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Shooting The Actor

Shooting The Actor

by Simon Callow

The classic account of filmmaking gone wrong, completely revised and expanded to include new material ...

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Simon Callow

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Simon Callow

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, Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor, Love Is Where It Falls, an account of his friendship with Peggy Ramsay, and a highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Orson Welles. The first two volumes, The Road to Xanadu and Hello Americans have been published, the third volume is due to be published in 2008.


Books by Simon Callow

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Orson Welles: Hello Americans

Orson Welles: Hello Americans

by Simon Callow

From Citizen Kane to Macbeth Simon Callow's brilliant, definitive biography of Orson Welles explores when Welles's Hollywood career came apart

Being An Actor

Being An Actor

by Simon Callow

Completely revised and expanded with entirely new material detailing Callow's relationship with the theatre in the twenty years since Being an Actor first appeared.

Shooting The Actor

Shooting The Actor

by Simon Callow

The classic account of filmmaking gone wrong, completely revised and expanded to include new material on the making of A Room with a View, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love and the 2002 ...

Books: 4
  • 1