William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (The Bard of Avon)

male, deceased (1616)
poet, macbeth, hamlet, English poet, Authors whose works are in the public domain, Lord Chamberlain's Men…chronology of the plays, authorship of the works attributed to him, The Bard, The Bard of Avon, The Phoenix and the Turtle
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's...

Thomas Adès

male, 38 years old
artistic director, guildhall school of music and drama, LGBT, civil partnership, musical composition, piano…thetempest
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Gu...
Walter Pidgeon

Walter Pidgeon

male, deceased (1984)
Kiss Me Again, Technicolor, death by stroke, Sweet Kitty Bellairs, The Bride of the Regiment, university of new brunswick…Week-End at the Waldorf, The Miniver Story, The Girl of the Golden West, Blossoms in the Dust, thetempest
Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian actor who lived most of his life in the United States and eventually became a US citizen. Born near Saint John,...
Anne Francis

Anne Francis

female, 79 years old
film actor, Matlock actor, Mission Impossible actor, Emmy, From Santa Barbara, California, Gunsmoke actor…a mannequin on a vacation amongst the living, The After Hours, the twilight zone, thetempest
Anne Francis (born September 16 1930, in Ossining, New York) is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic...
Rupert Goold

Rupert Goold

male
Theatre director, Trinity College, Cambridge, artistic director, English, the glass menagerie, thetempest
Rupert Goold is an English theatre director. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the artistic director of Headlong Theatre, previously...
Heathcote Williams

Heathcote Williams

male
Judge Deeds, Basic Instinct 2, Jericho, Oxford, From cheshire, Helsby, Autogeddon…The Local Stigmatic, thetempest
Heathcote Williams (b. 1941 in Helsby, Cheshire) is an English poet, actor and playwright. He is noted for his book-length poems, "Autogeddon"...

Michael Grandage

male
Last Yankee, colchester, caligula, artistic director, Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama, The Cut…The Wild Duck, thetempest
Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. He made his...
Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

male, deceased (1980)
emigrant, painter, expressionistic, Viennese, Degenerate, wehrmacht…thetempest
Oskar Kokoschka (March 1, 1886-February 22, 1980) was an Austrian artist and poet of Czech origin, best known for his intense expressionistic...
William Hutt

William Hutt

male, deceased (2007)
Trinity College (Canada) alumni, Leukemia death, LGBT actor, sir john a. macdonald, From Canada, Long Day's Journey Into Night…The National Dream, The Statement, Companion of the Order of Canada, Member of the Order of Ontario, thetempest
William Ian DeWitt Hutt, CC, O.Ont, MM, BA, DFA, D.Litt (May 2, 1920 - June 27, 2007) was a Canadian actor of stage and film. Hutt was born in...
William Boyce

William Boyce

male, deceased (1779)
Oxford Chapel, Marybone Chapel, English classical organist, The Winter's Tale, Classical era composer, ode…thetempest, Master of the King's Musick
William Boyce (September 11, 1711 - February 7, 1779) is widely regarded as one of the most important English-born composers of the 18th century....