama The Abdication starring Liv Ullmann, about the abdication of Queen Christina of Sweden. His next film was another historical drama The Disappearance of Aimee, starring Faye Dunaway and Bette Davis, which explored the mysterious 1926 temporary disappearance of American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.

Players (1979) was a romantic drama set in the world of international tennis, in which a rising tennis star (Dean Paul Martin) falls for an older woman (Ali McGraw) who is engaged to a wealthy man (Maximilian Schell) whom she does not love. The film is also notable for appearances (as themselves) by a number of real-life tennis stars of the period including Pancho Gonzalez, Guillermo Vilas, John McEnroe and Ilie Nastase. This was followed by the Western drama Eagle's Wing (1980) starring Martin Sheen, Harvey Keitel and Sam Waterston.

The following year Harvey reunited with Liv Ullmann for the romantic drama Richard's Things (which also featured British actress Amanda Redman) and in 1981 he directed the American sequences of The Patricia Neal Story, a tele-movie starring Glenda Jackson which detailed the real-life struggles faced by Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal after she suffered a devastating stroke which robbed her of her speech, and the efforts of her then husband Roald Dahl (played by Dirk Bogarde) and their friends and family to help her recover.

In 1983 Harvey directed another American tele-movie, Svengali; loosely based based on the George Du Maurier thriller Trilby it starred Peter O'Toole as an ageing singer who discovers and nurtures a new talent (Jodie Foster) with whom he becomes romantically involved.

Harvey's last cinema film was another offbeat black comedy, Grace Quigley (1984), which reunited him with Katherine Hepburn (her final top-billed role in a feature film). The story concerns an elderly New York woman who witnesses a murder committed by a top hit-man (Nick Nolte), whom she then blackmails into killing some of her friends.

After a ten-year interval, Harvey returned to direct what was to be his last film, the romantic comedy tele-movie This Can't Be Love (1994). This was to be the last of his four collaborations with Katherine Hepburn, and it was also the only time that Hepburn ever worked on screen with the film's co-star Anthony Quinn. The plot concerns the romantic travails of a former glamour movie-star couple who had a brief stormy marriage in the 1940s, who reunite decades later to find that their relationship is as difficult as ever.

In 2014 Harvey told Walker Vreeland that he decided to stop making films after the producers interfered in the making of This Can't Be Love:

"I'll tell you exactly why I stopped. Because the people who were making the film, during the editing stage, told me they weren't quite happy with the pauses of Miss Hepburn. And they sent an editor - a very nice man - who was in the post room, the mail room, and he did a few snips on the Movieola - and I thought that was outrageous. I said, 'Do you know I cut so-and-so, and this and that, and 'Dr Strangelove', and I really don't want someone else fooling with my film.' Those pauses with Kate Hepburn were very unique so leave them alone ... I felt even though one shouldn't get knocked out by what people say - you have to overlook it and on to the next one ... but I felt it was very strange to let a guy - a perfectly nice fellow in the office downstairs - to come and chip along on my film. I just thought it was unspeakable. And I tried to explain to the producers and they just laughed ... I just thought it was ridiculous, so I just went in and redid the whole schedule and they knew nothing about it. I just thought it was ridiculous."[4]

Harvey moved to Long Island in the 1990s and he died there in November 2017, aged 87.

Awards

Selected filmography

Directing

Editing

The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.

References

  1. ^ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anthony-harvey-dead-lion-winter-director-kurick-editor-was-87-1062509
  2. ^ Gallagher, John A. (1989). Film Directors on Directing. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-275-93272-5.
  3. ^ Anthony Harvey, Film Director And Editor, Dies At 87
  4. ^ Walker Vreeland, Interview with the Artist, Episode 30, Anthony Harvey
  5. ^ The New York Times: "They Might Be Giants"

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