penfold

Chaplin of course....Buster Keaton in his family act...or Sir Seymour Hicks and Sir John Martin Harvey in their peak, popularising Dickens in the Music Halls...

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Gazza

I would have loved to have seen Helen Mirren in her RSC days. A dangerous performer by all accounts.

batman

I'm with you on this lot ...

Mrs Bat's mother saw McGoohan in 'Brand' but only caught Lugosi's 'Dracula', both in the 50s.

Bradford on stage .... wow!

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

christoph404

I was fortunate enough to see Richard Harris in 1989 onstage in London in Pirandello's "Henry IV" The whole audience including me was absolutely spell bound by his performance, it was brilliant. I was stepping out with an actress at the time who knew him, so not only did we receive comps to see the play we went back stage to say hello! Harris received an "Evening Standard " drama award for his efforts and on accepting the award at the podium in a star studded gala dinner in London he said,
quote; " The first time I won an award was very early in my career with a film called "This Sporting Life" directed by Lindsay Anderson. We had taken the film to Cannes and had won a prize and when we came back to London the "Evening Standard" headlines read "BRITISH actor wins award in Cannes" We were all very pleased and very proud and I decided to go back to Ireland and celebrate with the folks back there. Anyway, I got very pissed on the boat and ended up in a punch up and got arrested as I stepped off. When I came back to London a while later do you know what "The Evening Standard" headlines were? "IRISH actor arrested for brawling on ferry!" Anyway, thanks for the award !
Very funny man, he must have waited a long time to have a dig at the double standards of "The Evening Standard".

CaptainWaggett

I saw Alec Guiness in his last stage production (a tedious two-hander about 1980s Russian diplomacy) and Alfred Burke in an RSC Troilus and Cressida (but I was distracted by Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russell Beale aka the best actor ever!). Dame Diana still does lots of stage stuff so, while we can't invent a time machine, she isn't inaccessible, for Brits at any rate.

Raymond Huntley's Dracula must be high on anyone's wish-list. Did Peter Cushing do much stage-work?

Claude Rains in his prime must have been a fantastic stage-actor!

J. J.

Robert Donat
John Barrymore
Laurence Olivier
Paul Scofield
Ralph Richardson
John Gielgud
Orson Welles
Edwin Booth
Edmund Kean!

penfold

Has anyone mentioned Charles Laughton yet??

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

batman

You just did ... great choice.

I reckon Max would have been exciting on stage .... especially in full Stewart Granger mode!

"Do you know why fattries are called fattries .... it's because they are big and people make things in them."

Moor Larkin

Sylvester Stallone, Steven Siegal, Clint Eastwood, Jean Claude Van Damme and big Arnie........

Just to see if they could make the transition.........

Who would have expected Patrick Swayze to be so good?

stevie boy

Poor old Patrick is very poorly,great shame.

donna

hello everyone Idont know how to post a hello thread so hope its ok on here as lovel Robert Shaw , what a handsome actor with a lovely voice too, I saw Mickey Roonye two years ago on stage in Glasgow, ok not British but his dad came from Glasgow so hes part British and what an act he was, hoping to see him this year in panto in Glasgow at Xmas. loved Greer Garson would like to have met her also Alistair Sym, met Sylvia Syms in old picture house in the early 60s, she was on stage as a big surprise when the film Ice Cold in Alex was being shown that night, the lights went up and in walked a vision of lovelyness. oh IM going on too much here hello all from Glasgow.

Moor Larkin

Dunna stop now Donna......... It's great!