Anthony Page, the stage and screen director behind landmark productions of Samuel Beckett, John Osborne and Edward Albee, has died aged 90.

Page belonged to a group of talented and individual — sometimes wilful — directors who helped establish the English Stage Company at the Royal Court in London at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 60s, according to his obituary in the Guardian.

The company, led by George Devine and Tony Richardson, became the seedbed of modern playwriting. Its repertoire embraced John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) alongside work by Beckett, Brecht, Ionesco, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. It also championed native voices including Arnold Wesker, Ann Jellicoe, John Arden and NF Simpson.

Page's career spanned both theatre and screen, and his productions of Beckett, Osborne and Albee are remembered as landmarks of their era. The Royal Court itself, under Devine and Richardson, reshaped British theatre in the postwar decades, giving a platform to writers who broke with convention.

The Guardian's full obituary traces Page's life and work across decades of directing for stage and screen. His death at 90 marks the passing of one of the last direct links to the founding generation of a theatre that changed the face of British playwriting.