| 词条 | Anthony Simmons (writer) |
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| image = | imagesize = 150px | name = Anthony Simmons | caption = | pseudonym = Tony Simmons | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|12|16|df=y}} | birth_place = West Ham, London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|1|22|1922|12|16|df=y}} | death_place = | occupation = novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, director | nationality = British | period = | genre = | subject = }}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;[1] he said he was greatly influenced by Humphrey Jennings and by Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie Il Grido (1957).[2] Early lifeSimmons was born in West Ham, the fourth of five children – three boys and two girls – to parents of Polish 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. CareerSimmons 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."[3] His documentary Sunday by the Sea (1951) won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival.[1] 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'.[4] For several years Simmons worked in radio and made television commercials until his next feature The Optimists of Nine Elms (1973) starring Peter Sellers.[5] His feature movie Black Joy (1977) was entered into the Cannes Film Festival.[6] His television drama On Giant's Shoulders (1979) about Terry Wiles won an Emmy Award.[5] 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.[7] Personal lifeSimmons married twice. With his first wife, Sheila Phillips, he had three sons, Jonathan, Daniel and Mathew; the couple divorced. He is survived by his second wife, Maria St Clare, whom he married in 1981, and their three sons, Luke, Noah and Micah. Filmography{{div col}}
Books written
| last = Simmons | first = Anthony | title = A little Space for Issie Brown | publisher = Oxford University Press | series = | year = 1992 | doi = | isbn = 0-19-271652-2 }}
| last = Simmons | first = Anthony | title = The Optimists of Nine Elms | publisher = Knopf Books for Young Readers | series = | year = 1965 | doi = | isbn = 0-19-271652-2 }} References1. ^1 {{cite journal |url=http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1743452108000113 |title=Journal of British Cinema and Television |accessdate=26 August 2009 |doi=10.3366/E1743452108000113 |year=2008 |last1=Dolan |first1=Josephine |last2=Spicer |first2=Andrew |journal=Journal of British Cinema and Television |volume=5 |pages=132–145}} 2. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1743452108000113 |title=Journal of British Cinema and Television |accessdate=26 October 2009|volume= 5 | page= 135 |doi=10.3366/E1743452108000113 |year=2008 |last1=Dolan |first1=Josephine |last2=Spicer |first2=Andrew |journal=Journal of British Cinema and Television}} 3. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1743452108000113 |title=Journal of British Cinema and Television |accessdate=26 October 2009|volume= 5 | page= 134 |doi=10.3366/E1743452108000113 |year=2008 |last1=Dolan |first1=Josephine |last2=Spicer |first2=Andrew |journal=Journal of British Cinema and Television}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1966/film/most-promising-newcomer-to-leading-film-roles|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}} 5. ^1 {{cite journal |url=http://www.eupjournals.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1743452108000113 |title=Journal of British Cinema and Television |accessdate=26 October 2009|volume= 5 | page= 133 |doi=10.3366/E1743452108000113 |year=2008 |last1=Dolan |first1=Josephine |last2=Spicer |first2=Andrew |journal=Journal of British Cinema and Television}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2025/year/1977.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Black Joy |accessdate=10 May 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/anthony-simmons-1922-2016|title=Anthony Simmons (1922–2016)|publisher=}} External links
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