Individual Actors & Performers

During my first visit to the cinema the empathy I felt from Gary Cooper was life-changing, and a secret dream was born in the darkened auditorium. ...

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

Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume. Ten months after suffering a stroke, ...

Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave (b. 1957) is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic outputalways uncompromising, hypnotic, and in...

All three of Michael Palin''s bestselling diaries, covering 30 years from 1969 to 1998.Throughout his years in Monty Python, his many successful fi...

Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ev...

With over 100 movies to his credit over six decades, Hollywood legend and British national treasure Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insig...

The trade paperback reprint of James Francos thoughtful reflection on childhood through a series of personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems,...

Martin Clunes has been a familiar face on British television for almost two decades. During that period he has starred in some of the best-loved sh...

A thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-en...

Find out about his film debut at age five playing a puppy in one of his father's cult underground films, his attempt at becoming a comedian during ...

Updateddetailed biographies of the 12 actors who have played the Time Lord, including the latest, Peter CapaldiDoctor Who is the world's longest-ru...

'I'm the king of the world!' That was the cry from Leonardo DiCaprio as he stood astride the bow in Titanic - the movie that would go on to smash ...

Called the most beautiful woman in movie history, Gene Tierney starred in such 1940s classics as Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mr...

Gloriously witty, keen and spirited J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker The odds of me ever writing a book were approximate...

She's Hollywood's highest-paid female star with millions of fans all over the world and she's barely out of her teens. Emma Watson's life has been...

The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries.TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and s...

Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrichs Berlin f...

Creating a sensation with her risqué nightclub act and strolls down the Champs Elysées, pet cheetah in tow, Josephine Baker lives on in popular mem...

Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Betwe...