John Sichel

John Peter Sichel was a British director of film, stage and television, and, later in life, a film, television, and theatre trainer. Early in his career, he became known for translating the classical theatre repertoire to the screen. After he directed Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson in a television version of Twelfth Night, he was asked by Laurence Olivier to direct the National Theatre Company in the film of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters with Olivier, Joan Plowright and Alan Bates.