Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey (1930–2017) was a British film director and editor best known for The Lion in Winter (1968). Born in London, he gave a brief childhood performance in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) before learning the craft of editing under the Boulting Brothers, splicing film by hand. He went on to edit notable features including Bryan Forbes's The L-Shaped Room, and worked with Stanley Kubrick as the editor on both Lolita and Dr. Strangelove. His first feature as director, the short The Dutchman (1966), adapted from a play by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), so impressed Peter O'Toole that he brought Harvey onto The Lion in Winter, the medieval-court drama with O'Toole as Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine. The film won three Academy Awards and earned Harvey a Best Director nomination.