The Dynamite Kid

Informationen zum Autor Brian Blessed grew up in Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His television appearances include Z-Cars , Boy Dominic , I , Claudius , Cold Comfort Farm , T he Little World of Don Camillo , Blackadder , My Family and Other Animals , The History of Tom Jones and Peppa Pig . His films include The Trojan Women , Flash Gordon , Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet , As You Like It , Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace .Brian is also an explorer and mountaineer. He became the oldest man to reach the North Magnetic Pole on foot in 1999 and to reach 28,000 feet of Everest without oxygen. He lives in Surrey with his wife, Hildegard Neil. Zusammenfassung The son of a Yorkshire miner with strong left-wing sympathies, Brian Blessed grew up in the mining village of Goldthorpe, and at 18 suffered a nervous breakdown before embarking on his acting career. This first volume of autobiography provides an evocation of wartime childhood in rural England.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Blessed, Blessed Brian
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1992
• EAN: 9780747512752
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-1275-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Memoirs, Biography: arts & entertainment, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Autobiography: adventurers and explorers