Peter Cook : a biography / Harry Thompson.
Publication details: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.Description: xii, 516 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0340649682
- Cook, Peter, 1936-
- Cook, Peter, 1937-1995
- Cook, Peter, 1937-1995
- Cook, Peter, 1937-
- Cook, Peter, 1937-1995
- Cook, Peter, 1937-1995
- Television actors and actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Comedians -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Actors
- Comedians
- Great Britain
- 791.45028092 21
- B 21
- 792.2/3/028092 21
- PN2598.C775 T49 1997
- PN2598.C776 T46 1997
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 791.45 THO | Available | 022467 |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references ([483]-498) and index.
"Peter Cook was perhaps the most dazzling product of his generation: a comedian and iconoclast who had conquered Broadway, the West End and British television, as well as establishing London's most fashionable nightclub, by the time he was twenty-eight. Twenty years later, his partnership with Dudley Moore long dissolved and with two failed marriages behind him, Cook had become severely addicted to alcohol and uninterested in work.
In his biography, Harry Thompson analyses the course of Peter Cook's career and the reasons behind the private ups and downs of a much-loved but deeply lonely and melancholy man. Harry Thompson has spoken to Peter Cook's wives, his children and his two sisters, and has been allowed access to the Cook family papers, in order to produce the first ever comprehensive biography of this influential and fascinating subject and his work. He has spoken to hundreds of Cook's friends, relatives, colleagues, teachers and classmates about a man who found himself equally at home at a CND fundraiser as he was in a showbiz golf tournament; who made President Kennedy wait in line to see him, but who befriended local tramps; who was capable of extraordinary kindnesses and occasional cruelties to those he loved; and who, of course, came up with some of the funniest sketches and some of the greatest jokes of all time." -- Inside cover