Guy Williams The Man Behind the Mask (Audible Audio Edition) Antoinette Girgenti Lane Jennifer Groberg BearManor Media Books
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A massive biography of Zorro and Lost in Space star, Guy Williams. Author Antoinette Girgenti Lane's honest, loving account of Disney's dashing TV star contains the first ever detailed information on the man behind the legend.
Guy Williams The Man Behind the Mask (Audible Audio Edition) Antoinette Girgenti Lane Jennifer Groberg BearManor Media Books
Fans of Guy Williams will be thrilled by the prodigious research and this carefully crafted biography penned by author Antoinette Girgenti Lane. Lane conducted scores upon scores of personal interviews with the actor's wife, fellow actors, directors, producers, stuntmen, children, sibling, friends and virtually everyone who had significant contact with Williams. Lane's efforts in this regard are remarkable but this personal history is further augmented by the written record. Ms Lane quotes from a wealth of domestic and foreign newspaper articles and magazines. She has produced, in 500 well written pages, the essence of Guy Williams. This is an important work and a must have for any Guy Williams fan.Williams had an up and down acting career. He appeared in several movies and starred as the father on the TV series "Lost in Space" but he achieved world wide fame for his earlier roll in "Zorro". With his European origin, athletic skills and dashing good looks he was a natural to play the swashbuckling Fox, the champion of the downtrodden, El Zorro.
The man had charm and joie de vie like many leading man of his day but we learn that Williams was not an empty suit. He preferred to read and had an undying love of knowledge for its own sake. He was a skilled sailor, a talented fencer, an amateur astronomer and lived with a quiet dignity. When his fortunes faded in Hollywood he complained to no one. When things were financially hard, he was still cheerful, generous and kind. In middle age his fame as Zorro soared anew as reruns of the series begain to air in South America and later in Japan.
I admit, prior to reading this book, I had no real interest in Williams. I picked it up because it had an interesting cover but after reading the author's introduction, I was hooked. I brought the book home that day and as I read those pages I came to like the man. Did he have faults? Of course; no one is without some blame. But in all the interviews not a single associate, including his ex-wife, had a harsh word for Williams. I liked his grace, his charm and his wit and so, apparently, did they.
No one spoke badly of Williams because he was a most considerate man and one of that all too rare breed, a complete gentleman. His attention to and kind treatment of a troubled young teenager gives the reader a glimpse at the nature of a man no one chooses to speak of badly. Guy Williams was Zorro and Lane lets us understand why.
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Guy Williams The Man Behind the Mask (Audible Audio Edition) Antoinette Girgenti Lane Jennifer Groberg BearManor Media Books Reviews
I felt like the author was a kindred spirit. I never saw Zorro until the 1980s reruns on Disney Channel and was completely hooked from that point on. This biography documents how Guy Williams enjoyed wave after wave of stardom as Zorro reruns were released around the world and new fans discovered the magic over and over and over again through 30 years time in every corner of the globe. The tremendous success of Zorro when it hit Argentina dominated the last 20 years of Williams' life. Who knew what was going on? The research the author did for this book is as comprehensive and as detailed as it gets. She located so many people and foreign language articles and facts -- an extraordinary job of scholarship. This book is a true labor of love.
Guy Williams appealed to men and women alike and surely could have been a major leading man in Hollywood films in a class with Clark Gable or Sean Connery. There is a reason it didn't happen as the author explains. It's a total shame because super-stardom would have been richly deserved. Williams' brief career ended with the third season of Lost In Space. He never worked again. Why? How? Williams was the ultimate father figure! What the...? But this book covers all that happened in Williams' life. I had to read how it all ended. I never knew.
Thanks for this biography. Obviously a lot of people were inspired by his work and now you can learn about his true life struggles. The crowds that cheered him, the children that loved him and that he loved in return are preserved properly.
How many icons of early television can claim to have not one, but two cult classics to call their own?
As Disney's "Zorro", Guy Williams sold a lot of plastic, chaulk-tipped swords in his career. Guy was most proud of his role of Zorro, but not so much as the famous space patriarch he portrayed as Professor John Robinson in the '60s cult classic, and more popular, and more lasting "Lost in Space".
We get a good idea of the character of the man in this well-researched, mainly well-written, and sizable book. The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who was a huge fan of Guy Williams. The main weakness of this book is that a very interesting story gets over-taken by an almost gushy, fawning eagerness to stick to the highs of this complicated character. The point being that the author often resorts to giving the lows in this very real life the same weight as the highs.
Guy Williams was a complicated man, who was thoughtful enough to know it. He disliked the phoniness of Hollywood, but was rather inclined to be "over-whelmed" by "the business", even though he was smart enough to succeed - when he wanted to. The problem for Guy was that he couldn't get out of the way of idea of Guy Williams.
This is plainly obvious in his distain for playing second fiddle to a robot and "Dr. Smith". Guy felt betrayed (and justifiably so), by what Irin Allen had promised would be a serious portrayal of the challenges a family faced in space, and a show that deteriorated to pure '60s camp.
To his credit Guy compensated for these faults by making sure that his children got the best preparation for a life that Guy himself found difficult to handle. He was married to a beautiful woman who stood by Guy, even when Guy periodically retreated from his responsibilities as a married man, father and faithful husband to Argentina - a country that eagerly catered to Guy's belief that his finest role was that as "Zorro", a role that he only played for two seasons.
Even as the effects of aging turned swash-buckeling into parody, Guy pressed on, giving one show after another, until even his greatest fans started to fall away.
The author, Antoinette Girgenti Lane, explores all of this in a faithful, yet sometimes pollyannish way, while giving welcome details such as the floor plan of Guy's appartment in Argentina. Surprisingly, hardly anyone knows that for a man so beloved, Guy died alone in his Buenos Aires apartment, his body not discovered until days later.
Fans of Guy Williams will be thrilled by the prodigious research and this carefully crafted biography penned by author Antoinette Girgenti Lane. Lane conducted scores upon scores of personal interviews with the actor's wife, fellow actors, directors, producers, stuntmen, children, sibling, friends and virtually everyone who had significant contact with Williams. Lane's efforts in this regard are remarkable but this personal history is further augmented by the written record. Ms Lane quotes from a wealth of domestic and foreign newspaper articles and magazines. She has produced, in 500 well written pages, the essence of Guy Williams. This is an important work and a must have for any Guy Williams fan.
Williams had an up and down acting career. He appeared in several movies and starred as the father on the TV series "Lost in Space" but he achieved world wide fame for his earlier roll in "Zorro". With his European origin, athletic skills and dashing good looks he was a natural to play the swashbuckling Fox, the champion of the downtrodden, El Zorro.
The man had charm and joie de vie like many leading man of his day but we learn that Williams was not an empty suit. He preferred to read and had an undying love of knowledge for its own sake. He was a skilled sailor, a talented fencer, an amateur astronomer and lived with a quiet dignity. When his fortunes faded in Hollywood he complained to no one. When things were financially hard, he was still cheerful, generous and kind. In middle age his fame as Zorro soared anew as reruns of the series begain to air in South America and later in Japan.
I admit, prior to reading this book, I had no real interest in Williams. I picked it up because it had an interesting cover but after reading the author's introduction, I was hooked. I brought the book home that day and as I read those pages I came to like the man. Did he have faults? Of course; no one is without some blame. But in all the interviews not a single associate, including his ex-wife, had a harsh word for Williams. I liked his grace, his charm and his wit and so, apparently, did they.
No one spoke badly of Williams because he was a most considerate man and one of that all too rare breed, a complete gentleman. His attention to and kind treatment of a troubled young teenager gives the reader a glimpse at the nature of a man no one chooses to speak of badly. Guy Williams was Zorro and Lane lets us understand why.
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