John Schlesinger

★ Directing #535

1926 - 2003 (age 77) • Directing

Born: 2/16/1926 in London, England, UK

Died: 7/25/2003 (age 77)

Known for: Directing

John Schlesinger

★ Directing #535

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).

Known For

Midnight Cowboy

75%

Director

1969

Marathon Man

72%

Director

1976

Eye for an Eye

63%

Director

1996

Pacific Heights

63%

Director

1990

The Next Best Thing

52%

Director

2000

The Believers

59%

Director

1987

The Falcon and the Snowman

64%

Director

1985

Darling

68%

Director

1965

Innes Lloyd: The Producer

70%

Self (archive footage)

2025

The ROH Live: The Tales of Hoffmann

Director

2016

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

80%

Self (uncredited)

2002

The Next Best Thing

52%

Director

2000

The Tale of Sweeney Todd

57%

Director

1998

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

30%

Self

1998

The Twilight of the Golds

56%

Dr. Adrian Lodge

1996

The Celluloid Closet

72%

Self

1996

Eye for an Eye

63%

Director

1996

Cold Comfort Farm

68%

Director

1995

The Innocent

61%

Director

1993

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

70%

Self

1993

The Lost Language of Cranes

59%

Derek Moulthorp

1992

A Question of Attribution

68%

Director

1991

Pacific Heights

63%

Man in Elevator (uncredited)

1990

Pacific Heights

63%

Director

1990

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Director

1990

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

72%

Self

1990

Screen One

72%

Director

1989

Madame Sousatzka

69%

Director

1988

Madame Sousatzka

69%

Screenplay

1988

The Believers

59%

Director

1987

The Believers

59%

Producer

1987

Der Rosenkavalier

83%

Director

1985

The Falcon and the Snowman

64%

Director

1985

The Falcon and the Snowman

64%

Producer

1985

An Englishman Abroad

61%

Director

1983

Separate Tables

66%

Director

1983