Description
After leaving Nazi Germany in 1936, the actor now known as Anton Walbrook settled in Britain, where he starred in lavish biopics of Queen Victoria as well as Dangerous Moonlight and Gaslight. Despite great popularity and a prolific career, Walbrook's persona had an aura of mystery. This is the first full-length biography of the star.
Author: Andrea Hammel, James Downs
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: 12/14/2020
Pages: 438
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9781789977103
ISBN10: 178997710X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Performing Arts | Theater | General
- History | General
About the Author
Dr James Downs is an archivist in the University of Exeter's Special Collections Department, also home to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, where he previously worked for almost a decade. He has written and presented conference papers about Walbrook on several occasions as well as being interviewed at the actor's grave for the «Life and Death in Hampstead Sound Trail» and curating the 2013 exhibition «Anton Walbrook - Star and Enigma.» In addition to teaching film adaptation and cataloguing archival material relating to other German émigrés, he has written two books and over thirty articles on a range of topics relating to the history of film and photography, visual culture and religious history, and since 2018 he has been the editor of the magazine Photographica World.
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