London's Great Theatres Av Simon Callow

Callow discusses his occasionally ambivalent yet always passionate feelings about both film and theatre, conflicting sentiments partially resolved by his acclaimed return to the stage with his solo performances in The Importance of Being Oscar and The...

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 Scarborough to his climactic...

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.

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, and the Preacher, a silhouetted...