biography
| name: |
Speaight, Robert William
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pronunciation:
[spayt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–76)
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| biography:
| British writer and actor. He performed most of the major Shakespearean roles for the Old Vic Company from 1930, and played Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral at the Canterbury Festival (1935). He wrote many biographies, including Hilaire Belloc (1956), edited Belloc's correspondence (1958), and published works on drama. |
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