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The Long Distance Runner: An Autobiography
Tony Richardson died on November 14, 1991. This book was discovered on the day of his death, hidden at the back of the same dark cupboard where he kept his Oscars. As his daughter Natasha movingly writes in her foreword, it is an "entertaining, humorous, and very personal account of the people and places he loved, the films he made, and the things that were important to hi
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Hardcover
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First Edition
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368 pages
Published
1993
by William Morrow & Company
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A cracking autobiography, this. Richardson, the son of a humble chemist, certainly ended up a long way from home as he eventually became a Hollywood director. On the way, his restless curiosity led him to travel and make films all over the world, producing an almost uniquely diverse body of work in the process. He has loads of great stories about the famous actors he worked with, etc (Ian Bannen and Hugh Griffith sound especially bonkers). Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in film or
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