Richard Dacre

After spells with the Other Cinema Collective, managing London’s Scala Cinema, and working on the cult children’s TV series Cloppa Castle, Richard Dacre ran Flashbacks film memorabilia shop in London’s Soho for 26 years. These days, he divides his time between writing, lecturing, producing locations reports for blu-ray restorations of London films and working at the Royal Albert Hall. Published work includes contributions to Time Out, City Limits, Speelfilm Encyclopedie, Primetime, Movie Collector, Idols, plus segments for The British Cinema Book (1997, updated 2009), The Encyclopedia Of British Film (2003), Directors In British and Irish Cinema (2006) and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2012- ). He is the author of Trouble In Store: Norman Wisdom – A Career In Comedy (1991), Royal Albert Hall: Official Souvenir Guide (2019) and Movie Posters: The History of Cinema from the Origins to the Present (2020). Richard is currently researching and writing a book on the history of the Royal Albert Hall as both a cinema and a film & television location.