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Date of Birth

26 March 1938, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

Birth Name

Anthony Francis Crawley

Mini Biography

Tony Crawley was born on March 26, 1938, in Farnham, England and has been resident in Marly-le-Roi, France, since July 1980. Author of the first biography of Steven Spielberg (in 1983) and of two books about Brigitte Bardot.

Journalist since 1955 (starting at the Salisbury Journal and the Bourneouth Times), he has supplied celebrity interviews and reportage for UK, US, European newspapers and magazines: Paris Match, Variety, Photoplay, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Today, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Film Monthly, Xposé, Cinema X, Cinema Blue, Ciné-News, Cinéphage, Panorama, Premiere, Theatre Crafts, Watch It, Hollywood Reporter; Starburst, Starfix, Screen International, Electronic Media International, Nouvel Observateur, Télé Cable Satellite Hebdo, Télé-Visions, etc.

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Spouse

Nicole Michelet	(26 February 1970 - present) 1 child
Jeannette Wild	(1 October 1961 - December 1969) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Father of Nicolas Crawley (b. 10 March 1962) and Delphine Crawley Joubert (b. 20 March 1970)

His books (from 1974-2004) include the first Spielberg biography The Steven Spielberg Story (1983) and two books on Brigitte Bardot: Bébé: The Films of Brigitte Bardot and just, well, Brigitte Bardot (in French)

Plus: The Films of Sophia Loren, Screen Dreams: The Hollywood Pinup, Film Quotes and two other books in French: Entre Deux Censures Le cinéma érotique de 1973 à 1976 and L'age d'or du cinema erotique et pornographique

Also contributed to The Film Yearbook (1983-1990) and Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King in 1989.

Personal Quotes

[on Brigitte Bardot] Just the kind of girl to take home to mother if you want to give her a heart attack.