Anthony Minghella Death Cause and Date

Anthony Minghella's Death

Born (Birthday) January 6, 1954

Death Date March 18, 2008

Age of Death 54 years

Cause of Death Cancer

Profession Director

The director Anthony Minghella died at the age of 54. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Acclaimed director of films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Reader, and Cold Mountain.

He married Carolyn Choa with whom he had two children.

Anthony Minghella, the British filmmaker who won an Academy Award for his direction of “The English Patient,” died Tuesday morning in London. He was 54. The cause was complications of surgery he had a week ago to treat tonsil cancer, said Leslee Dart, his publicist.

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Look at it this way: if you write the novel of ‘Cold Mountain,’ it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn’t understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it’s for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

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I don’t hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

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I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Anthony Minghella Death Cause and Date