biography
pronunciation:
[riys]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926–2002)
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| biography:
| Film and theatre actor, director, and producer, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). As a child he was sent to England in 1938 just before the Nazi invasion. He studied at Cambridge. His film credits include Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959), Night Must Fall (1963), Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), The Gambler (1974), and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). In recent years he has worked mainly as a theatre director. In 1999 he appeared in the film documentary Cinéma Vérité: Defining Moments, directed by Peter Wintonick. |
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