Career
Anderson's earliest films were non-nonfictional prose documental shorts; his film ''Thursday's Toddler won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short around 1954. He was a share of the British Free cinema movement during the 1950s along with Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson. Anderson is better remembered internationally for his "Mick Travis" trilogy of feature, tons of which star Malcolm McDowell as Travis: If...., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

An significant British director, he was yearn associated by having a Royal Court Theatre, directing premier productions of plays by David Storey, among others.

Anderson was too the large film critic, associated sustaining Sequence magazine (1947-52) & later on Sight and Sound. Anderson developed an acquaintance sustaining John Ford, which led to him writing one of the standard books on it director.

Filmography
This Sporting Life (1963) The Singing Lesson (1967) If.... (1968) O Lucky Man! (1972) In Celebration (1974) Red White and Zero (1979) Britannia Hospital (1982) The Whales of August (1987)

Documentary and TV

Meet the Pioneers (1948) Idlers that Work (1949) Three Installations (1951) Wakefield Express (1952) Thursday's Child (1953) O Dreamland (1953) Truck Conveyor (1954) Foot and Mouth (1955) A Hundred Thousand Children (1955) The Children Upstairs (1955) Green and Pleasant Land (1955) Henry (1955) £20 a Ton (1955) Energy First (1955) Every Day Except Christmas (1957) March to Aldermaston (1959) The Old Crowd (1979) Glory! Glory! (1989)

Bibliography

Astir Ford (1983) ISBN 0859650146 A Diaries of Lindsay Anderson ed. Paul Sutton (2004) ISBN 0413773973 Never Apologise: A Gathered Writings of Lindsay Anderson'' (2004) ISBN 085965317X

SEE As well: [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/ukbib.html#anderson Lindsay Anderson Bibliography] (via UC Berkeley)