Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Born	May 5, 1940 (1940-05-05) (age 69) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, director, writer
Years active	1965–present

Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet (born May 5, 1940) is a British television and stage director and an occasional writer and actor.

Background and early work

Lindsay-Hogg was born in New York City to actress Geraldine Fitzgerald and her first husband Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 4th Baronet. His career began directing the 1960s British rock video series Ready Steady Go!, a forerunner of MTV-type programming. This work led to an unaired television special, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968), which was finally released in 1996.

Career

Some of his notable films include Nasty Habits (1977), The Sound of Murder (1982), The Object of Beauty with Andie MacDowell and John Malkovich (1991), and Waiting for Godot (2001).

Off-Broadway, he helmed Larry Kramer's AIDS drama The Normal Heart, produced at The Public Theater by Joseph Papp in 1985. For Broadway, he directed both the original 1979 production (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award) and revival (1980) of Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Agnes of God (1982), and The Boys of Winter (1985).

Much of Lindsay-Hogg's work has been in television, most notably the first six installments of the Granada Television's highly acclaimed eleven-part series Brideshead Revisited, which aired in the US on PBS in 1981. Other credits include Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park (1982), Faerie Tale Theatre episode Thumbelina (1984), Master Harold...and the Boys with Matthew Broderick (1985), As Is (1986), Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert (1987), the series Marsalis on Music (1995), and an adaptation of Horton Foote's Alone (1997).

In 1994 he was credited for direction of A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of English rock band The Who in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. In 1994 a CD and a VHS video were issued, and in 1998 a DVD was released.

The Beatles

On 19 & 20 May 1966 Lindsay-Hogg directed two pairs of film clips (then known as "filmed inserts") to promote The Beatles current single Paperback Writer.

On 4 September 1968 at Twickenham Film Studios Hogg directed the promotional film for the new single "Hey Jude" with Paul McCartney himself designing the set. The event is also memorable as it marked Ringo Starr's return to the group after a two-week hiatus, during which he had announced that he had left the band.^[1] The final cut was a combination of several different takes, twelve having been filmed during the entire days session, according to the actor Marc Sinden who was in the film along with his brother Jeremy.^[2]

In 1970, he directed the full-length documentary Let It Be.

In 2000, he directed the VH1 television movie entitled Two of Us, named after the song of the same name, a track from The Beatles' final album, Let It Be. The movie is a fictionalized account of 24 April 1976, (six years after the break-up of The Beatles) the day Lorne Michaels made a statement on Saturday Night Live in which he offered The Beatles $3000.00 to appear on his program. The story is told through a series of conversations between John Lennon (Jared Harris) and Paul McCartney (Aidan Quinn). ^[3]

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External links

• Michael Lindsay-Hogg at the Internet Movie Database