2008-09-10 A Welcome Biography

Some biographies really do answer questions that have long been waiting for a serious response. This is such a book. James Robertson Justice was one of those actors we all saw in film after film, but knew little of real substance about. It's a genuine treat, therefore, to finally discover more about this remarkably complex and intriguing individual, both as an actor and as a private person. There are areas that are treated a little sketchily for my taste, but the book as a whole succeeds in providing one with a satisfyingly vivid sense of this striking figure from British cinema.