Jonathan Rigby is an English film critic and actor who has written the following books - English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema (2000), Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History (2001), Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning (2005), American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema (2007) and Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema (2011). He has been described in Video Watchdog magazine as occupying 'a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics.'
In his parallel career as an actor, Rigby played Kenneth Horne throughout the eighteen-month run of the West End hit Round the Horne ... Revisited (2003-5); the production also led to a BBC Four film and an appearance at the 2004 Royal Variety Performance. In 2008-9 he reprised the role in a new stage show called Round the Horne - Unseen and Uncut and in the BBC Radio special Twice Ken is Plenty.
Rigby's stage adaptation of Dracula toured during 1997, the original novel's centenary year. He is an Associate Research Fellow of the Cinema and Television History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, and has also contributed audio commentaries to the DVD releases of The House that Dripped Blood, Prey, House of Mortal Sin, The Curse of Frankenstein, Corruption and several others. In 2010 he was series consultant on the three-part BBC Four documentary A History of Horror, also making a brief appearance as Dracula in the opening episode; two years later he was programme consultant on the feature-length follow-up, Horror Europa.