Anthony Page
Anthony Frederick Montague Page (21 September 1935 – 11 September 2026) was a British stage and film director.[1][2][3]
Life and career
[edit]Page was born in Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, India on 21 September 1935.[4][5]
When Page was 19, he went to Canada on a free passage with the Royal Canadian Air Force and hitchhiked to New York where he studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School.[4] In 1964, he took over directing at the Royal Court when George Devine fell ill. He directed Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson.[6]
He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1997 for A Doll's House.[5]
Page's 40-year relationship with artist Kenneth Butler was formalised by a civil partnership in 2006 and a marriage in 2014.[4][7] Page died at Denville Hall in London on 11 September 2026, aged 90.[7]
Filmography
[edit]- Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
- Male of the Species (1969)
- Pueblo (1973)
- The Missiles of October (1974)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975)
- Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976)
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
- Absolution (1978)
- The Lady Vanishes (1979)[8]
- F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
- Bill (1981)
- Johnny Belinda (1982)
- Grace Kelly (1983)
- Bill: On His Own (1983)
- Forbidden (1984)
- Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
- Second Serve (1986)
- Monte Carlo (1986) (TV miniseries)
- Pack of Lies (1987)
- Scandal in a Small Town (1988)
- The Nightmare Years (1989) (TV miniseries)
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991)
- Silent Cries (1993)
- Middlemarch (1994)
- Human Bomb (1998)
- My Zinc Bed (2008)
Select theatre credits
[edit]- Inadmissible Evidence (1965-66) - Broadway
- Heartbreak House (1983-84) - Broadway
- A Doll's House (1997) - Broadway
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2003-04) - Broadway
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005)- Broadway
- Waiting for Godot (2009) - Broadway[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Anthony Page | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ↑ "Anthony Page | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
- ↑ "Anthony Page". BFI. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017.
- 1 2 3 Coveney, Michael (18 September 2026). "Anthony Page obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- 1 2 Hall, Margaret (18 September 2026). "Tony-Winning Director Anthony Page Has Died at 90". Playbill. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ Sutcliff, Tom (4 January 1994). "By George, he's done it". The Guardian. p. 26.
- 1 2 Gumushan, Tanyel (18 September 2026). "Stage and film director Anthony Page has died aged 90". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ Vagg, Stephen (1 September 2025). "Forgotten British Film Studios: The Rank Organisation 1978-81". Filmink. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
- ↑ "Anthony Page". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
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