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In this rollicking memoir, Cleese takes his readers on a Grand Tour of his ascent in the entertainment world, from his humble beginnings in a sleepy English town and his early comedic days at Cambridge University (with future Python partner Graham Chapman), to the founding of th…
Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles.
Strolling Player - the life and career of Albert Finney.
Albert Finney was a Salford-born, homework-hating bookie's son who broke the social barriers of British film. He did his share of roistering, and yet outlived his contemporaries and dodged typecasting to become a five-time Oscar nominee and one of our most durable international …
There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and mountaineer. He's also a brilliant storyteller who will - and you must brace yourself - simply leap out of the pages at you. Ready? Then…
There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and mountaineer. He's also a brilliant storyteller who will - and you must brace yourself - simply leap out of the pages at you. Ready? Then…
Drawing on recently released or previously neglected archive material, this book is the first dedicated to the stage career of Cicely Hamilton (1872?1952). Best known for her work with the women?s suffrage movement, Hamilton was at the same time deeply committed to the commercia…
This book presents a pioneering survey of the professional career of a woman better known as a campaigner for women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. It uses archive material to construct a chronology of productions in which she was involved either as author or actress …
All his life, Anthony Hopkins has wrestled with a dual personality. He is, as he himself admits, part dedicated craftsman, part wild boy. Like fellow Welshman Richard Burton, with whom he studiously avoids comparison, Hopkins has been plagued by temperament, drink problems and e…
"All his life, Anthony Hopkins has wrestled with a dual personality. He is, as he himself admits, part dedicated craftsman, part wild boy. Like fellow Welshman Richard Burton, with whom he studiously avoids comparison, Hopkins has been plagued by temperament, drink problems and …
