Anthony Slide was born on 7 November 1944 and is an English writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment.
13 Facts About Anthony Slide
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Anthony Slide wrote a "letter from Hollywood" for the British Film Review magazine from 1979 to 1994, and he wrote a monthly book review column for Classic Images from 1989 to 2001.
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Anthony Slide is a member of the editorial board of the American Film Institute Catalog.
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In 1970, in conjunction with the London Film Festival, Anthony Slide organized Britain's, and the world's, first silent film festival, an eighteen-day event at the National Film Theatre.
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In 1971, Slide was named a Louis B Mayer Research Associate with the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies in Beverly Hills.
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Anthony Slide is an independent film scholar, archivist and consultant.
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Anthony Slide published his first book, Early American Cinema, in 1970, and since then has been a prolific writer on little known areas of entertainment history.
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Anthony Slide was the first to document the prominence of women directors in the American silent film industry with Early Women Directors, which was revised and rewritten as The Silent Feminists.
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Anthony Slide went on to edit The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blache, the autobiography of the world's first female director, and to write Lois Weber: The Director Who Lost Her Way in History, the first and only biography of America's first native-born woman director.
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Anthony Slide has provided commentary for DVD releases from 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.
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Anthony Slide is known as an appraiser of entertainment memorabilia, with a client list ranging from Ralph Edwards Productions to Gregory Peck.
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Anthony Slide conducted oral histories with many silent film celebrities, and these are available at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and elsewhere.
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In 1990, Anthony Slide was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University.