biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1901–89)
|
| biography:
| Stage, cinema, and TV actor, born in Dorchester, Dorset, S England, UK. After his professional stage debut in London in 1926, he enjoyed his first success with Journey's End (1929). He went on to the Old Vic, then made his Broadway debut in Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Katharine Cornell. Therafter he settled in the USA, playing mainly in Shakespeare, Shaw, and other classic plays, but also making several films and appearing on television, most regularly in Bewitched. During World War 2 he was in charge of the US army's Entertainment Section in the Central Pacific, and performed a famous modern-dress version of Hamlet for the troops. |
|
|
