This enjoyable, inclusive series celebrates all actors from Ernest Borgnine, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains to stars such as Jean Simmons, Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard, to Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Laurence Harvey and Richard Widmark...names etched in the memories of previous generations, and who all deserve their place in the hall of fame of the great actors of the 20th Century.... I was encouraged to write when reading a review below stating the contributors were in their "20's" and were "so called experts" and were picked to appeal to the youth. Inaccuracy is irritating when criticising people and their knowledge on the subject. Hate a programme of course. But these are the 20 year old so-called experts.
Derek Malcolm, going to the cinema in the 1950, Guardian film critic over 25 years, a jury member of the Berlin Festival in 1977 & host of a BBC film show in the 80's & one the great British Film Critics who interviewed everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Fritz Lang. Ian Nathan one of the UK's best known film writers, and former executive editor of Empire film magazine, he is the author of Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson. Neil Norman a playwright, and film critic since the 1970's, Bonnie Greer OBE, writer and critic who studied theatre in Chicago under David Mamet, and at the Actors Studio in New York with Elia Kazan in the 1970's brings her passionate and unique perspective of the subjects. Stephen Armstrong writes for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, GQ, Elle, and the New Statesman, as well as appearing on Radio 4 and highly regarded writer and critic.
