Jonathan Rigby
Jonathan Rigby (born 1963) is an English film critic and actor who has written the following books - English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (2000), Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History (2001), Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (2005), American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema (2007) and Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema (2011). He has been described in Video Watchdog magazine as occupying 'a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics.'[1]
In his parallel career as an actor, Rigby played Kenneth Horne throughout the eighteen-month run of the West End hit Round the Horne ... Revisited (2003-5);[2] the production was adapted for BBC Four and featured in the 2004 Royal Variety Performance. In 2008-9 he reprised the role in a new stage show called Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut and in the BBC Radio special Twice Ken is Plenty.[3]
Rigby's stage adaptation of Dracula toured during 1997, the original novel's centenary year, and in 2013/14 he directed a successful revival of the forgotten Sylvia Rayman play Women of Twilight.[4] He is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester,[5] and has contributed audio and/or video commentaries to the DVD/Blu-ray releases of a number of horror films. In 2010 he was series consultant on the three-part BBC Four documentary A History of Horror, also making a brief appearance as Dracula in the opening episode; two years later he was programme consultant on the feature-length follow-up, Horror Europa.
References
- ↑ Tim Lucas, 'Biblio Watchdog', Video Watchdog # 82, April 2002
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jan/24/theatre
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mbkk2
- ↑ http://womenoftwilightplay.co.uk/home/4580216438
- ↑ http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/technology/cath/cath-membership.aspx
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