Iona College (BA, 1963); Fordham University (MA, 1966; PhD, 1970)[1]
Occupation
Biographer
Television
The Girl (2012)
Spouse
Ole Flemming Larsen[2]
Donald Spoto (June 28, 1941 – February 11, 2023) was an American biographer and theologian. He was known for his bestselling biographies of people in the worlds of film and theater, and for his books on theology and spirituality.
Spoto has written 29 books,[2] including biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Alan Bates. The BBC/HBO television film The Girl (2012), about Tippi Hedren's experience during the filming of The Birds (1963), was based in part on Spoto's work on Hitchcock.
Spoto has written biographical accounts of the House of Windsor from the Victorian era to Diana, Princess of Wales, and of religious figures such as Jesus, Saint Joan of Arc, and Saint Francis of Assisi; the latter was made into a television program by Faith & Values Media.[3][4]
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DonaldSpoto (June 28, 1941 – February 11, 2023) was an American biographer and theologian. He was known for his bestselling biographies of people in the...
his research has been criticized by biographers DonaldSpoto and Sarah Churchwell. According to Spoto, Summers contradicts himself, presents false information...
register lists his year of birth as 1900 rather than 1899; biographer DonaldSpoto says he was deliberately enrolled as a ten-year-old because he was a...
No one would help her get her children back. According to biographer DonaldSpoto, Baker visited the children once in Kentucky and then had "infrequent...
302–303. Spoto 2001, pp. 301–302. Spoto 2001, p. 338. Spoto 2001, p. 302. Spoto 2001, p. 327. Spoto 2001, p. 350. Spoto 2001, pp. 310–313. Spoto 2001, pp...
Spoto, Donald (1983). The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-31680-723-4. Spoto, Donald...
skater John Curry as detailed in DonaldSpoto's authorised biography Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates. Spoto characterised Bates's sexuality as...
Pas. Retrieved March 1, 2023. Spoto, Donald; Forshaw, Barry (May 28, 2009). "Grace Kelly and Hollywood by DonaldSpoto". The Times. UK. Archived from...
and image, and was full of vanity. According to Bergman's biographer, DonaldSpoto, Lindström managed her career and financial matters. He was very frugal...
at the Wayback Machine "Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by DonaldSpoto – Excerpted on ereader.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26...
2013. Spoto (1983), p. 456. Spoto (2009), pp. 174–75. Spoto (2009), p. 173. Spoto (2009), p. 174. Spoto (2009), p. 183. Spoto (2009), p. 182. Spoto (1983)...
supplier of military bases. Despite the contention of Monroe biographer DonaldSpoto, McKnight denied that she and DiMaggio were romantically involved. In...
Hitchcock's Music (Yale University Press 2008), p. 155; ISBN 9780300134667 DonaldSpoto, Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and his Leading Ladies, Crown/Archetype...
forcing them to peer through his rear window and become exposed to, as DonaldSpoto calls it in his 1976 book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of...
was a rumor started by columnist Walter Winchell. Monroe biographer DonaldSpoto claimed that DiMaggio was "very close to marrying" 1957 Miss America...
Transcripts. January 11, 2004. Archived from the original on August 2, 2020. DonaldSpoto, Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean (HarperCollins, 1996), pp....
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