- George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for "Pygmalion". He was a strong advocate for socialism and women's rights, a vegetarian and teetotaller, and a harsh critic of formal education. - Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (April 3, 1893 - June 1, 1943) was an English stage and Academy Award nominated film actor. He is best known by international audiences as Ashley Wilkes in the movie "Gone with the Wind". However he was an accomplished actor whose film roles included Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" (1938), "The Petrified Forest" (1936) and Intermezzo (1939). - Anthony Asquith
The Honourable Anthony Asquith was a respected English film director. Born in London, he was the son of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War I, and Margot Asquith. Within his family he was known as 'Puffin'. His first successful film was "Pygmalion" (1938) based on the George Bernard Shaw play. It featured Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. His later films included "The Winslow Boy" (1948), … - Michelle Dockery
Michelle Dockery is a British actress known primarily for playing Susan Sto Helit in the Sky One adaptation of "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather". Dockery trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating in July 2004. She made her professional debut in a minor role in 2005's "Fingersmith", and first appeared on stage in "The Government Inspector" at the Royal National Theatre in June of that year. - Gabriel Pascal
Gabriel Pascal (June 4, 1894 - July 6, 1954) was a film producer and director. Born in Arad, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Arad, Romania) in 1894, Pascal was the first film producer to bring the plays of George Bernard Shaw successfully to the screen. His most famous production was "Pygmalion", which was later adapted by Lerner and Loewe into the musical "My Fair Lady". Pascal had tried to convince Shaw to let "Pygmalion" be turned into a musical, … - Pygmalion Of Tyre
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 seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies including Kition on Cyprus and, according to tradition, Carthage. For the story surrounding the founding of Carthage, see Dido. - Wilfrid Lawson
Wilfrid Lawson (born January 14, 1900 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, died October 10, 1966, in London) was a British character actor. His most celebrated role was as dustman Alfred P. Doolittle in the 1938 film version of Shaw's "Pygmalion", the role later played by Stanley Holloway in the musical "My Fair Lady" (1964). Another noted role (yet uncredited) was as the uncle of Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), in "Room at the Top" (1958), … - Henry Sweet
Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist, and is also considered to be an early linguist. He specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly Anglo-Saxon (Old English), Old Icelandic, and West Saxon. Sweet also published on larger issues of phonetics and grammar in language, and some of his ideas are still discussed. Some of Sweet's works are still in print and continue to be used as course texts at colleges and universities. - David Tree
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 the theatre, he entered films in 1937, and enjoyed a string of character roles in films such as "Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel" (1937), "Pygmalion" (1938, as Freddy Eynsford-Hill), "Goodbye, Mr Chips" (1939) and "French Without Tears" (1940). After losing an arm during service in World War II, … - Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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 Lithuanian born businessman of German descent, and his English wife Constantia Draper. His younger half-brother was the parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm. - 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, … - Ronald Fraser
Ronald Fraser (11 April 1930 - March 13 1997) was an English character actor who appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s and 1960s, he also appeared in many popular TV shows. He is the father of actor Hugh Fraser. Ronald Fraser was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, the son of an interior decorator. He was educated in Scotland and did National Service as a Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders. - Georg Benda
Georg Anton [Jiří Antonín] Benda was a Bohemian-German kapellmeister and composer. Born in Staré Benátky, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Benda was 19 when Frederick II of Prussia bestowed upon him in 1741 the position of second violinist in the chapel of Berlin. The following year Benda was summoned to Potsdam as a composer and arranger for his older brother Franz, himself an illustrious composer and violinist. - Christopher Newton
Christopher Newton is a Canadian director and actor and served as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival from 1980-2002. Newton was born in England and educated at Sir Roger Manwood’s School in Kent, the University of Leeds, Purdue University in Indiana and the University of Illinois, where he earned his M.A. He performed with the Canadian Players, at the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Vancouver Playhouse and the Stratford Festival, … - Leo Genn
Leo John Genn was an English actor on stage and in films. He was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London. His father, Woolfe (William) Genn, was a jewelry salesman and the maiden name of his mother, Rachel, was Asserson. Leo had studied law at Cambridge and qualified as a barrister in 1928. Earlier, he had attended the City of London School. He ceased practising as a lawyer soon after the Second World War. - Stephen Murray
Stephen Murray (born in Partney, Lincolnshire, England, 1912, died 1983) was an English cinema, radio, theatre and television actor. He found his greatest fame as the new Number 1, later promoted to Commander in "The Navy Lark" on BBC Radio. His film debut was as the second police officer who interrupts an amorous Eliza and Freddy (Wendy Hiller and David Tree) in "Pygmalion" (1938). - Twiggy Lawson
Twiggy (born 19 September 1949) is an English supermodel, actress, and singer, now also known by her married name of Twiggy Lawson. A 1960s pop icon known for her big eyes, long eyelashes, and thin build, she is regarded as one of the most famous models of all time. Twiggy went on to star in movies, and is currently a judge in the reality show, "America's Next Top Model". - Howard Crook
Howard Crook (born June 15 1947) is an American lyric tenor singer who has lived and worked in the Netherlands and France since the early 1980s. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated at the University of Illinois, where he received a master's degree in music, specialising in opera. He worked in theatre and mime for a few years before becoming a professional singer after winning second prizes in the vocal competitions of Paris and 's-Hertogenbosch. - Mattan I
Mattan I (or Matan I or Mittin) ruled Tyre from 829 to 821 BC, succeeding Baal-Eser II (Balbazer II) of Tyre/Sidon. He is the father of the historical Pygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton), king of Tyre from 820 to 774 BC, and of Dido. As such, he may be the same person as Virgil's "The Aeneid" character Belus II. In "The Aeneid", … - Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard (March 17, 1908, London-September 1990, London) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 80 films during his career. He made several films with David Lean including "The Sound Barrier" (1952) and "Hobson's Choice" (1954), as well as "Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the British Society of Cinematographers Award. - Melville Cooper
Melville Cooper, born George Melville Cooper, (Oct 15, 1896 Birmingham, England - d. Nov 17, 1973 Woodland Hills, California) was an English actor who spent most of his career in America. He was usually cast as snobbish, ineffectual society types, clergymen or confidence tricksters. Cooper made his first stage appearance at Stratford-on-Avon at the age of 18. He settled in the USA in 1934, … - Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell (March 1, 1819-August 7, 1905), Scottish-American teacher and father of Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone), was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied under and became the principal assistant of his father, Alexander Bell, an authority on phonetics and defective speech. From 1843 to 1865 he lectured on elocution at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 1870 at the University of London. In 1868, and again in 1870 and 1871, … - Thomas Woolner
Thomas Woolner was an English sculptor and poet. Born in Hadleigh, Suffolk he was a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Woolner trained with the sculptor William Behnes, exhibiting work at the Royal Academy from 1843. Woolner's classical inclinations were rather difficult to reconcile with Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism, but his belief in close observation of nature was consistent with their aims. - Yang Xianyi
Yang Xianyi, born at Tianjin, January 10, 1915, is a Chinese translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including "Dream of the Red Chamber". Born into a wealthy banker family, he was sent to Oxford to study Classics in 1936. There he married Gladys Taylor. He had two daughters, and a son (who committed suicide in Cultural Revolution). Yang and his wife returned to China in 1940, … - Jean-Baptiste Regnault
Jean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter. Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin. After his return to Paris, Regnault, in 1776, obtained the Grand Prix, and in 1783 he was elected Academician. His diploma picture, the "Education of Achilles by Chiron", is now in the Louvre, as also the "Christ taken down from the Cross", … - Sir Rex Carey Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 - 2 June 1990) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning English theatre and film actor. - Cecil Arthur Lewis
Cecil Arthur Lewis was a British fighter pilot who flew in World War I. Author of the aviation classic "Sagittarius Rising" (inspiration for the movie "Aces High"), Lewis joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915, after lying about his age. In 1916, he flew the Morane Parasol in combat with Number 3 Squadron and won the Military Cross for his actions during the Battle of the Somme. - Joshua Mehigan
Joshua Mehigan is a contemporary American poet born in 1969. He is the author to date of one book, "The Optimist" (ISBN 0-8214-1611-1), which was published to acclaim in 2004. After winning the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and upon its release by Ohio University Press, "The Optimist" was named one of the top-ten university press books of 2004 and chosen as a finalist for the 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. - Denise Coffey
Denise Coffey is an English actress. After training at the College of Dramatic Art and then the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Coffey began a career in rep. in Edinburgh at the Gateway Theatre, then moved to the Palladium Theatre there. She later worked for the BBC as a radio interviewer, before enjoying a career in West End theatre. Coffey's notable film rôles have included "Sidonia" in the "Waltz Of The Toreadors" in 1962, … - Zoe Henry
Zoe Henry AKA Zoë Henry (born 1973) is an English actress. She gained a BA (Hons) Theatre Arts (Acting) degree in 1997 from Manchester Metropolitan University School of Television & Theatre. She met her husband Jeff Hordley (who is best known for his role as Cain Dingle) at drama school in 1994. - Denis Mackail
Denis George Mackail (1892-06-03 - 1971-08-04) was an English novelist and short-story writer, publishing between the two world-wars. Although his work is now largely forgotten, 'Greenery Street', a novel of early married life in upper-middle class London, was republished in 2002. He was born in Kensington, London, son of J. W. Mackail and Margaret (nee Burne-Jones). Educated at St Paul's School, Hammersmith, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, … - Shing Fui-On
Shing Fui-On is a Hong Kong actor. He is mainly known for supporting roles and (according to IMDB) has only had one leading role so far ("The Blue Jean Monster"). He has appeared repeatedly as a supporting actor in films with Chow Yun Fat including "A Better Tomorrow", "A Better Tomorrow II", "The Killer", "Tiger on Beat", "Prison on Fire", … - Irene Tedrow
Irene Tedrow was an American character actor in stage, film, television and radio. A founding member of the Old Globe Theater Irene Tedrow was cast as a young pretty ingenue, but with age found more work in film cast as the meddling old woman. She however did have an intermittently recurring role as Mrs. Elkins on Dennis the Menace television sitcom in the 1950s where her character was a kind woman. - Osmel Sousa
Osmel Ricardo Sousa Mancilla is a Venezuelan-Cuban impresario and (as of August 2006) the president of the Miss Venezuela Organization. Formerly an advertising draftsman, Osmel Sousa joined the Venezuelan Committee of Beauty in 1969. Sousa continued working with that committee when, in 1970, Ignacio Font Coll reconstituted it as the OPPA Advertising Agency, which in turn was the predecessor of the actual Miss Venezuela Organization. - Alma Murray
Alma Murray (1854-1945) was an English actress, born in London, the daughter of an actor, Leigh Murray. Her father's real surname was 'Wilson'. His brother was Gaston Murray (real name Gaston Parker Wilson) whose daughters often used the double-barreled stage-name 'Gaston-Murray' and were well-known performers with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. Her first appearance was at the Olympic in 1870 as Sacharissa in "The Princess". - Jonathan Rigby
Jonathan Rigby is an English film critic and actor who has written a regular page, "The Fright of Your Life", in "Shivers" magazine since 1999. He is also the author of the following books: "English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema" (2000, third edition 2004),"Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History" (2001, revised 2003), "Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning" (2005) and "American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema" (2007). - Michael Maddox
Michael Maddox (1747-1822) (also referred to as Medoks, Maddoksa, Maddocks, Mattocks) was an English entrepreneur and theatre manager. He was co-founder, with Prince Urusov, of the Petrovsky Theatre, the first permanent theatre in Moscow, later the Bolshoi Theatre. It is unclear whether he was related to Anthony Maddox the successful slack-wire and theatre performer. There exists a possibility of confusion between the two with regard to references to equilibrism. - Tous Sigma
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