Jonathan Rigby

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English actor and film historian

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Jonathan Rigby is an English actor and film historian who has written several notable books. Video Watchdog magazine described him as occupying "a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics," and in 2020 he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards Hall of Fame.

Biography

As an actor, Rigby trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1986 to 1989. Among his earliest roles on graduating was that of Mr Rochester in an adaptation of Jane Eyre at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh in 1991. His stage play, Bram Stoker's Dracula, was produced at London's Pentameters Theatre in 1997, marking the original novel's centenary, and subsequently went on tour.

He then made a speciality of playing Kenneth Horne in a series of stage shows based on the 1960s radio comedy Round the Horne, beginning with Round the Horne ... Revisited, which transferred to The Venue in Leicester Square and ran from 2003 to 2005. The production was adapted for BBC Four and also featured in the 2004 Royal Variety Performance. In 2008-09 he was in a regional tour of Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut and the BBC Radio 4 special Twice Ken is Plenty, then in 2017 he appeared in a new stage show called Horne A'Plenty.

As a director, Rigby revived Sylvia Rayman's 1951 play Women of Twilight at London's White Bear Theatre in 2013, the production transferring to Pleasance Islington the following year. He is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at Leicester's De Montfort University and has contributed audio and video commentaries to numerous DVD and Blu-ray releases.

In 2010 he was series consultant on the three-part BBC Four documentary A History of Horror, also making a brief appearance as Dracula in the opening episode. Two years later he was programme consultant on the feature-length follow-up, Horror Europa. Also on screen, he played psychic researcher Harry Price in the part-animated 2017 feature film Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England and Thomas Styles in Lot No. 249, the 2023 entry in the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series.

Bibliography

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References

References

  1. [[Tim Lucas. (April 2002). "''Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History'' [review]". [[Video Watchdog]].
  2. Colton, David. (April 6, 2020). "Here Are the Winners of the (Gasp!) 18th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards".
  3. [https://theatricalia.com/person/1rse/jonathan-rigby Jonathan Rigby] at Theatricalia.
  4. [https://theatricalia.com/play/fd6/bram-stokers-dracula/production/zzs ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''] at Theatricalia.
  5. Billington, Michael. (23 January 2004). "Round the Horne Revisited". [[The Guardian]].
  6. "Round the Horne... Revisited". [[BBC]].
  7. "2004, London Coliseum: Performers". [[Royal Variety Performance.
  8. (8 September 2009). "It's Round the Horne, Unseen and Uncut".
  9. "Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth Williams". BBC.
  10. (15 August 2017). "Exclusive: Round the Horne… Revisited team reunite for brand-new stage comedy".
  11. "''Women of Twilight''". Jonathan Rigby.
  12. "Cinema and Television History Research Institute members". Cinema and Television History Research Institute, [[De Montfort University]], Leicester.
  13. Ellinger, Kat. (30 June 2015). "Interview with Jonathan Rigby Author of ''English Gothic''". Diabolique.
  14. "Interview – Jonathan Rigby on ''Studies in Terror''". Signum Books.
  15. "Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood (2010)".
  16. Lyons, Kevin, Ed.. "''Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss'' (2012)".
  17. Lyons, Kevin, Ed.. "''Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England'' (2017)".
  18. (20 October 2023). "Lot No. 249: BBC Announce New Ghost Story for Christmas from Mark Gatiss".

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