biography
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Guthrie, Sir (William) Tyrone
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–71)
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| biography:
| Theatrical director, born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became director of the Scottish National Players (1926–8) and the Cambridge Festival Theatre (1929–30). He was responsible for many fine productions of Shakespeare at the Old Vic during the 1930s, and became administrator of the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells (1939–45), and director of the Old Vic (1950–1). He often worked abroad, and founded the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, in 1963. He was knighted in 1961. |
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