Anthony Harvey

Anthony Harvey

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.

  • Title: Anthony Harvey
  • Popularity: 0.1866
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1931-06-03
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Anthony Harvey Movies

  • 1945
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    Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar and Cleopatra

    6.2 1945 HD

    The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

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  • 1996
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    Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms

    Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms

    5 1996 HD

    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.

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  • 2004
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    Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

    Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

    5.8 2004 HD

    Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles.

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  • 2004
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    No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

    No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

    5 2004 HD

    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.

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  • 2000
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    The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove

    The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove

    5.1 2000 HD

    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.

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  • 1962
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    Lolita

    Lolita

    7.3 1962 HD

    Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

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  • 1964
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    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    8.1 1964 HD

    After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

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  • 1960
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    The Millionairess

    The Millionairess

    5.4 1960 HD

    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.

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  • 1965
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    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

    The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

    7.1 1965 HD

    British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

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  • 1971
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    They Might Be Giants

    They Might Be Giants

    7 1971 HD

    After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character. Out of concern for Justin's money more than his health, his brother Blevins puts him under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson. As Dr. Watson grows fond of Justin, she begins to play along with his theories, eventually becoming an assistant in his investigations.

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  • 1966
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    Dutchman

    Dutchman

    4.6 1966 HD

    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.

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  • 1966
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    Dutchman

    Dutchman

    4.6 1966 HD

    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.

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  • 1968
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    The Lion in Winter

    The Lion in Winter

    7.375 1968 HD

    Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.

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  • 1967
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    The Whisperers

    The Whisperers

    6.4 1967 HD

    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.

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  • 1960
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    The Angry Silence

    The Angry Silence

    7.212 1960 HD

    When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.

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  • 1973
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    7.6 1973 HD

    Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a gentleman caller appears, things move to crisis point.

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  • 1985
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    Grace Quigley

    Grace Quigley

    5.9 1985 HD

    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.

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  • 1979
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    Eagle's Wing

    Eagle's Wing

    5.2 1979 HD

    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.

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  • 1983
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    Svengali

    Svengali

    4.8 1983 HD

    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"

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  • 1981
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    The Patricia Neal Story

    The Patricia Neal Story

    5 1981 HD

    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.

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  • 1976
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    The Disappearance of Aimee

    The Disappearance of Aimee

    8 1976 HD

    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.

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  • 1979
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    Players

    Players

    4.1 1979 HD

    A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.

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  • 1994
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    This Can't Be Love

    This Can't Be Love

    5.7 1994 HD

    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.

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  • 1958
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    Happy Is the Bride

    Happy Is the Bride

    6.2 1958 HD

    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.

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  • 1980
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    Richard's Things

    Richard's Things

    4.591 1980 HD

    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.

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  • 1974
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    The Abdication

    The Abdication

    5.182 1974 HD

    Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.

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  • 1962
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    The L-Shaped Room

    The L-Shaped Room

    6.8 1962 HD

    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.

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  • 1957
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    Brothers in Law

    Brothers in Law

    7.1 1957 HD

    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.

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  • 1967
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    Giacometti

    Giacometti

    1 1967 HD

    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.

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  • 1956
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    Private's Progress

    Private's Progress

    6.6 1956 HD

    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.

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  • 1956
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    On Such a Night

    On Such a Night

    1 1956 HD

    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.

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  • 1959
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    Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

    Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

    5.9 1959 HD

    Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.

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