Individual Actors & Performers

On television, Kevin Sorbo portrayed an invincible demigod in his real life, a sudden health crisis left him partially blind and incapacitated at j...

Based on author Herbie J Pilatos exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon a Star includes insider mat...

Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared in more than 300 stage, film and te...

New York Times and USA Today BestsellerViral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, fu...

Marlon Brando was one of the most private celebrities in modern times, who only stepped into the lime light to promote a new film or causes close t...

1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became....

A sweeping Hollywood biography of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh based on new research, including exclusiv...

Fields never got around to writing his autobiography, but at his death in 1946, he left behind a vast assortment of notes, outlines, scrapbooks, le...

For more than sixty years Ken Dodd discomknockerated audiences in packed venues across Britain with his unique blend of madcap humour. Despite his ...

Born in the shadow of a dark, satanic cream cracker factory, Mike Harding struggled against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and the cat...

John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of today's five favorite movie stars. The celebrated Hollywood icon comes fully to l...

Greta Garbo first met society photographer Cecil Beaton in Hollywood in 1932. Both were caught in turbulent same-sex affairs. Yet Garbo flirted and...

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first fil...

In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean bestactors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, a...

This book is about the life and times of a Scottish actor, Iain McColl. Best know as Tam in City Lights and Dodie in Rab C. Nesbitt. Iain was b...

Oscar-winning actor, translator of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, and director of the iconoclastic The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's name a...

In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. Some forty years and 37 billion later, St...

He's the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord 'Stringer' Bell in The Wire, the obsessive Detector Chief Inspector in Luther, and now the star of the long...

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln''s death, and it still resonates ...