Being an Actor, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Simon Callow

Book Overview

A new edition of the classic book for actors starting their careers, with new material

Few actors have ever been more eloquent, more honest, or more entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon Callow, one of the finest actors of his time and increasingly one of the most admired writers about the theater.

Beginning with the letter to Laurence Olivier that produced his first theatrical job to his triumph as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312422431
• ISBN13: 9780312422431
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Loved it

What a discovery. Callow is a wonderful and illuminating writer on theater. Looking forward with pleasure to reading soon his books on Welles, Laughton, and more of his autobiographicals.