Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943, in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Charles and Edna Taylor. His father was a publican and an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways and fought against it. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life, so Malcolm was packed off to boarding school at 11. He attended the Tunbridge Boarding School and the Cannock House School in Eltham, Kent. At school he was beaten with the slipper or cane every Monday for his waywardness. Whilst at school, he decided that he wanted to become an actor; it was also around this time that his love for race cars began. He attended the London Academy of Music and Art to study acting. Meanwhile, he worked at his parents' pub but lost his job when the pub went bankrupt, his father drinking all the profits. He then had a variety of jobs, from coffee salesman to messenger.

Mary Harron has 17 credits at Criticker, including: American Psycho, This Film Is Not Yet Rated and The Notorious Bettie Page

Sam Mendes has 19 credits at Criticker, including: American Beauty, Skyfall, Road to Perdition, Jarhead and Revolutionary Road

Damien Hirst has 4 credits at Criticker, including: Breath, Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything, Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange and Somebody Up There Likes Me

Anthony Burgess has 8 credits at Criticker, including: A Clockwork Orange, Jesus of Nazareth, Vinyl, Moses and A.D. - Anno Domini

The son of a day laborer, William Boyd moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was seven. His parents died while he was in his early teens, forcing him to quit school and take such jobs as a grocery clerk, surveyor and oil field worker. He went to Hollywood in 1919, already gray-haired. In 1935 he was offered the lead role in Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935) (named because of a limp caused by an earlier bullet wound). He changed the original pulp-fiction character to its opposite, made sure t

Camille Paglia has 11 credits at Criticker, including: Inside Deep Throat, It's Pat, The Watermelon Woman, 2001: The Making of a Myth and David Bowie: Five Years

Mark Kermode has 14 credits at Criticker, including: The Devil and Father Amorth, The Fear of God: 25 Years of 'The Exorcist', Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror, Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature and On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

Robin Duval has just 1 credit at Criticker: Still Tickin': The Return of A Clockwork Orange