Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet (born May 5, 1940 in New York City to actress Geraldine Fitzgerald and her first husband Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, Bt.) is an American television and stage director and an occasional writer and actor.

His career began directing the 1960s British rock video series Ready, Steady, Go!, a forerunner of MTV-type programming. His work led to a television special, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968), which was incorporated into a feature film of the same name released in 1996, followed by the full-length documentary Let It Be (1970). Additional films include Nasty Habits (1977), The Sound of Murder (1982), The Object of Beauty with Andie MacDowell and John Malkovich ( 1991), and Waiting for Godot (2001).

Off-Broadway, he helmed Larry Kramer's AIDS drama The Normal Heart, produced at The Public Theater by Joseph Papp in 1985. For Broadway, he directed both the original 1979 production (for which he was nominated for a Tony Award) and revival (1980) of Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Agnes of God (1982), and The Boys of Winter (1985).

Much of Lindsay-Hogg's work has been in television, most notably the first six installments of the BBC's highly acclaimed eleven-part series Brideshead Revisited, which aired in the US on PBS in 1981. Other credits include Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park (1982), Faerie Tale Theatre episode Thumbelina (1984), Master Harold...and the Boys with Matthew Broderick (1985), As Is ( 1986), Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert ( 1987), the series Marsalis on Music (1995), an adaptation of Horton Foote's Alone ( 1997), and Two of Us (2001), based on the 1976 reunion of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, with Jared Harris and Aidan Quinn as the musical duo.

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Lindsay-Hogg
Baronet
(of Rotherfield Hall)
1999–present
Succeeded by
Incumbent
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