Charles Laughton
A Difficult Actor
$38.85
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2012
Summary
A definitive biography of one of the twentieth century’s finest actors and directors, written with great insight and verve by Simon Callow, and reissued here with a new preface.
The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII, and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton’s career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles. This enthralling biography follows him from his parents’ hotel in Scarborough to his climactic assumption of the role of King Lear in Stratford at the end of his life. Along t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099581956 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099581957 |
| Author: | Simon Callow |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
One of the very best theatre books ever – Alec GuinnessRemarkable…extraordinarily well written, perceptive and rivetingly sympathetic – John GielgudSimon Callow is a writer - and a very good one too. Few people can match him in catching with words the physical excitement of a great performance – Peter HallCallow’s emphatic biography certainly presents this complicated man in all his contradictory roles – Sally Morris * Daily Mail *a fine character actor’s tribute to the king of the tribe. The numerous insights show Callow to be that rarity, an actor who can write about acting – Jake Kerridge * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Simon Callow
Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared on the stage and in many films, including the hugely popular Four Weddings and a Funeral. His books include Being an Actor, Shooting the Actor, Love is Where it Falls, the first two volumes of his four-volume life of Orson Welles, his theatrical memoir My Life in Pieces, and, most recently, the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.
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