John Richard Schlesinger, CBE (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director.

Early life

Schlesinger was born in London into a middle class Jewish family,Obituary: John Schlesinger, filmmaker, 1926-2003 the son of Winifred Henrietta (née Regensburg) and Bernard Edward Schlesinger, a physician.John Schlesinger Biography (1926-) After Uppingham School and graduating from Balliol College, Oxford, he worked as an actor.