Download or read book British Film Character Actors written by Terence Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Who s who of British Film Actors written by Scott Palmer and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Film Character Actors written by Terence Pettigrew and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informed, highly readable account of 65 great British cinema character actors recalls such highlights of film history as Alec Guiness's obdurate commanding officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai, the chilling screen presence of Peter Cushing, and the hilarious bungling of Ian Carmichael in I'm All Right Jack.
Download or read book British Film Actors Credits 1895 1987 written by Scott Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are nearly 5,000 performers listed here, along with a quarter of a million film titles. The book is divided into two parts; the sound era, which has most of the entries, and the silent era, with about 700 names. Actors listed in this second section made no appearances after 1928. Actors whose careers spanned both talking films (which began in Britain in 1929) and silents are listed in the larger first section. Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Australian, Canadian, South African, and other British Commonwealth performers are included; British-born actors whose films were made outside the United Kingdom (as in Hollywood) and those born in foreign countries who filmed in Britain are also included. Birth and death dates are given when they could be traced. A brief character description is followed by the list of films, in chronological order. Original film titles and the year they were completed are also included.
Download or read book Quinlan s Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors written by David Quinlan and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to over 1100 character actors and actresses. The people covered include John le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Dora Bryan and Sam Kydd from the British studios; and Elisha Cook, Iris Adrian, Hattie McDaniel and Irving Bacon from Hollywood. There is a portrait to accompany every entry. After a short account of each actor's career and characteristics, all their known film credits are given, including many fleeting appearances never previously recorded, plus shorts and TV movies.
Download or read book Quinlan s Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors written by David Quinlan and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Quinlan's illus. directory of film stars. B/W photos.
Download or read book The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Movie Character Actors written by David Quinlan and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journeys of Desire written by Alastair Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to European actors in American film, this book brings together 15 chapters with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals. It includes case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the emigres, such as the stereotyping of European actresses in 'bad women' roles, and the irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis.
Download or read book Idols of the Odeons written by Andrew Roberts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idols of the Odeons examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch and Peter Sellers. Such extremely diverse careers provide the opportunity to explore overlooked films, in addition to examining how the term ‘star’ could apply to a stalwart leading man, a Variety comic, a self-created ‘Vamp’ and a character actor. Above all, this is a book that celebrates, with idiosyncratic humour and warmth, how these actors accomplished much of their best work during the transitional period between the Rank/ABPC roster of stars and the US domination of the British film industry.
Download or read book Quinlan s Character Stars written by David Quinlan and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 1200 entries for character actors from American and British studios. Each entry includes a brief biographical sketch, a photograph, and a listing of all the actor or actresses' movie performances.
Download or read book Movie Acting the Film Reader written by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining classic and recent essays and examining key issues such Movie Acting, the Film Reader explores one of the most central but often overlooked aspects of cinema: film acting.
Download or read book The Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors written by David Quinlan and published by B T Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to over 850 character actors and actresses. The people covered include John le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Dora Bryan and Sam Kydd from the British studios, and Elisha Cook, Iris Adrian, Hattie McDaniel and Irving Bacon from Hollywood. There is a photograph to accompany every entry in the book. After a short account of each actor's career and characteristics, all their known film credits are given, including many fleeting appearances never previously recorded, plus shorts and TV movies.
Download or read book The Filmgoer s Companion written by Leslie Halliwell and published by London : MacGibbon & Kee. This book was released on 1967 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Hollywood Loved Britain written by Mark Glancy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hollywood Loved Britain examines the Hollywood "British" film--American feature films that were set in Britain, based on British history or literature and included the work of British producers, directors, writers and actors. "British" films include many of the most popular and memorable films of the 1930s and 1940s, yet they have received little individual attention from film historians and even less attention as a body of films. While the book is centered on wartime "British" films, it also investigates wider issues: the influence of censorship and propaganda agencies during Hollywood’s studio era, studio finances, the isolationist campaign in the United States between 1939 and 1941, and American perceptions of Britain at war.
Download or read book That Despicable Race written by Bryan Forbes and published by London : Elm Tree Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black in the British Frame written by Stephen Bourne and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of Stephen Bourne's acclaimed and award-winning study, the author takes a personal look at the history of black people in popular British film and television. He documents, from original research and interviews, experiences and representations which have been ignored in previous media books about people of African descent. There are chapters about Paul Robeson, silent films, soap operas and much more--as well as several useful appendices including award winners and suggestions for further reading.
Download or read book The Price of Fame written by Elaine Parker and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming, erudite, and the very personification of the English gentleman, Dennis Price was without doubt also one of the most promising and talented newcomers to the world of theatre and film in the late 1930s, and he arguably reached his screen best in the classic Ealing comedy 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. Huge praise was lavished upon him and he was compared alongside theatrical contemporaries Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson as being destined for great things. Scene-stealing performances followed over the next few decades in such differing films as 'The Dancing Years', 'The Intruder', 'Private's Progress', 'The Naked Truth', 'Tunes of Glory', 'Tamahine' and 'Theatre of Blood', to name but a few. Though whilst his career was blossoming his private life was going through turmoil when, after one of his several affairs was discovered by his wife, he faced the shame of divorce, separation from his two children and when coupled with significant tax bills, it all proved too much and the actor attempted suicide. Eventually bouncing back, he reinvented himself as a character actor and appeared in scores of notable films-and was often the best thing in them!
