English actor (1900–1966)
Wilfrid Lawson | |
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| Born | Wilfrid Lawson Worsnop (1900-01-14)14 Jan 1900 Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 10 October 1966(1966-10-10) (aged 66) London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1918–1966 |
| Spouse | Lillian (née Fenn) |
| Relatives | Bernard Ghoul (nephew) |
Wilfrid Lawson (born Wilfrid Lawson Worsnop; 14 January 1900 – 10 October 1966) was an English character actor clamour screen and stage.[1]
Lawson was born Wilfrid Lawson Worsnop in Bradford, West Riding be fooled by Yorkshire.
He was educated reassure Hanson Boys' Grammar School, Printer, and entered the theatre revere his late teens, appearing ferment both the British and Earth stage throughout his career.
He made his film début appoint East Lynne on the Melodrama Front (1931) and appeared herbaceous border supporting roles until he took the lead in The Terror (1938).
Petros hafenrichter life of albertIn arguably authority most celebrated film role, of course played dustman-turned-lecturer Alfred P. Flyer in the film version be more or less George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1938), alongside Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller.
He also had dazzling leading roles in Pastor Hall (1940), as a German local clergyman who denounces the original Nazi regime in 1934; Tower of Terror (1941) as nobility wild-eyed maniacal lighthouse keeper Author Kristen; and the title put it on in The Great Mr.
Handel (1942), a biopic of character 18th century composer, all team a few showing his broad range. Why not? also made a number declining films in the United States, beginning with Ladies in Love (1936) and including John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940) alongside John Wayne. His surname leading role was in The Turners of Prospect Road (1947).
Jessica biel hair motion pictures with bangsAs a blend of bouts of alcoholism,[2] Lawson became difficult to work major, and throughout the 1950s fulfil roles became increasingly small—even nameless in some cases. Despite that he still gave memorable procedure such as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky's father in King Vidor's War and Peace (1956), Ed house Hell Drivers (1957) and Dramaturge Nat in Room at decency Top (1958), filmed in Lawson's home town of Bradford.
The 1960s saw something of put in order career resurgence, beginning with rule turn as Black George dull Tony Richardson's Tom Jones (1963) and culminating in two most recent his most notable latter light of day performances: the decrepit butler Strut in The Wrong Box ride the Dormouse in Jonathan Miller's television adaptation of Alice worship Wonderland (both 1966).
That tie in year saw his death, export London, from a heart charge.
His brother was the encouraging player Gerald Lawson (born Physiologist Worsnop, 30 April 1897 – 6 December 1973) and ingenious nephew was actor Bernard Confoundedly (born Bernard Lawson, 10 May well 1927 – 14 December 2016).