John Schlesinger

ActorDirectorWriterProducerCinematographer Feb 16 (died age 77) London, England, UK 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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Biography

John Richard Schlesinger, CBE, was an English film and stage director, and actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Director for Midnight Cowboy, and was nominated for two other films (Darling and Sunday Bloody Sunday). Schlesinger was born in London, into a middle class Jewish family. His acting career began in the 1950s and consisted of supporting roles in British films and television productions. He began his directorial career in 1956 with the short documentary Sunday in the Park about Londo…

Known For

Film

Midnight Cowboy

Director

Film

Marathon Man

Director

Film

Pacific Heights

Man in Elevator (uncredited)

Film

Eye for an Eye

Director

Film

Darling

Theatre Director (uncredited)

Film

The Celluloid Closet

Self

Film

The Falcon and the Snowman

Director

Film

Billy Liar

Officer in Dream (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (31)

Movies (24)

Innes Lloyd: The Producer

2025

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

as Self (uncredited)

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

as Self

The Celluloid Closet

as Self

The Twilight of the Golds

1996

as Dr. Adrian Lodge

5.4

The Lost Language of Cranes

1992

as Derek Moulthorp

5.9

Pacific Heights

1990

as Man in Elevator (uncredited)

6.3

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

1990

as Self

6.6

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

1976

as Self

Visions of Eight

1973

as Narrator

7.0

The Big Screen

1973

as Self

The Crowd Around the Cowboy

1969

as Self

Location: Far from the Madding Crowd

1967

as Himself

Speaking of Britain

1967

as Self

Darling

1965

as Theatre Director (uncredited)

6.7

Billy Liar

1963

as Officer in Dream (uncredited)

6.8

Terminus

1961

as Passenger (uncredited)

Stormy Crossing

as Mechanic

Brothers in Law

as Assize Court Solicitor

7.1

Seven Thunders

1957

as German Soldier

5.2

The Battle of the River Plate

1956

as Lieutenant, Graf Spee (uncredited)

The Last Man to Hang

as Dr. Goldfinger

The Divided Heart

as Ticket Collector

Black Legend

as The Judge

Television (7)

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993

as Self

Flick Flack

Ivanhoe

as Jack Ludlow

The Buccaneers

as Pigtail

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Hale

Sunday Night Theatre

as Amiens

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (44)

Movies (43)

The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann

2016

Director

The Next Best Thing

2000

Director

5.3

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Director

Eye for an Eye

Director

Cold Comfort Farm

Director

The Innocent

Director

A Question of Attribution

Director

Pacific Heights

Director

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

1990

Director

Madame Sousatzka

Director

Madame Sousatzka

Screenplay

The Believers

Director

The Believers

Producer

The Falcon and the Snowman

1985

Director

6.4

The Falcon and the Snowman

Producer

Der Rosenkavalier

Director

Separate Tables

Director

An Englishman Abroad

Director

Honky Tonk Freeway

Director

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Director

Yanks

Director

Marathon Man

Director

The Day of the Locust

Director

Visions of Eight

Director

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Director

Midnight Cowboy

Director

Far from the Madding Crowd

Director

Darling

Director

Darling

Idea

Billy Liar

Director

A Kind of Loving

Director

Terminus

Director

Terminus

Writer

Wakes Week in Blackburn

1957

Director

Sunday in the Park

1956

Director

Sunday in the Park

1956

Director of Photography

Sunday in the Park

1956

Producer

The Starfish

1952

Director

5.0

The Starfish

1952

Director of Photography

The Starfish

Writer

Black Legend

Director

Black Legend

1949

Producer

Black Legend

1949

Writer

Television (1)

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

Director

10.0