 Best known for directing The Lion in Winter (1968), for which he had an Oscar nomination and won a Directors' Guild award, Anthony Harvey entered films as a child actor in Caesar and Cleopatra (d. Gabriel Pascal, 1945). He became an editor, working often on the Boulting Brothers' films of the '50s, and later on Kubrick's Dr Strangelove... (1963). The films he has directed are an eclectic lot: consider Dutchman (1966), an allegorical sex-and-race piece set on a Manhattan subway; the engaging Sherlock Holmes fantasy, They Might Be Giants (US, 1971); Eagle's Wing (1978), a Western of haunting images; and The Patricia Neal Story (1991, co-d, TV, some cinemas). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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