As per our current Database, Karel Reisz has been died on 25 November 2002(2002-11-25) (aged 76)\nCamden, London, England.
When Karel Reisz die, Karel Reisz was 76 years old.
| Popular As | Karel Reisz |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 76 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 21, 1926 () |
| Birthday | July 21 |
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Karel Reisz’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Karel Reisz was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Reisz was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia of Jewish extraction. He was a refugee, one of the 669 rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton. His father was a Lawyer. He came to England in 1938, speaking almost no English, but eradicated his foreign accent as quickly as possible. After attending Leighton Park School, he joined the Royal Air Force toward the end of the war; his parents died at Auschwitz. Following his war Service, he read Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and began to write for film journals, including Sight and Sound. He co-founded Sequence with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert in 1947.
Reisz was a founder member of the Free Cinema documentary film movement. His first short film Momma Don't Allow (1955), co-directed with Tony Richardson, was included in the first Free Cinema program shown at the National Film Theatre in February 1956. His film We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959) was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the leisure life of working-class teenagers as it was, with skiffle music and cigarettes, cricket, drawing and discussion groups. The film represented Britain at the Venice Film Festival. The BBC made two follow-up films about the same people and youth club, broadcast in 1985.
His first feature film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) was based on the social-realism novel by Alan Sillitoe, and used many of the same techniques as his earlier documentaries. In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude. The film won the Grand Award for Best Feature Film at the 1961 Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
Reisz had three sons by his first wife Julia Coppard, whom he later divorced. Reisz wed Betsy Blair, former wife of Gene Kelly, in 1963 and remained married until his death.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) was probably the most successful of his later films. Adapted from the John Fowles novel by Harold Pinter, it starred Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. His last films for the cinema were Sweet Dreams (1985), based on the life of country singer Patsy Cline, and Everybody Wins (1990), with a screenplay by Arthur Miller and based on his play. He was a patron of the British Film Institute. His standard textbook The Technique of Film Editing was first published in 1953.
