{{Short description|British screenwriter, film director, and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person |name = Anthony Aikman |image = AnthonyAikman.png |image_size = 220px |alt = |caption = Aikman at the book launch for ''The Eye of Itza'', 1986 |birth_name = Anthony Robert Aikman |birth_date = 3 February 1942 |birth_place = London, England |death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|07|08|1942|02|03|df=y}} |death_place = Chiang Mai, Thailand |citizenship = |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = University of Wales |employer = |occupation = |years_active = |height = |title = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |awards = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = {{URL|anthonyaikman.frogbox.co.uk}} }} '''Anthony Robert Aikman''' (3 February 1942{{spaced ndash}}8 July 2011) was a British screenwriter, film director, and author.<ref name="StMargarets">{{Cite web |url=https://www.stmargaretshistory.org.uk/catalogue_item/anthony-aikman-village-resident-signing-copies-of-his-latest-book-at-deal-castle-in-1987 |title=Anthony Aikman signing copies of his latest book at Deal Castle. 1987 |website=stmargaretshistory.org.uk |access-date=29 June 2025 |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226114436/https://www.stmargaretshistory.org.uk/catalogue_item/anthony-aikman-village-resident-signing-copies-of-his-latest-book-at-deal-castle-in-1987 |url-status=live }}</ref>
He is best known as the director of the 1972 art film ''The Genesis Children''.
==Personal life== Aikman was born in 1942 in a London air raid shelter<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://anthonyaikman.frogbox.co.uk/Biography.htm |title=Anthony Aikman.co.uk |website=anthonyaikman.frogbox.co.uk |access-date=29 June 2025}}</ref> and grew up in St Margaret's at Cliffe in Kent. By his own admission, he did not learn to read or write until the age of 11.<ref name="StMargarets" /> He studied forestry at the University of Wales and graduated in 1962.<ref name="StMargarets" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90001311.html |title=Aikman, Anthony |website=Library of Congress |access-date=29 June 2025 |archive-date=18 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518044441/https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90001311.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A perpetual traveler, he lived in numerous countries throughout his life.<ref name="StMargarets" /><ref name="DoverExpress">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/813891232 |title=Rebel author who defies analysis |newspaper=Dover Express |date=18 March 1988 |page=52 |via=newspapers.com |access-date=29 June 2025}}</ref>
He died in Thailand on 8 July 2011.<ref name="StMargarets" />
==Books== * ''The Caves of Segada'', Robert Hale, 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-7090-2343-2}} * ''The Eye of Itza'', Robert Hale, October 23, 1986, {{ISBN|978-0-7090-2750-8}} * ''The Brokers of Doom'', Robert Hale, 1987, {{ISBN|978-0-7090-28741}} The foregoing three books form a trilogy. * ''Treehouses'', Robert Hale, 1988, {{ISBN|978-0-7855-3314-6}} * ''The Farang'', Oldham Books, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-473-01654-8}} * ''Jim Tully'', White Lotus Press, 1995, {{ISBN|978-9748496467}} * ''The Black Swan'', Post Books, 1999, {{ISBN|978-974-202-049-1}} * ''Boy, Doc, and the Green Man: Also the Fire-eater: a Short Story'', Post Books, 2000, {{ISBN|978-974-228-006-2}} * ''Broken Guts (Tong Sia!): A 'Rough' Medical Guide for Foreign Travellers in Thailand and S.E. Asia'', BookSurge, May 31, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1419668333}} and many more articles and short stories.
==Filmwork== ===Screenplay-director=== * ''The Genesis Children'', 1971<ref name="DoverExpress" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/226657/Anthony-Aikman |title=Anthony Aikman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102101338/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/226657/Anthony-Aikman |archive-date=2 November 2012 |access-date=29 June 2025 |website=The New York Times |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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