Nat Segaloff is a writer, broadcaster, teacher, film historian, and raconteur with a varied background in motion picture publicity, journalism, producing, and covering up other people’s mistakes.
Having begun his career during the exciting transition between the old studios and the film generation of the New Hollywood, he provides both perspective and commentary on a wide range of subjects, many of them having to do with movies. He also tries to return phone calls.
Ever since Covid he has been holed up in his secret fortress writing books and recording audiobooks in the companionship of his faithful Italian greyhound, Louie the Wonder Dog.
Books in order of publication:
Love Stories: Hollywood’s Most Romantic Movies – 1991
Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors – 2013
Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God – 2014
Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Huston’s Last Film – 2014
Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood – 2016
Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back – 2017
A Lit Fuse, The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison – 2017
Guarding Gable – 2018
Guiding Royalty: My Adventure with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton – 2019
Arthur Penn: American Director – 2020
Big Bad John: The John Milius Interviews – 2021
The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear – 2023
Bogart and Huston: Their Lives, Their Adventures, and the Classic Movies They Made Together – 2025
Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin – 2026
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