Gambon
A Life in Acting
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-85459-806-6 (ISBN)
Description
A unique collection of interviews with Sir Michael Gambon, ranging over thirteen years, offering a fascinating picture of this most mischievously evasive of actors.
Michael Gambon was a notoriously private man. Yet this profile of him in his own words - assembled from interviews with drama critic Mel Gussow - offers the most complete portrait in print of an actor who had 'just about everything - enormous power, great depth, absolute expertise and the ability to illuminate a character by the simplest of means' (Harold Pinter).
The book also contains interviews with writers, directors and actors who worked with him (Dennis Potter, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Simon Russell Beale, Deborah Warner, Peter Hall and Adrian Noble).
'Gambon emerges from this entertaining book as a master of understatement, but not of underaction... illuminating flashes of what makes an actor tick' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week'
Michael Gambon was a notoriously private man. Yet this profile of him in his own words - assembled from interviews with drama critic Mel Gussow - offers the most complete portrait in print of an actor who had 'just about everything - enormous power, great depth, absolute expertise and the ability to illuminate a character by the simplest of means' (Harold Pinter).
The book also contains interviews with writers, directors and actors who worked with him (Dennis Potter, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Simon Russell Beale, Deborah Warner, Peter Hall and Adrian Noble).
'Gambon emerges from this entertaining book as a master of understatement, but not of underaction... illuminating flashes of what makes an actor tick' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week'
Reviews / Votes
"'Gambon emerges from this entertaining book as a master of understatement, but not of underaction... illuminating flashes of what makes an actor tick' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week'"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
292 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85459-806-6 (9781854598066)
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Person
Michael Gambon (1940-2023) was born in Dublin With no formal training he talked his way into Olivier's National Theatre in 1963. Roles at the RSC and in the West End followed, as well as film and TV work, most famously in The Singing Detective. He was knighted in 1998.
Mel Gussow (1933-2005) was a writer and drama critic who wrote for the New York Times for 35 years.
Mel Gussow (1933-2005) was a writer and drama critic who wrote for the New York Times for 35 years.