Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if...., which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell's cinematic debut. He is also notable, though not a professional actor, for playing a minor role in the Academy Award-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Anderson, Never Apologize.
17 April 1923
Born on the same birth date (17 April 1923): Gianni Raimondi • Harry Reasoner • Neville McNamara • Solly Hemus
Born on the same birth day (17 April): A. Thiagarajah • Andrea Gritti • Demetrios Petrokokkinos • Gilles Lamontagne • Herms Niel • John McColl (British Army officer) • Malcolm Browne • Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria • Morgan Taylor • Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie • Pedro de Valdivia • Samuel Chase • Thornton Wilder
Born in the same month (April 1923): A. H. Halsey • Arch A. Moore Jr. • Carolyn Cassady • Don Adams • G. Spencer-Brown • Gene Reynolds • Gianni Raimondi • John Watkins (South African cricketer) • Melissa Hayden (dancer) • Michael V. Gazzo • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu • Percy Heath • Peter Kane Dufault • Robert DePugh • Solly Hemus • Tito Puente