John Russell Taylor (born June 19, 1935) is an English critic and author. He is the author of critical studies of British theatre; of critical biographies of such important figures in Anglo-American film as Alfred Hitchcock, Alec Guinness, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, and Ingrid Bergman; of Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950 (1983); and some books on art.
Taylor was born in in Dover, the son of Arthur Russell and Kathleen Mary ...
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John Russell Taylor (born June 19, 1935) is an English critic and author. He is the author of critical studies of British theatre; of critical biographies of such important figures in Anglo-American film as Alfred Hitchcock, Alec Guinness, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, and Ingrid Bergman; of Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950 (1983); and some books on art.
Taylor was born in in Dover, the son of Arthur Russell and Kathleen Mary (Picker) Taylor and now lives in London and West Wales. He attended Dover Grammar School, took a first in English at Jesus College, Cambridge and studied Art Nouveau book illustration at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
In the 1960s he wrote on cinema for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin, on the theatre in Plays and Players, on television for The Listener and "The Times Educational Supplement", and on various subjects relating to the arts for the Times Literary Supplement. From the late 1950s he began writing anonymously on...
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