More than an Actor
£13.30
Well-bred, educated at Eton and the Central School for Speech and Drama in London, the youngest of four boys in an upper-class family, Peter H. was in many ways the embodiment of Englishness, from the way he took his tea to his love of Shakespeare. Encouraged by his wonderful mother, he chose a career in acting and, under the tutelage of Sir Laurence Olivier at the British National Theatre Company, became a stellar performer – a classical actor in the postwar era of gritty realism.
W. Grey Champion’s narrative, relying on contemporary accounts of people who knew Peter, tells the haunting story of the man himself – beset by misfortune and tragedy, which aggravated mental and physical disorders ending his life too soon. The author withholds Peter’s stage name early on in order to accentuate his vision of a truly superlative person, who was much more than an actor.
A compelling imaginative read that pays tribute to the memory of the venerable Jeremy Brett (Peter Jeremy William Huggins). – Linda Pritchard
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Additional information
| Publisher | Inc. (20 Feb. 2018), Page Publishing |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 346 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1641383445 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1641383448 |
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 1.96 x 22.86 cm |
by Barbara Clements
Interesting
by Amazon Customer
Red the book in two days. Easy reading about his life and career.
by Kindle Customer
I more than loved it! It was a fantastic read and a book I refer to often. I loved the style of writing a biography as a novel and I found the book an utter joy to read. Jeremy Brett has been captured here beautifully and his very soul comes through on every page.
by Aytoun12
As the previous reviewer said this reads more like a novel than a biography and that just didn’t work for me. Far too many imagined fictional conversations and scenes, so I gave up it fairly quickly.
by Pallavi
This book provides interesting insights on the great actor Jeremy Brett and the charming person Jeremy Huggins.
by Kelly A19
This ‘book’ is exploitation of the worst kind! The author purports to know so much about the actor that he can write an entirely banal and utterly ludicrous, fake biography of his life – and yet he admits he didn’t even know who Brett was until after his death!
Those of us who remember Brett as a real, living, breathing person are sick of fantasists using him to indulge their craving to write rubbish. This book is sickening: from the bizarre insistence on calling Brett ‘Peter’ when everyone but immediate family called him Jeremy, to the hideous Mills & Boon portrayals of Brett as a child.
The author has written tripe, cobbled together from google searches, then had the nerve to try to sell it!