Alan Bridges
English TV and film director (1927–2013)
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Alan Bridges (28 September 1927 – 7 December 2013)[1] was an English television and film director.
Alan Bridges | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 September 1927 Liverpool, England |
| Died | 7 December 2013 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1961-1991 |
In 1967 Bridges directed a television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations starring Gary Bond as Pip.[2]
He won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Hireling.[3] His film Out of Season (1975) was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival,[4] and his period-costume film The Shooting Party (1985) was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.[5] For television, Bridges directed several works by David Mercer and Dennis Potter.
Peter Bradshaw on theguardian.com film blog wrote: "Bridges was a brilliant poet and cinematic satirist – in tones both mordant and melancholy – of the English class system of the early 20th century, and a director with a flair for psychology and interior crisis, as evidenced by movies like The Return of the Soldier (1982) and The Shooting Party (1985)."[6]
Selected filmography
- Act of Murder (1964)
- Invasion (1965)
- Great Expectations (TV, 1967)
- Les Miserables (TV, 1967)
- Traitor (TV, 1971)
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road (TV, 1972)
- The Hireling (1973)
- Brief Encounter (TV film, 1974)
- Joe's Ark (TV, 1974)
- Out of Season (1975)
- Little Girl in Blue Velvet (1978)
- Rain on the Roof (TV, 1980)
- The Return of the Soldier (1982)
- Pudd'nhead Wilson (TV, 1984)
- Displaced Person (TV, 1985)
- The Shooting Party (1985)
- The Tale of Pig Robinson (1990)