Larger than life character actor Sydney Greenstreet didn’t make his screen debut until he was 61 and although his film career wasn’t long it was certainly...
In the late 80’s and early 1990’s Kevin Costner was arguably the most popular actor in the world, a string of big successes gave him a...
Considered among the finest screen actors in film history, Robert De Niro’s talent lies in what he does not allow the audience to see. “People don’t...
Judy Garland was one of the best loved stars from the golden age of Hollywood and is often seen as one of it’s greatest victims. It...
The many faces, male and female, of comedian Dick Emery. Who were the principal characters? Maybe because he was married five times, Dick Emery was particularly...
Gene Kelly for a period in the 1940’s and early 1950’s made a superb series of musicals that remain at the very pinnacle of the genre,...
King of late 1970’s and early 1980’s comedy and horror movies John Landis made an immediate impression with his 1977 movie The Kentucky Fried Movie, and...
During his long career Irish-American director John Ford (1895-1973) made over 125 feature films including a whole batch of westerns during the Silent era and it...
An early screen test of Fred Astaire’s was marked “can’t sing, can’t act, can dance a little” – well how far did a little dancing skill...
Just as vital to the success of the Bond movies as James himself is the Bond girl and in the sixties and seventies we were given...