Reisz, Karel

LC control no.	n 80112811
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Reisz, Karel *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	0000000121181013
Associated country	Great Britain
Birth date	1926-07-21
Death date	2002-11-25
Place of birth	Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Place of death	London (England)
Field of activity	Motion pictures--Production and direction Theater--Production and direction Motion picture authorship Motion picture plays
Profession or occupation	Motion picture producers and directors Theatrical producers and directors Screenwriters
Found in	The technique of film editing, 1953: t.p. (Karel Reisz) Cattini, A. Karel Reisz, 1985: t.p. (Karel Reisz) p. 7 (b. 7/21/1926) N.Y. times, Nov. 28, 2002 (Karel Reisz; a leading director of British New Wave, as well as "The French lieutenant's woman" and other Hollywood films; b. 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia; sent to England in 1938; d. Monday [Nov. 25] in London, aged 76) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 10 June, 2015 (Reisz, Karel; film and theatre director; born on 21 July 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia; at the age of twelve he joined his older brother Paul as a boarder at Leighton Park, the Quaker school in Reading; returned to Czechoslovakia, but with most of his family dead he decided to take up the chance of studying natural sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; England remained his home for the rest of his life; he taught for two years at the St Marylebone grammar school before winning a commission from the newly established British Film Academy to write a book on film editing, "The Technique of Film Editing," published in 1953; in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) he presented the work and home life of Sillitoe's hard-drinking factory worker Arthur Seaton; died on 25 November 2002 at the Royal Free Hospital, Camden, London) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77405> IMDb, October 27, 2020: (Karel Reisz; director, producer, writer)
Associated language	eng