From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Anthony Harvey (born 3 June 1931) was a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor, and moved into directing in the mid 1960s. Harvey had fifteen film credits as an editor, and he directed thirteen films. The second film that Harvey directed, The Lion in Winter (1968), earned him a Directors Guild of America Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Directing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Harvey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.