Helen Monk

Eric Porter - The Life of An Acting Giant Helen Monk

BIOGRAPHYAfter the first fifty years of Eric Porter's life available on Amazon in volume 1, here are the mature years: 1979-1995 with more drawings and photographs in addition. Eric Porter was one of the greatest actors of the British classical theatre in the 50's and 60's who became a worldwide famous TV actor after his portrayal of Soames Forsyte a main character of the series "The Forsyte Saga" in 1967 on BBC 2. This versatile actor loved playing po-faced characters but he was far from them in real life. Helen Monk had the privilege to enter his inner circle of friends and thanks to her we discover another man, a man with simple joys and a real intellectual as well. Far from the typical biography kind that Eric Porter himself didn't like, she doesn't tell us about his path from shadow to light but how he managed this difficult balance between Porter the actor and Eric the man.