ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Research, over four decades, meant a lot of talking… I have to thank Robert Redford for a chance remark during his All The President’s Men promotions that sparked off the whole idea of text and visuals – and the following for their time, anecdotes, support and extreme gentillesse…
Cindy Adams, Danny Aiello, Robert Altman, Jan-Olov Andersson, Michael Apted, Paul Auster, George Axelrod, Sean Axmaker
Stanley Baker, William Baldwin, Helen Barlow (of course), Charlie Barnes, Martin Ulises Villafuerte Bazán (in far off Peru), Jennifer Beals, Henry Behar, James Belushi, Anne Bennett, Bruce Beresford, Richard Berry, Martine Beswick, Karen Black, The Files of Jerry Blake.com Harris Boghossian, Claudio Bondi, John Boorman, Betty Box, Ray Bradbury, Tinto Brass, Albert R.Broccoli, Edward Burns, Mark Burns, Steve Buscemi
Sir Michael Caine, Michael Feeney Callan, Tom Carlile, David Carradine, Helena Bonham Carter, Raechel Leigh Carter, Seymour Cassel, Michael Caton-Jones, Valentina Cervi, Thierry Cheze, James Coburn, Kevin Collette, Sean Connery, Francis Coppola, Harry H Corbett, Peter Coyote, Luigi Cozzi, Simon Crocker, Tony Curtis,
Timothy Dalton, Jeremie Damoiseau, Barbara De Lord, Rebecca De Mornay, Bo Derek, Gérard Depardieu, William Devane, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Vincent D’Onofrio, Richard Donner, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall
Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, Julius J Epstein
Abel Ferrara, Mike Figgis, Mike Fitzgerald at westernclippings.com, Guy Flatley and his fascinating site, Moviecrazed, Richard Fleischer, Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford, Carl Foreman, Robert Forster, John Frankenheimer, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Frears, David F Friedman, Roger Fristoe
Vincent Gallo, Ryan Gilbey, Ross Gilfillan, John Gay, Susan George, Whoopi Goldberg, Marianne Gray, Christopher Gull
Gene Hackman, Anthony Michael Hall, Philip Baker Hall, George Hamilton, Laurence Harvey, David Hemmings, Charlton Heston, George Roy Hill, Walter Hill, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Lauren Holly, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Howard, John Hurt, Anjelica Huston, John Huston, Joe Hyams
Alexandro Jodorowsky, Francois Jouffa
David Kamp, Stacy Keach, Terry Keefe, Patsy Kensit, Dave Kent, Stephen King, John Kobal, Andrei Konchalovsky, Connie Kreski
Benjamin Leroux, Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, John le Carré (for one word: betweenwhiles), Patrice Leconte, Spike Lee, Euan Lloyd, Leo Logan, Philippe Lombard, Sophia Loren, David Lynch
Ewan McGregor, Steve McQueen, Boyd Magers at westernclippings.com, John Malkovich, Louis Malle, Christian Marquand, Karl Marlamntes (for his Vietnam warn slang), Dave Matthews’ Authorised Guide To The New Avengerwebsite, Russ Meyer, Gerhard Midding, Barry Millert, Robert Mitchum, Dominique Monroc, Yves Montand, Sir Roger Moore
Col Needham (for inventing IMDb), Anthony Newley, Peter Noble, Kim Novak
Michael Oblowitz, Jay Ogletree, Ronan O’Leary, Reg Oliver
Jack Palance, Anne Parillaud, Mary-Louise Parker, Gregory Peck, Wolfgang Petersen, Bernard Pivot, Parker Posey, Stefanie Powers, Otto Preminger
Dennis Quaid
Gunnar Rehlin, Anne Reid, Clément Reinberger, Rob Reiner, Fernando Rey, David Rider, Nicolas Rioult, Jason Robards, Nicolas Roeg, Sydne Rome, Mickey Rourke, Barbara Rush, Ken Russell, Meg Ryan
Paul Sammon, Roy Scheider, Lawrence Schiller, Budd Schulberg, Joel Schumacher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Segal, Peter Sellers, Mike Seravello(a kindred spirit), Ron Shelton, Alain Silver, Alex Simon, Neil Simon, Tom Sizemore, Steven Soderbergh, Graham Spiers, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Steele, Meryl Streep
Rod Taylor, Peter Tonguette, Jean-Louis Trintignant – and Typographica for offering free downloads of Matt Terich’s superb Hitchcock font, inspired by ace designer Saul Bass’ work for Alfred Hitchcock – just perfect for film titles in my Special Movies and Bond Films pages.
Peter Ustinov
Roger Vadim, Leo Verswijver/filmtalk,.org
Joseph Wambaugh, David Warbeck, John Wayne, Tom Weaver, Michael Wechsler,Raquel Welch, Fred Weintraub, Dianne Wiest, Trevor Willsmer, Michael Winner, Robert Wise, John Woo, James Woods
Terence Young
Richard D Zanuck
Etc
Plus extra special thanks – for support beyond the call of nature! – to Nic Crawley, Daniel Bouteiller, Frederic Albert Levy, Graham Marsh and site designer Cedric Joubert and my tireless webmaster-general Alan McKenzie.
And finally, to my wife, Nicole. Without whom, none of this – none of me – would be possible!
Tony Crawley
Marly-le-Roi, France.
March 26 2008
(updated on April 4, 2019)