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He seems incorruptible, immune to popular tastes, predictability, or press kit hyperbole. Arranged alphabetically, these are no dry career recitations.Įach individual is given a unique reflection by the ever thoughtful, ever erudite San Francisco based critic, novelist and essayist David Thomson. New entries in this edition follow no discernible pattern, ranging from hot young things (Reese Witherspoon, Ben Affleck), to aged veterans (Louis Jourdan) to the long dead (Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin).

The 19 editions saw added entries, and now the 2002 version includes more than 1,300 brief biographical sketches of key film personalities past and present. Thousands of cineastes already know that, as the first edition of this gargantuan compendium first appeared way back in 1975. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is simply the most compulsively readable film reference book on the market. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson.