Karel Reisz

Karel Reisz
Reisz in 1966
Born	(1926-07-21)21 July 1926 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
Died	25 November 2002(2002-11-25) (aged 76) Camden, London, England[1]
Spouse(s)	Julia Werthimer (m. 1953; div. 1963) Betsy Blair ​ (m. 1963)​
Children	3

Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981).