Colin Shindler

Colin Shindler (born 1949) is an English author, social historian and affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge University.

Life and career Born in Manchester,

Shindler has written numerous books on British and American cultural history, with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film Buster and worked as a scriptwriter and television producer in England between 1977 and 1996, His daughter is the actress Amy Shindler.

Shindler should not be confused with the English academic and historian Colin Shindler, born in 1946, who specialises in the history of modern Israel.

Books Nonfiction Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939–1952 (1979) Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929–1939 (1996) Fathers, Sons and Football (2001) George Best and 21 Others (2004) Garbo and Gilbert in Love: Hollywood's First Great Celebrity Couple (2005) National Service: From Aldershot to Aden: Tales from the Conscripts, 1946–62 (2012) The Professional Amateur: The Cricketing Life of Bob Barber (2015) Four Lions: The Lives and Times of Four Captains of England (2016) Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The Controversial South African Tour of 1970 (2020)

Fiction Buster: A Novel Based on His Own Original Screenplay (1988) High on a Cliff (1999) The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer (2011)

Memoirs Manchester United Ruined My Life (1998) Manchester City Ruined My Life (2012)

Edited I'm Sure I Speak for Many Others ... : Unpublished Letters to the BBC (2017)