Icons in the Fire : The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody in the British Film Industry

Walker Alexander

ISBN 10: 0752856103 / ISBN 13: 9780752856100

Published by Orion Books Ltd, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Icons in the Fire : The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody in the British Film Industry
• Publisher: Orion Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752856103
• ISBN 13: 9780752856100
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1774940611.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 12929402
• Signed: 3/31/2026 7:03:31 AM
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Synopsis

Book by Walker, Alexander

About the Author

Film critic of the 'Evening Standard' (London) since 1959 until his sudden death in July 2003. Alexander Walker was 'Critic of the Year' three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of 'Film Star' for the BBC. Alexander Walker was educated in Northern Ireland, on the Continent and in the United States. Before moving to London in 1959, he was film critic of the 'Birmingham Post'. Joseph Connolly (Introducer) is a Hampstead antiquarian bookseller turned novelist. He is literary executor to Walker's estate.