Andrew Annandale SinclairFRSLFRSA (21 January 1935 – 30 May 2019) was a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic, filmmaker, and a publisher of classic and modern film scripts. He has been described as a "writer of extraordinary fluency and copiousness, whether in fiction or in American social history".
Andrew Sinclair
Andrew Sinclair in 2018
Born
Andrew Annandale Sinclair (1935-01-21)21 January 1935
Before going up to Cambridge, Sinclair undertook his National Service as an Ensign with the Coldstream Guards and wrote a novel based on the experience, called The Breaking of Bumbo (1958).[1] "At the age of 22, Andrew Sinclair woke up one morning to find himself, like Byron, suddenly famous".[2] In 1959 Sinclair published his second novel My Friend Judas. It was reissued in 2009 by Faber Finds along with The Breaking of Bumbo.[3]
A critical assessment of Sinclair by Bernard Bergonzi began: "From the beginning Andrew Sinclair established himself as a writer of extraordinary fluency and copiousness, whether in fiction or in American social history".[8]
Historianedit
Sinclair was a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was Director of Historical Studies at the college between 1961 and 1963. Following a year spent as a Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies, he returned to Britain to become a Lecturer in American History at University College London (UCL), working there from 1965 to 1967.[1] His writings on persons and themes of American history are identified in his bibliography, below.
Screenplay publisheredit
In 1966 Sinclair, together with the filmmaker Peter Whitehead, founded Lorrimer Publishing, which published the original screenplays of classic films. Sheridan Morley wrote: "Their format is a simple one: the script itself, with detailed descriptions where action takes over from the words, published with a brief introduction and sideline notes where necessary."[9] Some 70 filmscripts were published, including The Blue Angel and The Third Man.
Personal lifeedit
Andrew Sinclair married three times:
firstly Marianne Alexandre in 1960 (later divorced) and had one son, Timon Alexandre Sinclair;
As a result of his third marriage, Sinclair was the stepfather of Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, politician and environmentalist, and Kerena Ann Mond and Pandora Mond, the artist.[10]
Weekend and Wind From the East (Jean-Luc Godard)[15]
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Referencesedit
^ abcde"Sinclair, Andrew Annandale". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2022 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"Andrew Sinclair obituary: Polymathic novelist, speechwriter and film director whose colourful career was characterised by literary feuds and exotic marriages". The Times. London. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
^Ashgrove Publishing Ltd; Amazon: Andrew Sinclair page. ASIN 1853981893.
^Bernard Bergonzi, cited in D. L. Kirkpatrick and James Vinson (eds), Contemporary Novelists, 3rd ed. (New York: St Martin's Press, 1982), p. 588. ISBN 9780312167660
^Morley, Sheridan (2011). "Wholly Experience: Lorrimer Series Review, "Films and Filming", 1966". Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. 52 (1). Drake Stutesman; Wayne State University Press: 362–3. doi:10.1353/frm.2011.0000. JSTOR 41553490. S2CID 194097455.
^"Sinclair, Sonia Elizabeth, (Mrs A. A. Sinclair)". Who's Who. Vol. 2022 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Andrew Sinclair, The last of the best: the aristocracy of Europe in the twentieth century (London: Macmillan, 1969), p. 186
^Gale, Floyd C. (December 1961). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 144–147.
^O'Brien, Mike (6 September 2014). "Dylan on Dylan/Under Milk Wood". Take One. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^Unless further stipulated, this bibliography derives from Morsberger, Robert E.; Morsberger, Katherine M. (1975). "Screenplays as Literature: Bibliography and Criticism". Film Literature Quarterly. 3 (1). Salisbury University: 45–59. JSTOR 43795384. and/or "Classic and Modern Film Scripts (Lorrimer) - Book Series List". Retrieved 24 February 2018.
^ abSterrit, David (1999). The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible. Cambridge University Press. p. 279. ISBN 0521589711.
^Kubrick, Stanley (1972). Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange': Based on the Novel by Anthony Burgess. ISBN 978-0-85647-019-6.
^Shakespeare, William; Olivier, Laurence (1984). Henry V. ISBN 9780856470042.
^Polanski, Roman; Skolimowski, Jerzy (1984). Knife in the Water. ISBN 0856470929.
^Burton, Alan; Chibnall, Steve (2013). Historical Dictionary of British Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 537. ISBN 978-0810880269.
^Kurosawa, Akira (1984). Seven Samurai: A Film. ISBN 0856470864.
^Comden, Betty; Green, Adolph (1986). The Band Wagon. ISBN 9780856471186.
^Lania, Leo; Pabst, Georg Wilhelm; Balázs, Béla; Brecht, Bertolt; Vajda, Ladislaus (1984). The Threepenny Opera. ISBN 978-0-85647-006-6.
^ abFields, W. C. (1973). W. C. Fields in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: And Tillie and Gus. ISBN 978-0-85647-017-2.
This article incorporates a fiction bibliography from the corresponding Italian Wikipedia article as of 20 November 2010.
External linksedit
England's Greatest Tourist and Tourist Attraction: Andrew Sinclair's Gog, Magog (1967, 1972), Peter Wolfe. In Old lines, new forces: essays on the contemporary British novel, 1960–1970, Robert K Morris, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.
BBC Interview: Director Andrew Sinclair explains why Lower Fishguard was the perfect location for filming Under Milk Wood