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Anthony Harvey

Highest Rated: 98% Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Lowest Rated: 14% Players (1979)

Birthday: Jun 3, 1930

Birthplace: London, England, UK

A budding stage and screen actor who switched strides in the late 1940s, Harvey dropped out of RADA and appeared in the feature "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945) before finding work as a film editor. He worked on a number of films directed by the Boulting brothers (e.g., "Private's Progress" 1956, "Happy Is the Bride" 1958) as well as such high profile helmers as Anthony Asquith ("On Such a Night" 1955, "The Millionairess" 1960), Bryan Forbes ("The L-Shaped Room" 1962 and "The Whisperers" 1967) and Stanley Kubrick ("Lolita" 1962 and "Dr. Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" 1964). Harvey segued to directing in 1967 and displayed a sure sense of pace and an adept handler of actors with "Dutchman" (1967), starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr, and "The Lion in Winter" (1968), with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Harvey went on to collaborate with Hepburn again on the TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" (ABC, 1973) and the big screen misfire "Grace Quigley" (1985). Harvey's other films have been uneven, at best, although most feature strong performances.

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Highest-Rated Movies

98% 94% Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Watchlist
91% 90% The Lion in Winter
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91% 84% Lolita
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89% 76% I'm All Right, Jack
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80% 55% Caesar and Cleopatra
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61% 74% They Might Be Giants
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20% 39% The Millionairess
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17% Richard's Things
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14% 33% Players
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Anthony Harvey

THE LION IN WINTER, left to right: Anthony Hopkins, Katharine Hepburn, director Anthony Harvey (back), on set, 1968 CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, Anthony Harvey, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, 1945 LION IN WINTER, Anthony Hopkins, director Anthony Harvey, Katharine Hepburn, 1968 View more photos

Filmography

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This Can't Be Love 1994 Director The Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley 33% 1984 Director Svengali 8% 1983 Director The Patricia Neal Story 1981 Director Richard's Things 17% 1980 Director Eagle's Wing 25% 1979 Director Players 14% 33% 1979 Director The Disappearance of Aimee 1976 Director The Abdication 1974 Director The Glass Menagerie 64% 1973 Director They Might Be Giants 61% 74% 1971 Director The Lion in Winter 91% 90% 1968 Director Dutchman 72% 1966 Director, Film Editing The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 86% 82% 1965 Film Editing Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 98% 94% 1964 Film Editing Lolita 91% 84% 1962 Film Editing I'm All Right, Jack 89% 76% 1960 Film Editing The Millionairess 20% 39% 1960 Film Editing Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959 Film Editing Caesar and Cleopatra 80% 55% 1945 Ptolemy Actor
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