Individual Actors & Performers

Robert Downey, Jr., may be best known as Iron Man, but his career as an actor stretches back to the 1980s and features several Oscar-quality roles....

When Simon Cadell announced to the world that he may have only days to live, it signalled the end of a twenty-year stage career that had just seen ...

In this absorbing and surprising memoir, one of the biggest names of classic Hollywood-the star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie-tells he...

Award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the ...

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African America...

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginn...

Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. She went from being a...

From risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subcult...

Sadie''s childhood was anything but conventional and she learned from and early age what it was like to be different: she lived in a hippy commune ...

A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all timeBruce Lee.Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dra...

The New York Times number one bestseller from the Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation star.In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated memoir, Yes...

With more than 130 films and a career spanning four decades, Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) was one of the most controversial actors of his generation...

Here for the first time is the complete, captivating story of an on-set romance that turned into a lifelong love story between silver screen legend...

Im just a cosmic yob, I suppose.I change every day. Im not outrageous. Im David Bowie.Im an instant star. Just add water and stir.Genre-hopping, ge...

Wild and Crazy Guys is the larger-than-life story of the much-loved Hollywood comedy stars that ruled the 1980s. This paperback edition features ne...

As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been i...

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett ...