Robert Tanitch

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Robert Tanitch, who lives in London, is an author, theatre and film critic, playwright and biographer of theatre and film actors including such luminaries as Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier.

He had the first professional production of one of his plays while he was still up at Oxford.

His comedies include: Call It Love, with musical numbers by Sandy Wilson, Wyndham's Theatre, London and Vienna 1960; Came the Knight, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, circa 1963; and Highly Confidential starring Hermione Gingold at the Cambridge Theatre, London 1969.

Tanitch has written and directed the cassette series, Shakespeare Interviews. He has been the Old Vic's education projects director and has lectured on Shakespeare and theatre in England, Australia, Indonesia and Kenya.

[edit] Partial list of books

A Pictorial Companion to Shakespeare's Plays, Robert Muller (1982) ISBN 0091710308
Ralph Richardson, A Tribute, Evans Brothers (1982) ISBN 023745680X
Olivier, Thames & Hudson (1985) ISBN 0500013632
Leonard Rossiter, Robert Royce (1985) ISBN 0947728198
Ashcroft, Hutchinson (1987) ISBN 0091710308
Gielgud, Harrap (1988) ISBN 0215515603
Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Career Illustrated, Ebury Press (1988) ISBN 0852236948
Guinness, Harrap (1989) ISBN 0245548270; Applause Theatre Book Publishers (1989)
John Mills, Collins & Brown Ltd (1993) ISBN 1855851423
Brando, Cassell Illustrated (1994) ISBN 0289801001
Clint Eastwood, Cassell Illustrated (1995) ISBN 028980132X
The Unknown James Dean, Batsford (1997) ISBN 0713480343
Oscar Wilde On Stage and Screen, Methuen (1999) ISBN 041372610X
The London Stage in the 20th Century, Haus Publishing (2007) ISBN 9781904950745