Lindsay Anderson - biography

“In the morning I feel about 50; then, depending on how the day goes, I might get down to about 22.  When I’m directing on stage, I’m 43, and 32 when I’m making a film because I feel less in control.  Acting?  Oh, then I’m 24.  And when I’m on my own, I feel about 17 and think the world is all before me.”

“Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.”

“The modern perception of British cinema has nothing to do with British films - merely in the business of getting more money through the box-office.”

Lindsay Anderson directed the following films:
Meet the Pioneers (1948)
Idlers That Work (1949)
Trunk Conveyor (1952)
Wakefield Express (1952)
Three Installations (1952)
O Dreamland (1953)
Thursday’s Children (1954)
Foot and Mouth (1955)
Energy First (1955)
£20 a Ton (1955)
A Hundred Thousand Children (1955)
The Children Upstairs (1955)
Henry (1955)
Green and Pleasant Land (1955)
Every Day Except Christmas (1957)
March to Aldermaston (1959)
This Sporting Life (1963)
The Singing Lesson (1967)
The White Bus (1967)
If.... (1968)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
In Celebration (1975)
Look Back in Anger (1980)
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Wham! in China: Foreign Skies (1984)
Wish You Were There (1985)
The Whales of August (1987)
Is That All There Is? (1993)


Lindsay Anderson has appeared in the following films:
Meet the Pioneers (1948)
Idlers That Work (1949)
Three Installations (1952)
Trunk Conveyor (1952)
The Pleasure Garden (1953)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
Is That All There Is? (1993)


Lindsay Anderson contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Meet the Pioneers (1948)
Idlers That Work (1949)
Three Installations (1952)
Trunk Conveyor (1952)
Wakefield Express (1952)
O Dreamland (1953)
Thursday’s Children (1954)
£20 a Ton (1955)
A Hundred Thousand Children (1955)
Energy First (1955)
Foot and Mouth (1955)
Green and Pleasant Land (1955)
Henry (1955)
The Children Upstairs (1955)
Every Day Except Christmas (1957)
March to Aldermaston (1959)
The Singing Lesson (1967)
The White Bus (1967)
Wham! in China: Foreign Skies (1984)
Wish You Were There (1985)
Is That All There Is? (1993)