Gambon : a life in acting

Title:

Author:

Gussow, Mel.

ISBN:

9781854597731

Personal Author:

Gussow, Mel.

Publication Date:

2004

Publication Information:

London : Nick Hern, 2004.

Physical Description:

224 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Abstract:

Born in Dublin in 1940, Michael Gambon served an engineering apprenticeship before joining Olivier's National Theatre. This book is based on the author's interviews with the actor, and reveals the motivation and passion that drives the star of 'The Singing Detective' and the Harry Potter series.

Personal Subject:

Gambon, Michael-Interviews.

Subject Term:

Actors -- Ireland -- Interviews.

Biography.

Copies:

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Summary

A unique collection of interviews with Sir Michael Gambon ranging over the past thirteen years, offering a fascinating picture of this most mischievously evasive of actors.Michael Gambon is 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 yet of a man who 'has 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 is rounded off by interviews with writers, directors and actors who have worked with him (Dennis Potter, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Simon Russell Beale, Deborah Warner, Peter Hall and Adrian Noble).

Author Notes

Michael Gambon was born in Dublin in 1940. 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. He has a passion for vintage cars and antique firearms.