Jonathan Rigby Explained

Jonathan Rigby is an English actor and film historian who has written several books. Video Watchdog magazine described him as occupying "a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics,"[1] and in 2020 he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards Hall of Fame.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] The production was adapted for BBC Four[6] and also featured in the 2004 Royal Variety Performance.[7] In 2008-09 he was in a regional tour of Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut[8] and the BBC Radio 4 special Twice Ken is Plenty,[9] then in 2017 he appeared in a new stage show called Horne A'Plenty.[10]

As a stage director, Rigby's revival of Sylvia Rayman's 1951 play Women of Twilight opened at London's White Bear Theatre in 2013 and transferred to Pleasance Islington the following year.[11] He is also an Associate Research Fellow of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at Leicester's De Montfort University,[12] and has contributed audio and/or video commentaries to the DVD/Blu-ray releases of numerous horror films.[13] In 2010 he was series consultant on the three-part BBC Four documentary A History of Horror,[14] also making a brief appearance as Dracula in the opening episode.[15] Two years later he was programme consultant on the feature-length follow-up, Horror Europa.[16] Also on screen, he played psychic researcher Harry Price in the part-animated 2017 feature film Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England.[17]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Lucas, Tim. Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History [review]. Video Watchdog. 82. April 2002. 85. Meanwhile, we more seasoned fans have the pleasure of our own new discovery in Jonathan Rigby, who, in only two books, has earned a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics..
  2. Web site: Here Are the Winners of the (Gasp!) 18th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. RondoAward.com. David. Colton. April 6, 2020.
  3. https://theatricalia.com/person/1rse/jonathan-rigby Jonathan Rigby
  4. https://theatricalia.com/play/fd6/bram-stokers-dracula/production/zzs Bram Stoker's Dracula
  5. News: Round the Horne Revisited. Michael. Billington. 23 January 2004. The Guardian.
  6. Web site: Round the Horne... Revisited. BBC. 3 February 2022.
  7. Web site: 2004, London Coliseum: Performers. The Royal Variety Charity.
  8. Web site: It's Round the Horne, Unseen and Uncut. 8 September 2009. Surrey Live.
  9. Web site: Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth Williams. BBC.
  10. Web site: Exclusive: Round the Horne… Revisited team reunite for brand-new stage comedy. 15 August 2017. My Theatre Mates.
  11. Web site: Women of Twilight. https://web.archive.org/web/20200813054239/http://womenoftwilightplay.co.uk/home/4580216438. 13 August 2020. Jonathan Rigby. dead.
  12. Web site: Cinema and Television History Research Institute members. Cinema and Television History Research Institute, De Montfort University, Leicester.
  13. Web site: Interview with Jonathan Rigby Author of English Gothic. Diabolique. 30 June 2015. 29 July 2015 . Ellinger, Kat.
  14. Web site: Interview – Jonathan Rigby on Studies in Terror. 25 March 2016. Signum Books.
  15. Web site: Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood (2010) . https://web.archive.org/web/20180527180730/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8e0ac705 . dead . 27 May 2018 . 2022-03-22 . BFI . en.
  16. Web site: Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television. Kevin, Ed.. Lyons.
  17. Web site: Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England (2017). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television. Kevin, Ed.. Lyons.

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