George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
vegetarian, Playwright, teetotaller, Literary critic, oscar, literary criticism…pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard

male, deceased (1943)
Old Alleynian, From Forest Hill, stage actor, Jewish person, film actor, film director…pygmalion
Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was an English stage and Academy Award nominated film actor. He is best known by international...
Anthony Asquith

Anthony Asquith

male, deceased (1968)
Asquith family, Herbert Henry Asquith, film director, The Winslow Boy, World War I, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom…pygmalion
The Honourable Anthony Asquith was a respected English film director. Born in London, he was the son of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Prime Minister...
Michelle Dockery

Michelle Dockery

female
Susan Sto Helit, British, actress, The Government Inspector, Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, Guildhall School of Music & Drama…pygmalion
Michelle Dockery is a British actress known primarily for playing Susan Sto Helit in the Sky One adaptation of "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather"....
Gabriel Pascal

Gabriel Pascal

male, deceased (1954)
From transylvania, Lerner and Loewe, German, director, film producer, film director…pygmalion
Gabriel Pascal (June 4, 1894 - July 6, 1954) was a film producer and director. Born in Arad, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Arad, Romania) in...

Pygmalion Of Tyre

carthage, tyre, middle east, the aeneid, ancient history, pygmalion
Pygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton) was king of Tyre from 820 to 774 BC and a son of King Mattan I (829-821 BC). During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre...
Wilfrid Lawson

Wilfrid Lawson

male, deceased (1966)
The Wrong Box, From Bradford, character actor, actor, British, pygmalion
Wilfrid Lawson (born January 14, 1900 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, died October 10, 1966, in London) was a British character actor. His most...
Henry Sweet

Henry Sweet

male, deceased (1912)
Old English, English, Philologist, linguistics, germanic language, philology…pygmalion
Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist, and is also considered to be an early linguist. He specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly...
David Tree

David Tree

male
World War II, Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Goodbye, Mr Chips, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, French Without Tears, Don't Look Now…pygmalion
David Tree (b. July 15, 1915) is a British actor. His mother was Viola Tree, and his grandfather Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Beginning his career in...
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

male, deceased (1917)
west end, king john, stage actor, Knights Bachelor, haymarket theatre, sir…pygmalion
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor-manager. Born in London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son of Julius Beerbohm, a...