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. Callow”s books include Being an Actor, Shooting the Actor, a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton, a biographical collection on Orson Welles (of which the first three parts have now been published), and Love is Where it Falls, an account of his friendship with the great play agent, Peggy Ramsay.
31 Ebooks tarafından Simon Callow
Orson Welles: Marching Song
Before The Cradle Will Rock, before War of the Worlds, before Citizen Kanethere was Marching Song.At the age of 25 Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as one …
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Simon Callow: My Life in Pieces
An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre. In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events w …
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Simon Callow: Love is Where it Falls
Simon Callow's candid and moving memoir of his passionate friendship with legendary literary agent Peggy Ramsay. 'This extraordinary memoir brilliantly evokes one of the most formidable and …
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Steven Paul Davies: Out at the Movies
Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community’s journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicised dramas like Victim in the 60s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 70s, and t …
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Steven Paul Davies: Out at the Movies
Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicised dramas like Victim in the 60s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 70s, …
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€15.59
Patrick Garland: The Incomparable Rex: Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison’s fifth – but not last – wife, Elizabeth said of him: ‘I was very fond of Rex before we were married, and even more fond of him after we were married – it was the bit in between that was …
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€4.49
Penelope Fitzgerald: At Freddie’s
From the Booker Prize-winner of ‘Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, in London’s W …
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€6.29
Simon Callow: Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central imp …
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€8.49
Simon Callow: Being Wagner
The perfect introduction to the Master.Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, …
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Simon Callow: Orson Welles, Volume 1
A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the …
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€11.99
Simon Callow: Orson Welles, Volume 2
The reason for the decline of Orson Welles’s career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the …
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€17.99
Simon Callow: Shooting the Actor
A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow’s classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting. The book describes his film work, fr …
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Simon Callow: Charles Laughton
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 entralling biography follows him from his parents’ hotel in …
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€10.99
Simon Callow: Orson Welles, Volume 3
In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twent …
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Various & Philip Ardagh: Love Letter to Europe
How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers inclu …
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Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWWealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded by a host of grasping, unscrupulous relatives and suspects the family vices of selfishness and greed are already showin …
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Penelope Fitzgerald: At Freddie’s
A London theater school resists the cultural shifts of the 1960s in this novel by the Booker Prize-winning author—with an introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, and London’s West E …
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€19.25
Milan Kundera: Jacques and his Master
Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining 'variation' on Diderot's novel Jacques le fataliste, written for Milan Kundera's 'private pleasure' in the …
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John-Pierre Joyce: Odd men out
From government ministers and spies to activists, drag queens and celebrities, Odd men out charts the tumultuous history of gay men in 1950s and 60s Britain. It takes us from the earliest tentative s …
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John-Pierre Joyce: Odd men out
From government ministers and spies to activists, drag queens and celebrities, Odd men out charts the tumultuous history of gay men in 1950s and 60s Britain. It takes us from the earliest tentative s …
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Michael Chekhov: To the Actor
Michael Chekhov’s classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to str …
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Michael Chekhov: To the Actor
Michael Chekhov’s classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to str …
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€46.50
Charles Dickens: The Wreck of the Golden Mary
En route to make their fortunes, the passengers of the Golden Mary suffer a terrifying ordeal when their vessel collides with an iceberg. Now the helpless victims of shipwreck, they turn to the resto …
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Callow Simon Callow: Night of the Hunter
This is an examination of ‘The Night of the Hunter’, Charles Laughton’s only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, a …
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€15.01
Callow Simon Callow: Night of the Hunter
This is an examination of ‘The Night of the Hunter’, Charles Laughton’s only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, a …
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€15.04
Olivia Colman & Simon Callow: Cartas para Olivia Colman e Simon Callow mais jovens
ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA ‘CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU’, DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA OLIVIA COLMAN E SIMON CALLOW MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a v …
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Jonathan Croall: Gielgoodies!
‘A glorious compendium of John’s scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas… He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and these utterly characteristic throwaway squibs brin …
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