<p>As an actor Simon Callow has played the part of Dickens and performed Dickens's works; as a writer he focuses on the role of theatre in the life of the novelist, public speaker and self-styled 'Sparkler of Albion'. The result is an exuberant, passionate portrayal of Dickens and the 'abundant living' that he crammed into a relatively short life. 'Callow not only admires his subject', wrote David Edgar in the Guardian, 'but has got inside him'.</p>

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

Biographies & Memoirs

simon-callow

Arts & Literature

HarperCollins, Publishers

BEING WAGNER- HB

Harper-collins Publishers

Being An Actor

VINTAGE (RAND)

<p>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, from Amadeus to Four Weddings and a Funeral, from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls to Shakespeare in Love. Its centrepiece is a hilarious and sometimes agonising account of the making of Manifesto, shot in the former Yugoslavia. When Callow first met the film's director Duan Makavejev to discuss the movie, they both got on famously. Months later the two were barely speaking. Insightful and always entertaining, Shooting the Actor reveals more than any formal guide could about the process of film-making and the highly complex nature of being both actor and director.</p>

Shooting the Actor

Unknown

Charles Laughton

Vintage

Love Is Where It Falls

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Charles Laughton a Difficult Actor

Mandarin

Arrow Books, Ltd.

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