Anthony Harvey was a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor and moved into directing in the mid-1960s.
As an editor, Harvey collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on Lolita and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films. The second film that Harvey directed, The Lion in Winter, earned him a Directors Guild of America Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Directing.
Harvey’s television credits include the made-for-TV films The Glass Menagerie, The Disappearance of Aimee, The Patricia Neal Story, and This Can’t Be Love.
Harvey died November 23, 2017, in Water Mill, New York. He was 87.