Richard Young

The Queen and Joan Collins, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1982, Photography

1982

Anthony Perkins was the son of the distinguished Broadway actor Osgood Perkins. He won an Academy Award nomination in just his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). In 1960, he appeared as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho, and from then on, Perkins was strongly identified with that one role. When photographed by Jack Robinson on May 21, 1968, Perkins had just made Pretty Poison playing a mentally disturbed man opposite Tuesday Weld. He was married to the photographer Berry Berenson...

The French director Claude Chabrol was one of the Cahiers du Cinéma critics who became filmmakers. Chabrol’s film Le Beau Serge (1958) is considered to be the first film of the Frenc...

Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma and the son of poets, was himself a published poet at the age of eighteen. He moved into films at twenty as an assistant director to Pier Paolo Pasolini, himself a poet turned filmmaker. When Jack Robinson photographed the twenty-eight year old Bertolucci on April 12, 1969, he had not yet started filming on The Conformist (1970) featuring the actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda. In Vogue, Bertolucci is described as “a shy man who moves the way he speaks and smiles, gently but cautiously, with sleepy brown eyes on the lookout for the worst”. As a filmmaker, he would achieve notoriety for Last Tango in Paris...

Julie Christie was born in Assam, India where her father was a British tea planter. Educated in England and France, she developed into a stage actress, ...

Born in the Bronx, played football at Michigan State, and for several years a rodeo rider nicknamed “the Jewish cowboy,” James Caan was one of the most exciting and rugged stars to emerge in the sixties. He was photographed by Jack Robinson on October 25, 1971 for a Vogue “People Are Talking About …” feature. Caan is described as the “unexploded star of the movie version of The Godfather (1972)” and “a real comer who has yet to play a film role that needs his kind of acting muscle”. Caan had made his debut as a sailor in Irma la Douce...

Berry Berenson and her sister Marisa, are shown in a “Vogue’s Own Boutique” session published April 1, 1970. “Berry, Marisa, and Squashy the dog find Th...