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Read [John French Book] # Robert Shaw: The Price of Success Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Robert Shaw: The Price of Success Alexander M. Moir said A good biography of the actor Robert Shaw. This is a biography of the actor (Jaws, From Russia with Love, etc.), playwright, novelist and sometime singer Robert Shaw. Unfortunately, I got the last copy, but I recommend hunting this volume down if you're interested in Shaw. Highly underrated for most of his life, his work was truly art and his quirky personality makes for good storytelling, at which French more often than not succeeds. Fans of his acting will be surprised t
| Title | : | Robert Shaw: The Price of Success |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (578 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1911413694 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
About the AuthorJohn French’s first job was as the house manager at the Royal Court Theatre in London. There he worked with Lindsay Anderson, Anthony Page and Bill Gaskill and actors like Paul Scofield, Rachel Roberts, Alan Bates, Diana Dors and Paul Eddington.A job at a theatrical agency followed. He has subsequently written over thirty novels (for Little Brown, Headline and Virgin) under various pseudonyms which have sold well over a million copies.In more recent years he has worked as script editor
Robert Shaw: The Price of Success is a perceptive, sympathetic, but unsparing portrait of the blessings and curses endowing this mercurial, enigmatic but deeply engaging man.. But Shaw was arguably more talented than any, a figure of extraordinary and wide-ranging promise. He wrote no less than six published novels (winning the Hawthornden Prize), while his plays include the acclaimed Man in The Glass Booth.The flipside to Shaw’s diverse abilities was his well-earned reputation as a hellraiser. He died at 51, having driven himself too hard, too fast, but unable to get past the tortured relationship to his father who had committed suicide when Shaw was just 11.Though his life ended tragically, it is fortunate that Shaw’s biographer is someone who knew him well, professionally and personally. More than just a mesmerising actor on stage and screen, he was also a gifted writer. Robert Shaw is most celebrated today as the Oscar-nominated star in movies like From Russia with Love, A Man For All Seasons, The Sting and – most memorably of all – a
Alexander M. Moir said A good biography of the actor Robert Shaw. This is a biography of the actor (Jaws, From Russia with Love, etc.), playwright, novelist and sometime singer Robert Shaw. Unfortunately, I got the last copy, but I recommend hunting this volume down if you're interested in Shaw. Highly underrated for most of his life, his work was truly art and his quirky personality makes for good storytelling, at which French more often than not succeeds. Fans of his acting will be surprised to find out some of the well-researched factoids about this jack-of-all-trades. The reader will be surprised at how wel. Sometimes interesting but VERY poorly written and edited Quite a disappointment. Although the book provides a good general overview of Robert Shaw's life and career, it skimps considerably over the parts of his life, particularly his acting roles, that would be of most interest to readers, while providing way too much attention and detail to his complicated financial and taxable-income situation, which I found highly confusing and boring. There are hardly any anecdotes provided in regards to his most notable film roles ("A Man for All Seasons", "The Sting") and absolutely none about the ill-fated filmi. Somewhere between the two bios on Robert Shaw, there is a real person. Both books should be read, but unfortunately "More Than A Life" is very hard to find and quite dear when you do. I was lucky enough to get both books.French present Shaw warts and all, so to speak. The family disapproves of this book possibly because Shaw is presented as only an Agent can do. Actors often hide things from their families that they dump all over an agent. A trusted agent often becomes a kind of sounding board and the more wretched parts of an actor's personality is shown to him b
After three years John founded his own agency and went on to represent Robert, Julie Walters, Pete Postlewaite, Zena Walker, Stephanie Beacham and film director Mike Newell.His own writing includes plays performed at the Soho Theatre, the King’s Head, the Battersea Arts Centre and many fringe venues. John French’s first job was as the house manage
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