Karel Reisz

Birthday: 21 July 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

Karel Reisz was born on July 21, 1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. He was a director and producer, known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and Swee ...Show More

[on Fred Astaire] Astaire is the motherless man-about-town, all sophistication quite debonair, yet w Show more [on Fred Astaire] Astaire is the motherless man-about-town, all sophistication quite debonair, yet with a lope in his walk rather than a swagger, for -- despite his receding hair -- he is essentially boyish, youthful, innocent. Hide

(On being asked how he managed to get the script to "Morgan" green-lighted for production): Well, I Show more (On being asked how he managed to get the script to "Morgan" green-lighted for production): Well, I was the head of the distribution company, so it really wasn't that difficult. Hide

Karel Reisz's FILMOGRAPHY

as Director (3) as Creator (1)

Sweet Dreams

The French Lieutenants Woman

Isadora