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 news outlets.
- Page won the Tony Award for his 1997 Broadway production of A Doll's House starring Janet McTeer, who was herself Tony-nominated for the role.
- Page earned two Emmy nominations for directing 1973's Pueblo (chronicling the capture of an American spy ship in North Korea) and 1975's The Missiles of October starring Martin Sheen and William Devane about the Cuban missile crisis — both projects won 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.
- Page's later Broadway revivals included Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2003) with Ashley Judd and Jason Patric, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2005) with Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, and Waiting for Godot (2009) with Nathan Lane and John Goodman.
- Page was born September 21, 1935, in Bangalore, British India, attended Oxford, studied with Sanford Meisner in New York, and served as co-artistic director of London's Royal Court Theatre from 1969 to 1972.
Why it matters: Page's six-decade career bridged Oscar-nominated film, Cold War-era political TV dramas, and star-laden Broadway revivals — a range few directors match. His death removes a versatile link between British stage tradition and American prestige television, and he is survived by his husband Kenneth Butler after 40 years together.
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