biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–76)
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. Destined to follow in the family tailoring business, he instead became a lecturer in elocution at Edinburgh University (1925–30), and made his professional stage debut in a London production of Othello (1930). Further stage work, including a season with the Old Vic, led to his film debut in Riverside Murder (1935). A distinctive and popular comic performer, his numerous films include Green for Danger (1946), Stage Fright (1949), Scrooge (1951), An Inspector Calls (1954) and The Belles of St Trinians (1954). On stage he appeared in The Tempest (1962), Too True To Be Good (1965), and Dandy Dick (1973), among many others. |
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