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Alexander Walker

Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books about the cinema and its stars, including bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn. He has also written standard works on the coming of the Talkies, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick, and the fullest account to date of the British film industr from 1960 to 1985. He has been the London "Evening Standard's" influential film critic since 1960 and has been named "Critic of the Year" three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of "Film Star" for the BBC. Alexander Walker was born in Ireland, and educated there, on the Continent and in the United States.
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AuthorTitleFormatDatePriceISBN
Alexander WalkerIcons in the Fire The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody in the British Film IndustryPaperback15/09/2005£10.999780752864846
Alexander WalkerHollywood EnglandPaperback15/09/2005£10.999780752857060
Alexander WalkerNational HeroesPaperback15/09/2005£10.999780752857077
Alexander WalkerAudrey: Her Real StoryPaperback07/08/1995£7.999781857973525

Icons in the Fire


"Walker is devastating... with a honed, wry wit. Each page shows his elegance. Uncompromising and intelligent."

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY, 3 October

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