- Jonathan Rigby
Jonathan Rigby is an English film critic and
actor who has written a regular page, "The Fright of Your Life", in "Shivers" magazine since 1999. He is also the author of the following books - "English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema" (2000, third edition 2004), "Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History" (2001, revised 2003), "Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning" (2005, revised 2008) and "American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema" (2007). Rigby has been described in "Video Watchdog" magazine as occupying 'a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics,' and in the foreword to "American Gothic" he intimated that he is working on a sequel: "American Gothic 2".In his parallel career as an actor, Rigby appeared in the West End stage show "Round the Horne... Revisited", playing
Kenneth Horne throughout its eighteen-month run (2003-5); the production also led to aBBC Four film and an appearance at the 2004 Royal Variety Performance. He has also played such parts as Rochester in "Jane Eyre", Byron in "Bloody Poetry", Judge Brack in "Hedda Gabler" and Higgins in "Pygmalion". His work at the Edinburgh Festival is discussed, under the heading 'Jonathan Rigby, Shakespeare Liberator', in Owen Dudley Edwards' 1991 book "City of a Thousand Worlds", and his stage adaptation of "Dracula" toured during 1997, the original novel's centenary year.In addition, he has contributed audio commentaries to the DVD releases of "The House that Dripped Blood", "Prey", "Death Ship", "The Comeback", "House of Mortal Sin" and "Die Screaming, Marianne". He has also appeared in person on the DVD releases of "Night of the Demon", the
League of Gentlemen 's Christmas Special (in a featurette entitled 'Tales from Behind the Crypt'), two Doctor Who stories ("The Green Death" and "The Stones of Blood") and in the BBC2 series "British Film Forever".External links
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