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Carey Harrison

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The son of actor Rex Harrison and his second wife, Lilli Palmer, and the half brother of Noel Harrison, he spent the first years of his life in America, first in Hollywood, then in New York when Rex and Lilli were on Broadway, then on the French Lycee. He was educated at Sunningdale, Harrow and Cambridge. He was 12 or 13 when his parents divorced. His father married Kay Kendall and his mother married Carlos Thompson. He was further educated at boarding school and spent alternate holidays with his parents for about seven years. He shared with his father and Noel an interest in sport and often played football with The Entertainers (a Northern TV team) as a centre-forward. Carey was one of six young men out of 100's in Britain who was given a year's trainee directorship by ABC TV before it became Thames TV, but he decided that for him writing was more important. His first play was Dante Kaput and in mid '69, he was writing Shakespeare Farewell. He became a resident writer for Granada Television's experimental theatre, The Stables, which networked his play 'In a Cottage Hospital'. He lived in America with his wife and four children.
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Carey Harrison is the son of Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, and the younger (half-)brother of Noel Harrison. He attended Cambridge University.
Former film critic for the "Monthly Film Bulletin".
He once laughingly told an interviewer that his father had called him a "Communist hippy" because he liked to brew home-made beer and because he had once voted for a Labour candidate in a local council election.
He was somewhat estranged from his famous father, like his half-brother Noel Harrison.
Ex-stepson of Kay Kendall, Rachel Roberts and Elizabeth Rees.

[on "Blow-Up", 1967]: An Antonioni film where the plot is enthralling and the intellectual content banal will come as a shock to a lot of people, but it is deservedly bringing him a wider audience, since the handling of "Blow-Up" as a thriller alone merits it a special place in that genre.
[on "A Man for All Seasons", 1967]: Time after time, the history-for-schools dialogue debases the style that Zinnemann creates in the shooting, and disappoints the sensitive performances he gets from the actors.

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