By then Iain had been working as film critic of the Sunday Times since 1983, and after a decade in the post gave it up to write a film script with Cleese. Iain became friends with John Cleese and filmed the making of A Fish Called Wanda in 1988. He was well known as as maker of documentaries about the making of films Other film profiles included Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty, Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson making The Shining, Woody Allen and, in 1979, a documentary about the Monty Python team as they made The Life of Brian. His second, in 1981, a biography of Clint Eastwood, sprang from his 1977 documentary The Man With No Name. This was the subject of Iain’s first book, The Arnhem Report. In 1975 Iain had formed his own company, and the following year Richard Attenborough asked him to make a documentary about the shooting of his film A Bridge Too Far. Wayne assumed much of the camera directing and claimed his screen characterhad “never been mean or petty or small”, a phrase Iain liked to savour. Others followed, and in 1976 he spent time with John Wayne on board the star’s converted minesweeper off Mexico. He had been filming profiles of stars for the BBC since 1971, the first being Dustin Hoffman on location for Straw Dogs. Iain Johnstone reporting on the making of Jaws and interviewing Steven Spielberg in 1974
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