De Niro : A Biography - Hardcover

John Baxter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 000257196X ISBN 13: 9780002571968

Publisher: Harper Collins, 2002

Synopsis

The life of Hollywood's number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas. De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather II", Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull and Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" are some of the most vivid put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers to work for old friends like Martin Scorsese, and rarely plays anything but 20th-century roles. The author discusses De Niro's film roles as well as his often controversial private life.

About this title

From the Author:

This is not my book, John Cottrell

About the Author:

John Baxter is a film critic, novelist, biographer and broadcaster, whose books include The Hollywood Exiles, The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, The Cinema of John Ford, and biographies of Ken Russell, Fellini, Bunuel, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas. Born and brought up in Australia, he has worked in London, taught in the United States, and now lives in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 000257196X
• ISBN 13: 9780002571968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432