Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg 5th Baronet |
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May 5, 1940 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director (film, music video, stage and television) |
| Years active | 1965–present |
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Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet (born May 5, 1940) is an American television, film, music video, and theater director. Beginning his career in British television, Lindsay-Hogg became a pioneer in music video production, directing promotional films by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Following his work with these bands, he branched out into film and theater, while still maintaining successful careers in television and music video production.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg was born in New York City to actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, and was educated at Trinity School in New York and at Choate School in Connecticut. For most of his early life, he understood that his father was Fitzgerald's husband, Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, to whom she was married until 1946. When Lindsay-Hogg was 16 his mother reluctantly divulged that there were pervasive rumors that his father was Orson Welles, and she denied them — but in such detail that he was left confused and dubious. Fitzgerald evaded the subject for the rest of her life. Lindsay-Hogg knew Welles, worked with him in the theatre and met him at intervals throughout Welles's life. After he learned that Welles's oldest daughter Chris, his childhood playmate, had long suspected that he was her brother, Lindsay-Hogg initiated a DNA test that proved inconclusive. In his 2011 autobiography Lindsay-Hogg reported that his questions were resolved by his mother's close friend Gloria Vanderbilt, who wrote that Fitzgerald had told her that Welles was his father. A 2015 Welles biography by Patrick McGilligan, however, reports the impossibility of Welles's paternity: Fitzgerald left the U.S. for Ireland in May 1939 and was pregnant at the time she returned in late October, while Welles did not travel overseas during that period.
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