Anthony Page directed celebrated stage revivals and acclaimed TV movies and films over a six-decade career. He died September 11 in London; his work includes a Tony-winning Broadway production and Emmy-nominated television direction.
He won a Tony Award for the 1997 Broadway production of A Doll’s House and was twice Emmy-nominated for 1970s TV movies Pueblo and The Missiles of October.
Page directed the Oscar-nominated film I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) and multiple high-profile Broadway revivals in the 1990s and 2000s.
Anthony Frederick Montague Page was born September 21, 1935, in Bangalore, then part of British India. He studied at Oxford and later moved to New York to study with acting teacher Sanford Meisner. By the mid-1960s Page had built a directing career that bridged British theatre, film and television.
In the mid-1970s Page directed two high-profile television movies that earned multiple Emmy awards and nominations. He was Emmy-nominated for Pueblo (1973), which dramatized the capture of an American spy ship in North Korea, and for The Missiles of October (1975), a dramatization of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis starring Martin Sheen and William Devane.
Page directed the 1977 film I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which received an Oscar nomination and starred Kathleen Quinlan in a role about a young woman's struggle with schizophrenia. His other screen credits include a 1979 remake of The Lady Vanishes starring Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould and Angela Lansbury.
Broadway revivals and later stage highlights
Page is best known on Broadway for a string of star-driven revivals in the 1990s and 2000s. His 1997 A Doll's House, starring Janet McTeer, earned him a Tony Award. Subsequent notable Broadway credits:
Page directed a variety of television projects beyond his Emmy-recognized work. Credits include The Patricia Neal Story (1981), the Bill telefilms (1981 and 1983) about a man with intellectual disabilities starring Mickey Rooney, the 1988 Scandal in a Small Town starring Raquel Welch, seven episodes of the 1994 British miniseries Middlemarch, and the 2008 TV film My Zinc Bed, written by David Hare and starring Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine.
Stage and screen director behind landmark productions of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Edward Albee Anthony Page, who has died aged 90, was one of a group of talented and individual – sometimes wilful – directors who helped establish the English Stage Company at the Royal Court in London at the end of the 1950s and
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