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“cliff goodwin”

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  • Evil Spirits

    The Life of Oliver Reed

    by Cliff Goodwin ...
    In May 1999, after a 40-year career including 100 films, Oliver Reed died, as he had invariably lived, drinking with friends while making a film - his well-reviewed performance in the blockbuster Gladiator. Having risen through Hammer Horror films to international stardom as Bill Sykes in Oliver!, Reed became, in his own works, 'the biggest star this country has got'. With his legendary off-screen ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Sid James: A Biography

    by Cliff Goodwin ...
    Covering Sid's early years in South Africa and life as a ladies' hairdresser, his obsession with gambling and women, his questioning by Scotland Yard in a murder case, Hancock's Half Hour and the Carry On films, and Sid's death on stage at the age of 63, Cliff Goodwin reveals the amazing truth behing the legend. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Behaving Badly: Richard Harris

    by Cliff Goodwin ...
    Richard Harris was never an easy person to get along with. He was a difficult schoolboy (and was later disowned by his Limerick teachers), then he went to work in the family flour and milling business - where he organised a strike against his father.It was as a gifted and compelling actor that Richard Harris dominated stage and screen for more than four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar twice ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Comedy Pick’n’Mix

    Eight BBC Radio Productions

    by Bill Dare, Helen Arney, Matt Parker, Steve Mould, Barney Fishwick, Jack Chisnall, Joel Morris, Jason Hazeley, Jack Bernhardt, Cliff Kelly, Adam Goodwin, Dan Clark ...
    Narrated by Nicola Coughlan, Armando Iannucci, Jimmy Carr, Marcus Brigstocke, Mark Watson, Chris Addison, Eleanor Bron, John Lloyd, Daniel Ings ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 49 min

    A comedy pick’n’mix of unheard & exclusive BBC Radio panel shows, sitcoms, sketches and satire – featuring some of comedy’s top names, including Armando Iannucci, John Oliver, Nicola Coughlan, Jimmy Carr, and more.First up is the unaired 2005 pilot for Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (titled 'What Happened There'), starring Jimmy Carr, Lucy Porter, Dan Gaster, and John Oliver.Weird and ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • The Dreamer

    An Autobiography

    by Cliff Richard ...
    'Before Cliff Richard and the Shadows, there was nothing worth listening to in British music.' - John Lennon.Cliff Richard tells his story, in his own words, in his highly anticipated new autobiography.Achieving a hit in every decade since the 1950s, Cliff Richard stands alone in pop history. Coming of age in 1950s London, he began his music career at Soho's legendary 2i's Cafe, and now he's ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • What Fresh Lunacy is This?

    The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed

    by Robert Sellers ...
    Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons.For the first time Reed's close family has agreed ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Hattie

    The Authorised Biography of Hattie Jacques

    by Andy Merriman ...
    The hardback of this first and authorised biography received very good reviews and immediately reprinted. It tells the story of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy, on radio, film and TV.Hattie Jacques is known as the billowing, imposing Matron in the Carry On films, as the star of such BBC radio classics as ITMA, Educating Archie and Hancock’s Half Hour, and as the fictional sister of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Hello

    The Autobiography

    by Leslie Phillips, Maureen Lee ...
    The autobiography of true national treasure LESLIE PHILLIPS, an actor who has featured in more British Number One box office smashes than anyone else and was the voice of The Sorting Hat in Harry Potter'A lively book full of amusing anecdotes and insights into the life of a zestfully ambitious actor' SPECTATORLeslie Phillips's story begins with a poverty-stricken childhood in north London, made ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Bounder!

    The Biography of Terry-Thomas

    by Graham McCann ...
    With his sly little moustache, broad gap-toothed grin, garish waistcoats and ostentatious cigarette holder, Terry-Thomas was known as an absolute bounder, both onscreen and off. Graham McCann’ s hugely entertaining biography celebrates the life and career of a very English rascal.Born in 1911 into an ordinary suburban family, Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens set about transforming himself at a very early ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Kenneth Williams Unseen

    The private notes, scripts and photographs

    by Wes Butters, Russell Davies ...
    To mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Williams’ death, a beautiful coffee table book celebrating his life, including never-before-seen photographs, sketches and personal testimony from Williams’ closest friends, for the very first time.2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary comic actor and broadcaster Kenneth Williams. Among the actor's bequests, in a will which itself was ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • If I Don’t Write It Nobody Else Will

    by Eric Sykes ...
    The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Kenneth Williams: Born Brilliant

    The Life of Kenneth Williams

    by Christopher Stevens ...
    Kenneth Williams was the stand-out comic actor of his generation. Beloved as the manic star of Carry On films and as a peerless raconteur on TV chat shows, he was also acclaimed for serious stage roles.Born Brilliant includes previously unseen material from Williams's candid daily journal and also draw on rare in-depth interviews with friends and colleagues. Since the publication of edited ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD