LINDSAY ANDERSON 

Autograph letter, 1 page (5 3/4" x 4 1/4") on stiff correspondence card, 

with 9 Stirling Mansions - Canfield Gardens London NW6 3JT. U. K.  address

dated 23 July '90 

Signed: "Lindsay Anderson"

On verso 

To Septon, London with stamp and postal cancellation Bromley 

26 July 1990

Condition: very good

 

Lindsay Anderson was an Indian-born British film, theatre and documentary director and film

critic. One of his early short films, Thursday's Children (1954) won an Oscar for Best Documentary

Short in 1954. 

He is best remembered as a film maker for his "Mick Travis trilogy", all of which star

Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If... (1968), O Lucky Man! (1973), and Britannia Hospital

(1973). In 1981 he played the role of the Master of Caius College at Cambridge University in the 

Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire. 

Anderson's book, "About John Ford" (1983), has come

to be regarded as one of the standard books on that director and one of the best books published

by a film-maker on a film-maker.

     

Born: 1923, Bangalore, India; died: 1994, Angouleme, France.