Anthony Page Dies: Tony-Winning, Emmy-Nominated Director Of Stage & Screen Was 90 — SkimNews
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- Anthony Page died September 11 at a London residential care home at age 90, with his death confirmed by press representative Jo Allan to British outlets.
- Page won the Tony Award for directing the 1997 Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" starring Janet McTeer, kicking off a string of star-driven revivals on the Great White Way.
- Page earned two Emmy nominations in the 1970s — for "Pueblo" (1973), chronicling the capture of an American spy ship in North Korea, and "The Missiles of October" (1975) starring Martin Sheen and William Devane about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis — with both productions winning multiple Emmys.
- Page directed the 1977 Oscar-nominated film "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" starring Kathleen Quinlan as a young woman struggling with schizophrenia, and later helmed 1979's "The Lady Vanishes" remake with Cybill Shepherd and Angela Lansbury.
- Page's Broadway résumé also included a 2003 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" revival starring Ashley Judd and Jason Patric, a 2005 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" with Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, and a 2009 "Waiting for Godot" featuring Nathan Lane and John Goodman.
- Born September 21, 1935, in Bangalore, British India, Page attended Oxford, studied acting with Sanford Meisner in New York, and served as co-artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre from 1969 to 1972.
- Page is survived by his husband and partner of 40 years, Kenneth Butler.
Why it matters: Page's six-decade career moved fluently between London's Royal Court, Broadway, and American prestige television — a cross-Atlantic versatility documented in productions ranging from the Emmy-winning "Pueblo" and "The Missiles of October" to his Tony-winning "A Doll's House" revival starring Janet McTeer. His death at 90 removes a director whose work shaped how Cold War crises, Ibsen, Williams, Albee, and Beckett reached Anglophone audiences across stage and screen.
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