It was a new play by the youngest writer in living memory to achieve a play in the West End (he was 20), and it was staged by someone who had never directed a play before. Bebb played a staggering range of roles in two seasons at Buxton where he also met the gravely beautiful actress Gwen Watford who became his wife in a long and profoundly happy marriage.The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Work. Awards. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. As a woman whose marriage survived an almost unendurable strain in EM Forster's Howard's End (New, now Albery, 1967) she was again well- cast; and as the wearily married Masha, faithful to her schoolteacher husband but painfully in love with Keith Baxter's Colonel in Three Sisters (Greenwich), she distilled the essence of Chekhovian suffering in a way that I had not felt since Margaret Leighton played the part.No hype, just the advice and analysis you needAre you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?It was early days for the medium. She twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (1959, 1966) and the 1981 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for Noël Coward's play Present Laughter.Her film appearances included Cleopatra (1963), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969) and Cry Freedom (1987). Nominations. Throughout the 1990s he made frequent appearances in (and contributed regular voiceovers to) the Poirot series.
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He also (unwisely) co-directed with the American designer Norris Houghton, his lover. Bebb contributed to countless broadcasts, from children's programmes to the most challenging of Ibsen, Shaw and Shakespeare for Third Programme classic dramas.Sharing the full story, not just the headlinesThe possessor of a distinctive voice, rich in timbre - one of the hallmarks of his extraordinary record in radio drama - the actor Richard Bebb was also an outstanding connoisseur of the human voice both operatic and dramatic.
You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment.Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment.Indeed the victim of persecution which she then presented with such touching charm was to become an increasingly familiar role from 1955 - not so much in the theatre but certainly on the television screen. He also had cameo roles in several British films, most recently the uneven King Ralph (1991) starring John Goodman and with Peter O'Toole. Create a commenting name to join the debateAre you sure you want to delete this comment?When Hawtrey took a lease on the Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage, turning it into London's most enterprising off-West End theatre, he employed Bebb regularly; he appeared as the Doctor in a powerful production of Strindberg's The Father (1948), with Redgrave harrowing as the Captain who cannot master his fate, and in a rare revival of Jerome K. Jerome's allegory The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1949).Are you sure you want to submit this vote?In the early 1950s Bebb gave several striking performances at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, where his commanding presence and strong voice were considerable assets; he played Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice (1950) and Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (1951) for Robert Atkins.
1992. www.imdb.com. Movie ∙ Dec 27, 1992. The two bars then became a single bar curving around the corner into Tower Road. Not for a long time anyway.
Gwen Watford. Again it was the quietude that told - the controlled emotion.Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Two particular triumphs came as Queen Elizabeth in Clemence Dane's Till Time Shall End, and opposite George Cole in the 1977-79 series Don't Forget to Write which Charles Wood wrote for them both. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. It brought her so near to us. And she was greatly assisted, as was all her acting, by those large brown watery eyes, the warm, expressive voice that could reach to the rafters if required, and the ability to convey inner torment with poise.The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium.
Writers like David Mercer, James Saunders, David Hare, Willis Hall, Hugh Leonard and Roy Minton were supplying the scripts; and because the supply has since dried up we have learned to call them single plays. At any rate her reputation on the small screen had grown so great that by then she and Billie Whitelaw had become its two leading ladies.In that same 1960-61 season she also played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Lady Percy in Henry IV part 1; and admirers had every reason to suppose that the theatre had reclaimed her.
Up against Valerie Taylor's Elizabeth, Gwen Watford more than held her own especially in the famous fictitious encounter between the two women. Site of the Bohemia Arms . The Pullbacks performing at the Wheatsheaf 1993.