“I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.”
Silver screen matinee-idol, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – who died 7th May, 2000 – talking about his equally famous father, Hollywood legend Douglas Fairbanks.
Cleaver loves movies and watches most things, though he favours films with a darker air. A contributor to various books, magazines and websites, he has written for The Sunday Times Magazine, L.A. Review of Books and We Belong Dead Magazine amongst others. His book - Don't Go Upstairs! A Room-by-Room Tour of the House in Horror Movies - which studies the role of the house in horror cinema, was recently published by McFarland.