Alan Bridges | |
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Born | Liverpool, England | 28 September 1927
Died | 7 December 2013 86) | (aged
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1961-1991 |
Alan Bridges (28 September 1927 – 7 December 2013) [1] was an English film and television director.
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 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]
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