Anthony Simmons
Director
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Anthony Simmons (16 December 1922 – 22 January 2016) was a British writer and film director. He was associated with, though separate from, the Free Cinema movement; he said he was greatly influenced by Humphrey Jennings and by Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie Il Grido (1957).
Simmons was born in West Ham, then in Essex, now part of the London Borough of Newham, the fourth of five children – three boys and two girls – to parents of Polish-Jewish extraction, Miriam (née Corb) and Joseph Simmons (originally Anzulowsky), from a family of market traders. He was named Isidore but adopted the forename Anthony in his teens. After attending West Ham Grammar School, Simmons gained a law degree from the London School of Economics, where his course was interrupted by wartime service.
Simmons asserted: "I wasn’t aiming to be a film director. I was a lawyer aiming to be a writer. But I felt that if I wrote films it was more immediate. It’s quicker. You haven’t got to spell out the words, you just make the image and tell the story."
His documentary Sunday by the Sea (1951) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival. Four in the Morning (1965), his second feature film as director, did not gain a circuit release although it won awards at several international film festivals, and a BAFTA for Judi Dench as the 'Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles'.
For several years Simmons worked in radio and made television commercials until his next feature The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973) starring Peter Sellers. His feature movie Black Joy (1977) was entered into the Cannes Film Festival. His television drama On Giant's Shoulders (1979) about Terry Wiles won an Emmy Award.
He also directed episodes of British television series including The Professionals, Supergran, Inspector Morse, Van Der Valk, A Touch of Frost and C.A.T.S. Eyes.
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The Professionals
Director
A Touch of Frost
Escritor, Director
Van der Valk
Director
BBC2 Play of the Week
Director, Escritor
Green Ice
Guionista
Time Without Pity
Productor
Black Joy
Director, Escritor
Poison Candy
Director, Guionista
Four in the Morning
Guionista, Director, Historia
The Optimists of Nine Elms
Director, Novela
The Passing Stranger
Original Story
Life After Death
Director
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Director
From First to Last
Director, Escritor
On Giant's Shoulders
Adaptation, Director
Your Money or Your Wife
Director
No Short Cut
Director, Script
Sunday by the Sea
Director, Escritor
Bow Bells
Director, Escritor