Chris Pickard
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Chris Pickard

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Chris Pickard is best known as the 'ghost' of the Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs. He helped Biggs to write his best selling autobiography "Odd Man Out: The Last Straw"; "The Great Train Robber"; "The Great Train Robbery - The Crime of the Century" (M-Press); and the novel "Keep On Running" (Bloomsbury). He wrote "The Insider's Guide to Rio", for many years the largest selling guidebook to Rio de Janeiro, and has contributed to numerous books about Brazil, as well as writing articles in newspapers and magazines, including as the arts and entertainment editor of The Latin America Daily Post. Pickard has produced and developed a number of motion picture and television projects. These include "Cannes Uncut"; "Ronnie Biggs: No One Is Innocent"; "On Parade: Carnival in Rio"; "Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca!" and a drama series based around the life and times of Biggs. Pickard traveled the world for many decades covering the film and television industries as a journalist, and lived for several years in Los Angeles where he was editor-in-chief of Moving Pictures, based in the office of Variety, and attended four Academy Awards. He has edited publications at the Cannes, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Sundance, Rotterdam, Panama and Karlovy Vary film festivals, and has written for Variety, Screen International, Pulse, Down Beat, Cash Box, Songlines and Music Week, among other entertainment publications. He is editor of "Cannes: The Guide" and "Oscars: The Guide".
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