Best Books By or About Actors

1.
Montgomery Clift: A Biography
Montgomery Clift: A Biography 4.02 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
2.
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn 4.03 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
3.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 4.18 avg rating — 73,027 ratings
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JOHN WAYNE: AMERICAN
JOHN WAYNE: AMERICAN 4.22 avg rating — 201 ratings
5.
He Ran All The Way: The Life of John Garfield
He Ran All The Way: The Life of John Garfield 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
6.
Cagney by Cagney: An Autobiography
Cagney by Cagney: An Autobiography 4.05 avg rating — 448 ratings
6.
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 3.88 avg rating — 105,653 ratings
8.
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre 4.10 avg rating — 153 ratings
9.
Groucho and Me
Groucho and Me 4.11 avg rating — 3,275 ratings
10.
The Million Dollar Mermaid
The Million Dollar Mermaid 3.87 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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Man Of The Flying Trapeze: The Life And Times Of W.C. Fields
Man Of The Flying Trapeze: The Life And Times Of W.C. Fields 3.74 avg rating — 88 ratings
12.
Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice
Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice 3.92 avg rating — 133 ratings
13.
Wanderer
Wanderer 4.21 avg rating — 706 ratings
13.
I'm the One That I Want
I'm the One That I Want 3.68 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
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I Just Kept Hoping
I Just Kept Hoping 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
13.
UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour
UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour
by: Donna Kaz
4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings
13.
Ned's Girl: The Authorised Biography of Dame Edith Evans
Ned's Girl: The Authorised Biography of Dame Edith Evans it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
13.
A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker
A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
13.
Life's That Way
Life's That Way 4.52 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
13.
Longbow: A Social And Military History
Longbow: A Social And Military History 4.13 avg rating — 108 ratings
13.
My Song: A Memoir
My Song: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 959 ratings
13.
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild 4.13 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
13.
True Grandeur
True Grandeur 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
13.
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent 4.51 avg rating — 6,459 ratings
13.
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life 3.96 avg rating — 4,025 ratings
26.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating — 509,693 ratings
26.
My Name Escapes Me
My Name Escapes Me 3.81 avg rating — 636 ratings
26.
Harpo Speaks!
Harpo Speaks! 4.23 avg rating — 4,186 ratings
26.
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940
Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 4.07 avg rating — 415 ratings
26.
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent 4.51 avg rating — 6,459 ratings
31.
More Fool Me (Memoir, #3)
More Fool Me (Memoir, #3) 3.44 avg rating — 6,274 ratings
31.
Uggie, the Artist: My Story
Uggie, the Artist: My Story 3.93 avg rating — 186 ratings
31.
The Hollywood Survival Guide for Aussie Actors
The Hollywood Survival Guide for Aussie Actors 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
31.
Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke
Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke 3.91 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
31.
Bogart
Bogart 4.17 avg rating — 452 ratings
31.
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood 3.88 avg rating — 564 ratings
31.
Runaway Train: Or, the Story of My Life So Far
Runaway Train: Or, the Story of My Life So Far 3.61 avg rating — 466 ratings
38.
John Wayne: The Life and Legend
John Wayne: The Life and Legend 4.20 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
38.
Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,988 ratings
38.
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
by: Rob Lowe
3.87 avg rating — 83,937 ratings
38.
The Lives of Robert Ryan
The Lives of Robert Ryan 4.25 avg rating — 85 ratings
42.
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune 4.20 avg rating — 270 ratings
42.
Love Life
Love Life
by: Rob Lowe
3.68 avg rating — 11,508 ratings
44.
All My Yesterdays
All My Yesterdays 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
44.
So That Happened: A Memoir
So That Happened: A Memoir
by: Jon Cryer
3.76 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
44.
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family 4.27 avg rating — 25,425 ratings
47.
Coreyography
Coreyography 3.88 avg rating — 6,860 ratings
47.
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life 4.41 avg rating — 406 ratings
49.
Warren Oates: A Wild Life
Warren Oates: A Wild Life 4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings
49.
Stanwyck
Stanwyck 3.61 avg rating — 203 ratings
51.
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind 3.82 avg rating — 4,687 ratings
51.
Jimmy Stewart: A Biography
Jimmy Stewart: A Biography 3.85 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
53.
Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love
Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love 3.48 avg rating — 266 ratings
54.
Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam
Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam 3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings
54.
My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe
My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe 3.99 avg rating — 640 ratings
54.
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940
A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 3.70 avg rating — 576 ratings
57.
Fonda: My Life
Fonda: My Life 3.82 avg rating — 136 ratings
57.
The Princess Diarist
The Princess Diarist 3.70 avg rating — 88,152 ratings
57.
Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock
Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock 4.05 avg rating — 43 ratings
60.
Up the Years from Bloomsbury: An Autobiography
Up the Years from Bloomsbury: An Autobiography 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
60.
Films and Career of Audie Murphy
Films and Career of Audie Murphy 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
62.
George Arliss, By Himself
George Arliss, By Himself really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
62.
Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking 3.82 avg rating — 91,337 ratings
62.
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration 4.52 avg rating — 126 ratings
65.
Moe Howard & The 3 Stooges: The Pictorial Biography of the Wildest Trio in the History of American Entertainment
Moe Howard & The 3 Stooges: The Pictorial Biography of the Wildest Trio in the History of American Entertainment 4.27 avg rating — 143 ratings
65.
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend 3.53 avg rating — 4,938 ratings
67.
Memoirs of a Mangy Lover
Memoirs of a Mangy Lover 3.49 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
67.
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens 3.86 avg rating — 10,157 ratings
67.
Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat
Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat 3.86 avg rating — 327 ratings
70.
The Groucho Letters
The Groucho Letters 4.01 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
70.
The Bastard from the Bush
The Bastard from the Bush 3.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
70.
Gene Kelly: A Biography
Gene Kelly: A Biography 3.82 avg rating — 114 ratings
73.
Stillways: A Memoir
Stillways: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 128 ratings
73.
Films of Gene Kelly - Song and Dance Man
Films of Gene Kelly - Song and Dance Man 4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings
75.
Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends
Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends 3.81 avg rating — 345 ratings
75.
My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie 4.27 avg rating — 3,405 ratings
75.
Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud
Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud 4.18 avg rating — 2,601 ratings
78.
Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House
Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House 4.23 avg rating — 528 ratings
78.
Unsinkable: A Memoir
Unsinkable: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating — 4,717 ratings
78.
Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman
Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
81.
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh 3.83 avg rating — 207 ratings
82.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy : An Affectionate Biography
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy : An Affectionate Biography 4.19 avg rating — 197 ratings
82.
Inside Out: A Memoir
Inside Out: A Memoir 3.94 avg rating — 53,370 ratings
84.
The Fall Guy: 30 Years as the Duke's Double
The Fall Guy: 30 Years as the Duke's Double 4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
84.
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard 4.28 avg rating — 147,648 ratings
86.
Lee Marvin: Point Blank
Lee Marvin: Point Blank 3.87 avg rating — 431 ratings
86.
Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru
Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru 3.97 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
88.
Confessions of an Actor
Confessions of an Actor 3.67 avg rating — 381 ratings
89.
Laurence Olivier (Coronet Books)
Laurence Olivier (Coronet Books) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
90.
Them Ornery Mitchum Boys
Them Ornery Mitchum Boys 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
91.
Loitering with Intent: The Child
Loitering with Intent: The Child 3.94 avg rating — 282 ratings
92.
The Prince: Public and Private Life of Laurence Harvey
The Prince: Public and Private Life of Laurence Harvey 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
93.
Mother Goddam : Bette Davis
Mother Goddam : Bette Davis 3.77 avg rating — 163 ratings
94.
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes 4.20 avg rating — 225 ratings
95.
In the Arena: An Autobiography
In the Arena: An Autobiography 3.87 avg rating — 227 ratings
96.
The Actors Life: Journals 1956–1976
The Actors Life: Journals 1956–1976 4.31 avg rating — 55 ratings