Career
Some of his notable films include Nasty Habits (1977), The Sound of Murder (1982), The Object of Beauty with Andie MacDowell and John Malkovich (1991), Frankie Starlight (1995) and Waiting for Godot (2001).(Budgie 1971-72)
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 Granada Television's highly acclaimed eleven-part series Brideshead Revisited, which aired in the US on PBS in 1981. Other credits include Professional Foul by Tom Stoppard (1977), Anton Chekov's The Seagull (1978), 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), and an adaptation of Horton Foote's Alone (1997).
In 1994 he was credited for direction of A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of English rock band The Who in celebration of his fiftieth birthday. In 1994 a CD and a VHS video were issued, and in 1998 a DVD was released.
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