Iain Johnstone

Iain Johnstone is an English author and broadcaster. In March 2009 he published two books, 'Streep: A Life in Film' a biography of Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and the novel 'Pirates of the Mediterranean'. He was for twelve years the film critic for The Sunday Times and presenter of the Film 82 programme (when regular presenter Barry Norman briefly left the job). He was also its original producer, and produced other British TV programmes su... more

Iain Johnstone is an English author and broadcaster. In March 2009 he published two books, 'Streep: A Life in Film' a biography of Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and the novel 'Pirates of the Mediterranean'. He was for twelve years the film critic for The Sunday Times and presenter of the Film 82 programme (when regular presenter Barry Norman briefly left the job). He was also its original producer, and produced other British TV programmes such as the BBC2 chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning' The Frost Interview and ran the BBC's Watergate coverage. He co-wrote the movie Fierce Creatures with John Cleese and has made eight documentaries with Steven Spielberg starting with 'The Jaws Report' and including 'Steven and Stanley' about Spielberg's collaboration with Kubrick . He has also made numerous other movie based documentaries about A Fish Called Wanda, Dustin Hoffman, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life,Supermanand TV profiles of Brando, Streisand, Wayne and Streep. He is a... less