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    Is There Life Outside The Box?: An Actor Despairs
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    Is There Life Outside The Box?: An Actor Despairs

    By Peter Davison and David Tennant

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    His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn't the book they tried to stop—it was more like the book they didn't want him to start. An aspiring singer-songwriter, once dubbed Woking's answer to Bob Dylan (by his mum, who once heard a Bob Dylan song). From colonial roots—his dad was Guyanese and his mother was born in India—the family settled in Surrey where Peter's academic achievements were unspectacular. He even managed to fail CSE woodwork, eliciting a lament from his astonished teacher (All you have to do is recognize wood!). Despite this, Peter has secured his place in science fiction history, becoming the fifth Doctor Who, despite nearly turning down the role. The Time Lord connection continued with the marriage of his daughter Georgia to Doctor Who number 10, David Tennant. The artist formerly known as Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett has starred in a number of television series including Love for Lydia, A Very Peculiar Practice, At Home with the Braithwaites and The Last Detective, and became a national treasure for having his arm up a cow in his role as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small. He was also in a Michael Winner movie. He made his first stage appearance with an amateur dramatic company, but The Byfleet Players loss is now the West End s gain as he now has a number of musicals to his name, including Legally Blonde, Chicago, and Spamalot. Most recently he starred in the box office record-breaking Gypsy, where he rubbed shoulders backstage with Dames Meryl Streep, Maggie Smith, and Judi Dench, all asking him for directions to Imelda Staunton's dressing room. One thing is for sure: of all the British screen and stage actors of the last 50 years, Peter Davison is certainly one of them and, within these pages, intrepid readers will at last have the dubious honor of sharing in his life and times as he despairs over whether there truly ever can be life outside the box.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Blake
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781786063274
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    • 4/5
      Not a Who fan in particular, just a fan of decent actor biogs. And this is one. Written by Davison himself, in roughly chronological order with steps forward to the present day used to link back or introduce past events, which works well. A light insight into the life of an actor, albeit one who got fairly lucky (in his words) - insecurities, anecdotes, shows and stories about them - and what was going on in his life too, at the time. Maybe not a deep read but an entertaining one, nonetheless, although he freely talks about his time heavily in debt after his divorce from Sandra Dickinson and the fact that they just wasted their money while successful - big house, gadgets, not putting money by to pay taxes... and how he gradually worked his way out of it. The story about the ego battle between Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker at US Who conventions (both thought themselves the definitive Doctor, back in the 80s) was pretty funny and clearly Tom Baker himself had rather an ego problem. PD himself seems rather grateful for his lot in life and recognises he's done better than many, despite being lazy at school and discovering he had some acting talent by accident. His thoughts on some of the series he worked on are interesting - and he's not afraid to criticise people or decisions where he thinks it needs doing, which is refreshing - not everything was "simply lovely, darling" and that raises the book above some other similar books.Ultimately its an easy to read, entertaining actor biog. And there's nothing wrong with that - it's pretty much what I wanted. It has also made me want to revisit a few of his old series as to be honest, at the time they passed me by completely.