Anthony Harvey

Anthony Harvey

Nascimento : 1931-06-03, London, England, UK

Morte : 2017-11-23

História

Anthony Harvey (born 3 June 1931) was a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor and moved into directing in the mid-1960s. Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and thirteen as a director. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Harvey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Anthony Harvey

Filmes

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles.
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb." This short documentary compares the film with the actual events concerning the Cold War and the Cuban Missle Crisis.
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
Self
A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to this film.
Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms
Self
Four-time Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn called herself a "personality" as well as an actress, and rightfully so. This biography chronicles her life as an independent woman and legendary actress, from her childhood to her passionate relationships. Brought to light are thoughts on Howard Hughes, John Ford and longtime companion Spencer Tracy. Her story comes to life through rare home movies, screen tests, movie outtakes and interviews.
Vestígios de uma Paixão
Director
Two aging actors, who had a brief but intense marriage in the 1940s, are reunited decades later to find that issues between them are not resolved.
Um Jogo de Vida e Morte
Director
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.
Svengali
Director
An old singer coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger. An adaptation of George L. Du Maurier's novel "Trilby"
The Patricia Neal Story
Director
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
Richard's Things
Director
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Indômita Disputa
Director
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
Players
Director
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.
O Desaparecimento de Aimee
Director
In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.
A Abdicação de uma Rainha
Director
A Rainha Cristina da Suécia abdica e viaja para Roma para abraçar a Igreja Católica.
The Glass Menagerie
Director
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
Esse Louco Me Fascina
Director
Every hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes' weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point.
O Leão no Inverno
Director
Natal de 1183 - Um envelhecido Rei Henrique II planeja uma reunião onde ele espera escolherr seu sucessor. Ele convoca as seguintes pessoas para o Natal: suas ardilosa mas aprisionada esposa, Rainha Eleanor de Aquitânia; sua amante, a Princesa Alais, com quem ele deseja se casar; seus três filhos (Richard, Geoffrey, e João), todos os quais desejam o trono; e o jovem mas astuto Rei Filipe da França (que também é irmão de Alais). Com o destino do império de Henrique em jogo, todo mundo inicia sua própria luta de mentiras e traição para garantir sua reivindicação. Natal de 1183 - Todos os três filhos do rei Henrique II querem herdar o trono, mas ele não vai se comprometer com uma escolha. Então eles e sua ardilosa esposa tramam para forçá-lo.
The Whisperers
Editor
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Dutchman
Editor
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
Dutchman
Director
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
Giacometti
Editor
The Arts Council commissioned this film to coincide with their major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in the summer of 1965. A similar exhibition was held concurrently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, sealing the artist's reputation as a modern master.
O Espião que Veio do Frio
Editor
Alec Leamas, um espião britânico vai para a Alemanha Oriental supostamente para desertar, mas na verdade, vai para semear a desinformação. À medida que surgem mais reviravoltas na trama, Leamas fica mais convencido de que seu próprio lado o vê apenas como mais uma engrenagem. Sua luta contra a desumanização torna-se o foco final da história.
Dr. Fantástico
Editor
Um general americano meio louco, Jack D. Ripper, acredita que os soviéticos estão sabotando os reservatórios de água dos Estados Unidos e resolve fazer um ataque anticomunista, bombardeando a União Soviética para se livrar dos "vermelhos". Com as comunicações interrompidas, ele é o único que possui os códigos para parar os bombardeiros e evitar o que provavelmente seria o início da Terceira Guerra Mundial.
The L-Shaped Room
Editor
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Lolita
Editor
Humbert é um professor europeu que muda para os Estados Unidos e aluga um quarto da viúva Charlotte, com quem acaba de casando. Porém, se apaixona pela filha sedutora de sua esposa, Lolita, de 12 anos, na esperança de tê-la só para si.
Com Milhões e Sem Carinho
Editor
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Momentos de Angústia
Editor
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
Happy Is the Bride
Editor
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
Brothers in Law
Editor
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Private's Progress
Editor
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
On Such a Night
Editor
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciate Opera.
César e Cleópatra
Ptolemy
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.