Biography
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 contrib...
Known For
Complete Filmography
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004
as Self
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...
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004
as Self
Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles.
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
2000
as Self
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 thi...
Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms
1996
as Self
Four-time Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn called herself a "personality" as well as an actress, and rightfully so. This biography chronicles her life a...
This Can't Be Love
1994
Director
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.
Grace Quigley
1985
Director
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 com...
Svengali
1983
Director
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. ...
The Patricia Neal Story
1981
Director
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 D...
Richard's Things
1980
Director
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 a...
Eagle's Wing
1979
Director
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, meetin...
Players
1979
Director
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.
The Disappearance of Aimee
1976
Director
In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kid...
The Abdication
1974
Director
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
The Glass Menagerie
1973
Director
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter ...
They Might Be Giants
1971
Director
After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holme...
The Lion in Winter
1968
Director
Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
The Whisperers
1967
Editor
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 st...
Giacometti
1967
Editor
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 ...
Dutchman
1966
Director, Editor
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for troubl...
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
Editor
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...
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
Editor
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 diploma...
The L-Shaped Room
1962
Editor
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. Afte...
Lolita
1962
Editor
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 Millionairess
1960
Editor
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 l...
The Angry Silence
1960
Editor
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.
Happy Is the Bride
1958
Editor
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...
Brothers in Law
1957
Editor
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...
Private's Progress
1956
Editor
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 office...
On Such a Night
1956
Editor
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciat...
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Ptolemy
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.