anthony chubb

Haa anyone read his diaries read by derek jacobi
What a insight in his personel life it makes you wonder what gossips people are
So many people came under his critical eyes and also how very close knit community they were i lay at night and listern to it he wanted alec guiness job in lawrence he recond hed have done a better job and many more snippets
perhaps i am a gossip at heart too ?

anton

Steve Crook

One of the original "lovies". A fine actor, although, like Olivier and the others, better with the stage performances as they tended to proclaim a bit to much in films.

Great nephew of celebrated stage actress Ellen Terry.

Knighted in 1953 and appointed a Companion of Honour in 1977.

One of the few people ever to win an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy and a Tony.

Convicted of "lewd behaviour" in 1953. He got a standing ovation at his next stage appearance, and the roller-coaster to de-criminalise homosexuality in England and Wales began.

He once playfully quipped, "Ingrid Bergman is fluent in five languages. And she can't act in any of them."

Famous for "dropping bricks" with his comments.

To Clement Attlee, when Prime Minister "Tell me, where are you living these days?"

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

Allen Dace

Also he became the 2nd and last actor to date (after Olivier) to receive the Order Of Merit (in 1996).

RonPrice

A STRANGE AND ELUSIVE THING

As spring approached its mid-point in Tasmania I chanced upon the best library in the north of the state, the university of Tasmania library in Launceston. There I spent a pleasant hour before I started to get sleepy as I so often do and have in libraries in the last couple of decades of middle life. I had just been to the dentist that morning, had my first KFC lunch in three years and, before going home some 50 kms to George Town, I felt a need to do some browsing in the library as I have done in these first years of my late adulthood two or three times a year. It was not so much chance, then, that took me to the library as habit, custom, interest, desire even, as I say, need.

After taking half a dozen books off a shelf in the theatre and film section at the far end of the library, I sat down at a table near the photocopying machine, anticipating some copying of pages from the books I had selected. One of the books I had procured for my small pile was a thick 500+ page tome on the life of John Gielgud.1 I copied six pages from the book on Gielgud seeing the makings of a prose-poem which I would write when I got home. Perhaps these pages would just serve as some interesting information for the two arch-lever files I had on drama in my study. –Ron Price with thanks to 1Jonathan Croall, Gielgud: A Theatrical Life, Methuen, London, 2000.

As you say, John,
getting old is strange
somehow one never
thought it quite possible.1

The theatre was your life,
your hobby, joy, work,
occupation, vocation, habit,
avocation, obsession, your all.

Always you worked, solitary
man that you were, shy, timid,
cowardly, even, as you said,
enjoyed your own company,
aloof, impetuous, modest,
downplayed your successes.

There is much in these traits
that I see in myself, but the
essential admixture was not,
for me, the theatre, but a new
religion—the Bahá’Ã* Faith.

And I, too, found growing old
a strange and elusive thing.

1Gielgud in ibid., p.514.

-Ron Price
October 11th 2006
___________________

married for 41 years, teacher for 35 years and a Baha'i for 49 years.

foha80

Orson Welles told the story of being at some function and over hearing Geilguld,after being told of Welles presence, said "What is he doing in England,don't tell me they are letting Americans play Shakespear"

Geilguld was a real snob,but what a treasure.

Terry