Anthony Harvey

Directing

Anthony Harvey

Born 1931-06-03 · London, England, UK

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 contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Lion in Winter poster
7.4

Christmas 1183, Angevin Empire: King Henry II plans to announce his successor to the throne. Jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John to take over. Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor, believes their son Prince Richard should be king. As family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option.

The Lion in Winter

1968

Eagle's Wing poster
5.4

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, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.

Eagle's Wing

1979

Grace Quigley poster
5.9

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 committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.

Grace Quigley

1985

They Might Be Giants poster
7.0

After the death of his wife, retired judge Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character. Out of concern for Justin's money more than his health, his brother Blevins puts him under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson. As Dr. Watson grows fond of Justin, she begins to play along with his theories, eventually becoming an assistant in his investigations.

They Might Be Giants

1971

Richard's Things poster
4.9

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 an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.

Richard's Things

1980

The Patricia Neal Story poster
6.5

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 Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.

The Patricia Neal Story

1981

The Abdication poster
5.6

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.

The Abdication

1974

The Disappearance of Aimee poster
8.7

In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.

The Disappearance of Aimee

1976

The Glass Menagerie poster
7.7

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

The Glass Menagerie

1973

This Can't Be Love poster
5.9

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.

This Can't Be Love

1994

Svengali poster
5.0

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. An adaptation of George L. Du Maurier's novel "Trilby"

Svengali

1983

Players poster
4.9

A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love.

Players

1979

Dutchman poster
4.8

A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.

Dutchman

1966