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Gavin Lambert (1924–2005)

Writer | Actor | Camera and Electrical Department

Educated at St. George's Windsor and Cheltenham College in the United Kingdom, where he first met and befriended Lindsay Anderson. Studied English Literature for one year at Oxford, but left on hearing that he would have to learn mediaeval English to get his degree. Editor of Sight & Sound magazine from 1950-1956... See full bio »

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in East Grinstead, Sussex, England, UK

Died:

(age 80) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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1991 Dead on the Money (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1989 Sweet Bird of Youth (TV movie) (teleplay)
 
1989 Caftan d'amour (writer)
 
1988 Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Closed Set (TV movie) (short story)
 
1988 Liberace: Behind the Music (TV movie) (written by)
 
1986 Second Serve (TV movie)
 
1977 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (screenplay)
 
1973 Interval (writer)
 
1972 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (additional dialogue)
 
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
– The Style of the Countess (1970) (novel)
 
1965 Inside Daisy Clover (novel / screenplay)
 
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (screenplay)
 
1961 The Barbara Stanwyck Show (TV series)
– Confession (1961) (story)
 
1960 Sons and Lovers (screenplay)
 
1960 Startime (TV series)
– Closed Set (1960) (writer)
 
1959 The Millionaire (TV series)
– The Julia Conrad Story (1959) (writer)
 
1954-1958 G.E. True Theater (TV series)
– Strange Witness (1958) (adaptation)
– The Road to Edinburgh (1954) (adaptation)
 
1957 Bitter Victory (screenplay)
 
1956 Bigger Than Life (uncredited)
 
1954 Another Sky (screenplay)
 
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2000 The Next Best Thing
Ricky
 
1981 Rich and Famous
Literary Party Guest
 
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1960 The Savage Eye (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
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1954 Another Sky
 
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1978 Nicole (special thanks)
 
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2009 Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Garbo (documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
 
2002 John Ford Goes to War (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
– On Cukor (2000) … Himself
 
1998 Universal Horror (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears (TV documentary)
Himself
 
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2007 Legends (TV series documentary)
 
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(2004) Bioraphy: "The Ivan Moffat File: Life Among the Beautiful and Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood". New York: Pantheon, ISBN 0375422471 See more »

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Lambert knew Natalie Wood as both were intimates of director Randy Suhr. In the early 1960s, he wrote a novel about a Hollywood child star in the 1930s, Inside Daisy Clover. After reading the book, Wood telephoned Lambert and said, "I'd kill for that part." He assured her she was his first choice for the movie... See more »

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