Tony-Winning Director Anthony Page Dies at 90

Key facts

• Anthony Page died on September 11 at Denville Hall, a residential care home for performing arts industry members.
• He was 90 years old.
• His death was confirmed by press representative Jo Allan.
• He was born in Bangalore, the son of a Brigadier General in the British army.
• He trained at Oxford and under method acting teacher Sanford Meisner.
• He served as joint artistic director of the Royal Court in London from 1969 to 1972 with William Gaskell and Lindsay Anderson.
• He directed more than 35 films and short programs for film and television, including Forbidden, Middlemarch, The Lady Vanishes, and The Middles of October.
• He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1997 for A Doll's House.
• He directed six Broadway classics: Inadmissible Evidence, Heartbreak House, A Doll's House, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the 2009 revival of Waiting for Godot.
• He worked closely with Samuel Beckett on the first British revival of Waiting for Godot.
• He directed six plays by Edward Albee on Broadway, in the West End, and at the Almeida and the National Theatre.
• He is survived by his husband of 40 years, Kenneth Butler.