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David Thomson

David Thomson is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film and Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, among other books. He is a British expatriate who lives in California.

Selected bibliography

  • Nicole Kidman (2006)  Buy this book
  • The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood (2005)
  • The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (revised edition, 2002)
  • Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts (1998)
  • Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (1996)
  • Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick (1992)
  • Silver Light (1990)
  • Suspects (1985)
  • America in the Dark: Hollywood and the Gift of Unreality (1977)

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