Jonathan Rigby

Who is Jonathan Rigby?

Jonathan Rigby is an English actor and film historian who has written the following books - English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History, Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning, American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema and Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema. He has been described in Video Watchdog magazine as occupying 'a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics.'

In his parallel career as an actor, Rigby played Kenneth Horne throughout the eighteen-month run of the West End hit Round the Horne ... Revisited; the production was adapted for BBC Four and featured in the 2004 Royal Variety Performance. In 2008-9 he reprised the role in a new stage show called Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut and in the BBC Radio special Twice Ken is Plenty.

Rigby's stage adaptation of Dracula toured during 1997, the original novel's centenary year, and in 2013/14 he directed a successful revival of the forgotten Sylvia Rayman play Women of Twilight.