Biographer, ghost writer, broadcaster and film critic, William Hall travelled more than a million miles across the world on movie locations in a life of show-business journalism before turning to books.

Interviewed screen legends like Tom Cruise, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Burt Lancaster, Sophia Loren, Charlie Chaplin, Spencer Tracy, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many more. An early high spot in his celebrity-packed career was an exclusive interview with Elvis Presley.

Biographies include:

Raising Caine (Michael Caine), James Dean — a Biography, Don't Laugh at Me (Norman Wisdom), Titter Ye Not (Frankie Howerd), Me and My Big Mouth (Larry Adler), Flash! Splash! Crash! (Robert Maxwell), Nosher (stunt king Nosher Powell), Ooh, You Are Awful! (Dick Emery), Arise, Sir Michael Caine (Michael Caine, revised), The Filth (undercover cop Duncan MacLaughlin), 70 Not Out (Michael Caine, revised) and Dead Lucky (the hunt for Lord Lucan).