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Also Known As	Lindsay Gordon Anderson
Born	April 17, 1923 • India
Died	August 30, 1994 (aged 71) • near Angoulême • France
Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1955)
Notable Works	“Britannia Hospital” • “O Lucky Man!” • “The Whales of August” • “This Sporting Life”
Movement / Style	Free Cinema

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Lindsay Anderson sits backward on a wooden chair, resting his arms on the chair back and looking slightly upward, in a black and white portrait from 1971.

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