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- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, … - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Elizabeth Of York
Elizabeth of York, born Elizabeth, Princess of England (February 11, 1466 - February 11, 1503) was the Queen Consort of King Henry VII of England, whom she married in 1486, the mother of King Henry VIII, and the sister of King Edward V. - David Garrick
David Garrick (19 February 1717 - 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson. Amateur theatricals comprised his first work on the stage, however, it was not until his appearance in the title role of Shakespeare's "Richard III" that audiences and managers began to take notice. - John Wood
John Wood, CBE, (born January 1, 1930) is an English actor. Wood was born in Derbyshire. Known as a stage actor, he has played extensively in Shakespeare, having joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s. He has also appeared in many of Tom Stoppard's plays; he won a Tony Award in 1976 for the role of Henry Carr in Stoppard's "Travesties", … - Richard Burbage
Richard Burbage (July 7, 1568 - March 13 1619) was an actor and theatre owner. He was the younger brother of Cuthbert Burbage. Burbage came from a poor family and was a popular actor by his early 20s. His early acting career is poorly documented. It has been suggested that it included a stint in the Earl of Leicester's company, but there is no good evidence for this. He probably was acting with the Admiral's Men in 1590, with Lord Strange's Men in 1592, … - John Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - May 29 1942 in Los Angeles, California), was an American actor. He gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III, and is frequently called the greatest actor of his generation. He was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and the grandfather of Drew Barrymore. - Cedric Hardwicke
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (February 19, 1893 - August 6, 1964) was an English actor. He was born in the village of Lye, in Worcestershire. He trained at RADA, and, after service in World War I, he joined a repertory company in Birmingham, and played many classical roles on stage before beginning a film career which included both British and Hollywood films. He made his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, … - Edwin Booth
Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 - June 7, 1893), was a famous 19th century American actor. He was born near Bel Air, Maryland into the British-American theatrical Booth family. Some theatre historians call him the greatest American actor and Hamlet of the 19th century. - Frederick Warde
Frederick Warde (23 February 1851, Wardington, Oxfordshire, England - 7 February 1935, Brooklyn, New York) was a Shakesperian actor who moved from Britain to the United States in the late 1800s. He had two notable achievements, one being the "discovery" of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and persuading him to move from Denver to join Warde's New York City actors troupe. The second achievement was as the star of "Richard III" (1912), based on the play by William Shakespeare. - Jasper Tudor
Jasper Tudor (Welsh: Siasbar Tudur: c. 1431 - December 21/26, 1495), Earl of Pembroke and 1st Duke of Bedford, was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and the architect of his successful conquest of England and Wales in 1485. Jasper was the third son of Owen Tudor and the former queen Catherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V. Hence he was a half-brother to King Henry VI, who, on attaining his majority, … - Caterina Murino
Caterina Murino (born September 15, 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. She reached fourth place in the 1996 Miss Italy contest. In 1999 and 2000, she studied drama at the Cinema of Theatre of Francesca de Sapio, and appeared in stage productions of "Richard III" and Italian language plays. She began her career in television in 2002. - Paul Murray Kendall
Paul Murray Kendall (1 March 1911 - 21 November 1973) was an American academic and historian. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Frankford High School in 1928. In 1932 he received an A.B. from the University of Virginia. He received an A.M. in 1933, also from U of V. In 1937, while studying for a Ph.D he became an instructor in English at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Virginia in 1939. - Thomas Vaughan
Thomas Vaughan (c.1410 - 1483) was a soldier and diplomat, an adherent of Jasper Tudor and King Henry VI of England. Despite this, he was a Yorkist by inclination, as were so many Welshmen of the time, and became ambassador to the courts of Burgundy and France on behalf of the Yorkist King Edward IV. He was knighted in 1475, on the day King Edward's eldest son was invested as Prince of Wales, having acted for some years as chamberlain to the young prince. - Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York
Richard, Duke of York (21 September 1411 - 30 December 1460) was a member of the English royal family, who served in senior positions in France at the end of the Hundred Years' War, and in England during Henry VI's madness. His conflict with Henry VI was a leading factor in the political upheaval of mid-fifteenth-century England, and a major cause of the Wars of the Roses. Although he never became king, he was the father of Edward IV and Richard III. - Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. He made his directorial debut with a production of "Last Yankee" at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. From 2000 – 2005 he served as Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres where his high profile productions included "Edward II" with Joseph Fiennes, "Richard III" with Kenneth Branagh and "The Tempest" with Derek Jacobi. - William Brandon
Sir William Brandon (1426 - August 22, 1485) was Henry Tudor's standard-bearer at the Battle of Bosworth, and the father of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. William was son of a senior Sir William Brandon of Soham Court, Suffolk (1425-1491) and Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of of Sir Robert Wingfield. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Bruyn and Elizabeth, widow of Sir Robert Darcy, with whom he had five children: * William Brandon, (b. - Stanley Baker
Sir William Stanley Baker (February 8 1927 - June 28 1976), known as Stanley Baker, was a Welsh actor and film producer. Baker was born in Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, Wales, United Kingdom, but moved to London with his parents in the mid-1930s. He was an actor and film producer who came to prominence in the 1950s; although he made his film debut in 1943 as a teenager in the film "Undercover", … - Colm Feore
Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian film and television actor. - Ron Cook
Ron Cook (born in 1948) is a British actor who has been active in the theatre, film and television since the 1970s. He is from South Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom. - Richard Grey
Richard Grey (1458? - June 13(?), 1483) was son to John Grey, 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby, and Elizabeth Woodville, later Queen Consort to King Edward IV of England. He was therefore half-brother to Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward V). He was given Wallingford Castle in 1482. He was arrested by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) on April 30, … - Charles Ross
Charles Derek Ross (1924-1986) was an English historian of the Late Middle Ages, specialising on the Wars of the Roses. He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bristol until his death in 1986, when he was killed by an intruder in his own home. His best known work is his biographies of Edward IV and Richard III in the Yale English Monarchs series. In these - still influential - works, Ross made the first modern, … - Jim Carter
Jim Carter (born 1951) is an English actor noted for his roles on film and television. His film credits include "Shakespeare in Love", "Richard III", and "The Madness of King George". Television credits include "The Singing Detective", "Lipstick on Your Collar", "Arabian Nights", and the episode "Duty" of "Hornblower". He plays John Faa in "The Golden Compass" (2007), … - Geraint Wyn Davies
Geraint Wyn Davies (b. April 20 1957, Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian actor. The son of a Welsh Congregationalist preacher, he moved with his family to Canada at the age of seven, where he attended Upper Canada College. His most famous role is that of vampire turned police detective Nick Knight on the television series "Forever Knight". Previous to this role, he had also played a vampire in "Dracula: The Series". - Junius Brutus Booth
Junius Brutus Booth (May 1, 1796-November 30, 1852) was a British and American actor. He was the father of John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) and Edwin Booth (a noted actor in his own right). Booth was born in St. Pancras, London, England, the son of Richard Booth, a lawyer, and Jane Elizabeth Game, and grandson of John Booth, a silversmith, and Elizabeth Wilkes, a relative of the English radical and politician John Wilkes. - John Laurie
John Laurie (25 March 1897 - 23 June 1980) was an actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. He was educated at Dumfries Academy. He is probably most recognisable for his role as Private James Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker and Home Guard soldier in the popular BBC sitcom "Dad's Army" from 1968 to 1977. When the plot resulted in the cast being left in some perceived peril, … - Pamela Brown
Pamela Mary Brown (July 8, 1917 - September 18, 1975) was an English stage and film actress, born in Hampstead, London to George Edward Brown, a journalist, and his wife, Helen Blanche Ellerton. After attending RADA, she made her stage debut in 1936 as Juliet in a Stratford-upon-Avon production of "Romeo and Juliet". - Christopher Urswick
Christopher Urswick (d.1522) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. He was Rector of Puttenham, Hampshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne. Amongst his more important positions, Urswick was Rector of the Parish of Hackney, where he ordered rebuilt the medieval parish church in the early 16th century of which St Augustine's Tower is the only remnant. - William Charles MacReady
William Charles Macready (March 3, 1793 - April 27, 1873), English actor, was born in London, and educated at Rugby. It was his intention to go up to Oxford, but in 1809 the embarrassed affairs of his father, the lessee of several provincial theatres, called him to share the responsibilities of theatrical management. On June 7, 1810 he made a successful first appearance as Romeo at Birmingham. - Thomas Rotherham
Thomas Rotherham, also known as Thomas (Scot) de Rotherham (August 24, 1423 - May 29, 1500), was an English cleric and statesman. Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Thomas was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Rotherham, of Brookgate in Rotherham, and his wife, Alice Scot. He was first educated as a young boy by a teacher of grammar, who came, according to Thomas, "I know not by what fate save it was the Grace of God". - Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner (May 12, 1892 - July 22, 1970) was an Austrian-born stage and film actor. Kortner was born in Vienna as "Fritz Nathan Kohn". He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year he made his first appearance in a silent film. He became one of Germany's best known character actors. - Bruce Davison
Bruce Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker. - Donald Wolfit
Donald Wolfit was an English actor-manager, knighted in 1957 for his services to the theatre. Wolfit was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School) and made his stage début in 1920. He first appeared in the West End in 1924, playing "The Wandering Jew" but had limited success afterwards, … - Laurence Naismith
Laurence Naismith (born 14 December, 1908 in Surrey; died 5 June, 1992 in Queensland, Australia) was a British actor who starred in many great well known films, such as "Richard III", "Jason and the Argonauts", (1963), "Sink the Bismarck!" (1960) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in "A Night to Remember" (1958). - James Gairdner
James Gairdner (March 22, 1828 - November 4, 1912), Scottish historian, son of John Gairdner, M.D., was born in Edinburgh. Educated in his native city, he entered the Public Record Office in London in 1846, becoming assistant keeper of the public records (1859-1893). Gairdner's valuable and painstaking contributions to English history relate chiefly to the reigns of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. - Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Maxwell (born circa 1942, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress. She began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the kid co-host of his "Junior Magazine" series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, ready to pursue an acting career, as she explains in a 1958 interview. - James Blount
Sir James Blount (d. 1493) was commander of the English fortress of Hammes, near Calais. When in 1484 the Earl of Oxford was imprisoned there, Blount was apparently persuaded to switch the Lancastrian side. Blount and Oxford fled to join Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII of England), leaving his wife in charge. She and the garrison held out for months against Richard III's forces, until in early 1485 they surrendered in turn for safe passage into France. - Norman Wooland
Norman Wooland was a German-born British actor who appeared in many major films, notably in several Shakespearean ones. He played Horatio in Laurence Olivier's film version of "Hamlet", Catesby in Olivier's film of "Richard III", and Paris in "Romeo and Juliet" (1954), starring Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall.
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