Anthony Frewin Explained

Anthony Edward Frewin (born 1947 in Kentish Town, London)^[1] is a British writer and erstwhile personal assistant to film director Stanley Kubrick^[2] (from 1965^[3] to 1968, and from 1979 to 1999). Frewin now represents the Stanley Kubrick Estate.^[4] His novel London Blues has been described as "masterful".^[5]

Personal

Anthony Edward Frewin and his brother Mark David Frewin are the sons of Edward Albert Frewin (b. 1921) and Ruby Jean Weeks (b. 1924, m. 1944).^[6] Frewin's ex-partner is Charlene Page,^[7] and they have a son, Nick Frewin (b. 1971).^{[8] [9]}

Credits

Novels

• London Blues, No Exit Press (1994)
• Sixty-Three Closure (1996)^[10]
• Scorpian Rising: A Seaside Noir (1997)^[11]
• The Reich Stuff (2008)
• The Count of Comedy, or Teddy Taylor and the Great Past He Has in Front of Him (2013)^[12]
• The Lion of Canterbury: The Last Armed Uprising in England (2019)

Non-fiction

• One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration 1840-1940 (1974)^[13]
• The Book of Days (1971) ^[14]
• Elstree & Boreham Wood through two thousand years (1974)^[15]
• The assassination of John F. Kennedy: an annotated film, TV, and videography, 1963-1992 Issue 8 of Bibliographies and indexes in mass media and communications, Publisher Greenwood Press, 1993,, 9780313289828, 170 pages.^[16]

Parodies

• The Secret Library of Georges Armoulian: Being an Annotated Catalogue of Bizarre, Curious, Suppressed and Outrageous Books, Amongst which there are Association Copies, Limited Editions, Fine Bindings, Private Press Titles, & Similar (2012)^[17]

Articles

• What Stanley didn't say, The Guardian, Saturday 20 November 2004
• Contributor to Lobster magazine on the JFK assassination

Film (writer)

• Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
• What is Out There? Segment on the Blu-ray release of 2001: A Space Odyssey (2007)^[18]
• Anthropoid (2016)

Film (assistant)

• 1999 Eyes Wide Shut (assistant: Stanley Kubrick)
• 1987 Full Metal Jacket (assistant to producer)
• 1980 The Shining (assistant: Stanley Kubrick—uncredited)
• 1971 A Clockwork Orange (assistant: Stanley Kubrick—uncredited)
• 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (assistant: Mr. Kubrick—uncredited)

Film (associate producer)

• ^[19]

Notes and References

1. "Anthony Frewin", British Film Institute.
2. Michael Rechtshaffen, "'Color Me Kubrick' a black mark for Malkovich", Reuters/Hollywood Reporter, Thu Mar 22, 2007
3. "2001: A Personal Note by Anthony Frewin, Assistant to Stanley Kubrick, 1965-69 and 1980-99 " at Warner Bros.
4. Gene D. Phillips, Rodney Hill, The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick, Publisher Facts On File, 2002,, 9780816043897, 422 pages, Forward, viii
5. Dave Thompson, Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema From the Victorian Age to the VCR, Publisher ECW Press, 2007,, 9781550227918, 350 pages, page 226
6. "Marriages Sep 1944", FreeBMD
7. "Color Him Kubrick!", StopSmilingOnline magazine, Issue 23
8. "Descendents of Edward Albert Frewin", Frewin.com, retrieved 23 August 2012
9. "Nick Frewin", IMDB.com, retrieved 23 August 2012
10. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990079019890203941/catalog
11. Book: Scorpian rising: A seaside noir. 00710459. 9781901982534. 1999. No Exit Press.
12. Web site: The Count of Comedy. Goodreads.com.
13. Book: One hundred years of science fiction illustration, 1840-1940. 75305430. 9780904041040. 1974. Jupiter Books.
14. Book: The book of days. 80515948. 9780002160858. 1979. Collins.
15. Co-authored with John Mansbridge; Publisher: Ann and Lionel Leventhal, 1974,,, 47 pages
16. Book: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV, and Videography, 1963-1992. 11 April 1993. Greenwood Press. 9780313289828. 11 April 2022. Google Books.
17. Web site: Robin Ramsay, [review]]. The Lobster Magazine.
18. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray) at dvdtalk.com
19. "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures ", Press Kit, at Warner Bros.