Recent Posts Tagged With 'theatre'

• Sir Ian McKellen

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, hollywood, television, theatre, actors, broadway, activists, tony award winners

  Sir Ian McKellen born 25 May 1939Sir Ian McKellen is probably the current holder of the unofficial title of the UK's best-loved actor.Gifted and charismatic, he is able to tackle a wide range of roles from Shakespearean gravitas to modern theatre to ...

• Sir John Gielgud

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 18:01 in Film, theatre, actors, tony award winners, emmy award winners, grammy award winners, academy award oscar winners

  Sir John Gielgud born 14 April 1904 (d. 2000)Undoubtedly one of the greatest British actors of the 20th century, John Gielgud was born in London into a family with a theatrical tradition, and was acting by his teens. He joined the Old Vic theatre com...

• Quentin Crisp

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, theatre, writers, models, leftfield avant-garde, hustlers prostitutes

  Quentin Crisp born 25 December 1908 (d. 1999)Quentin Crisp was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir The Naked Civil...

• Sir Noel Coward

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, theatre, writers, songwriters, actors, singers, cabaret, playwrights

  Noel Coward born 16 December 1899 (d. 1973)Sir Noel Peirce Coward was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music.Born in Teddington, Middlesex to a middle-class family, he began performing in the West End at an early age.A student at...

• Frank Vosper

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, theatre, actors, playwrights, death by accident, death by suicide

  Frank Vosper born 15 December 1899 (d. 1937)Frank Vosper was a British actor and playwright.Frank Vosper was bitten by the acting bug as a boy and at the age of 17 he attended the F R Benson and afterwards the Ben Greet Players instead of a college....

• Charles Hawtrey

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 18:01 in Radio, Film, theatre, actors, comedians, carry on

  Charles Hawtrey born 30 November 1914 (d. 1988)George Frederick Joffre Hartree, better known as Charles Hawtrey, was an English comedy actor. He took his stage name from a celebrated theatrical knight who died in 1923, Sir Charles Hawtrey. It has mis...

• Clifton Webb

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 18:01 in hollywood, theatre, actors, broadway, vaudeville

  Clifton Webb born 19 November 1889 (d. 1966)Clifton Webb was an American actor, dancer and singer.He was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis. In 1892, his formidable mother, Mabelle, moved to New York with her beloved 'little Webb', as she ...

• Russell Tovey

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, television, theatre, actors, broadway

  Russell Tovey born 14 November 1981Russell Tovey is an English actor from Essex.Tovey began his career as a child actor.In 2004 he played the role of Rudge in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys.He played in the original West End stage production as...

• Brad Davis

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, drugs, theatre, actors, alcoholics, bisexuals, death from hiv aids, death by suicide

  Brad Davis born 6 November 1949 (d. 1991)Robert Creel Davis, better known as Brad Davis, was an American actor. He was perhaps best known for his role in the 1978 film, Midnight Express.Davis was born in Tallahassee, Florida to Eugene Davis, a dentis...

• Max Adrian

  Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 19:01 in Film, television, theatre, actors

  Max Adrian born 1 November 1903 (d.1973)Max Adrian was an acclaimed actor, born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born simply Max Bor, and is sometimes credited as Max Cavendish.Firstly a stage actor, he began his career as a...

• James Dreyfus

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 18:01 in television, theatre, actors, musical theatre

  James Dreyfus born 9 October 1968James Dreyfus is an English actor. Born in London, his parents divorced when he was very young. His mother was an Egyptian fashion model and Dreyfus spent some years on tour around the world with her. Following an edu...