{"product_id":"michael-gambon-by-jasper-rees-9781529963335","title":"Michael Gambon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA major and definitive portrait of Sir Michael Gambon, one of the greatest actors of the last fifty years who died in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJasper Rees, the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLet's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood\u003c\/em\u003e, interviewed Gambon more than any other journalist alive, and has been granted exclusive access to Gambon's personal archive and effects. Rees is in the process of conducting over one hundred interviews with actors, playwrights, and directors who, across a career that spanned more than half a century, were witness to some of Gambon's most magnificent performances, including Penelope Wilton, Alan Ayckbourn, Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, David Hare, Judi Dench, Christopher Hampton, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Eyre, Patricia Hodge, Simon Callow, Stephen Poliakoff, and his closest friend in theatre, Oliver Cotton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe biography spans Gambon's epoch-defining roles on stage, television, and screen: the early years as a spear-carrier in Laurence Olivier's newly formed National Theatre, his pre-eminence as an interpreter of Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn, the triumphs in \u003cem\u003eThe Life of Galileo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA View from the Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, the screen roles that won him global fame, from Philip Marlow in \u003cem\u003eThe Singing Detective\u003c\/em\u003e to Dumbledore in the \u003cem\u003eHarry Potter\u003c\/em\u003e films. It promises to be a deeply personal, moving, and surprising book that will enrich our understanding of an acting legend who was as hilarious and elusive off stage—renowned for spinning mischievously tall tales—as he was mesmerising and chameleon-like on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233135014124,"sku":"9781529963335","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529963335-michael-gambon-1.jpg?v=1787726945","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/michael-gambon-by-jasper-rees-9781529963335","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}