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Old 24-04-2008, 09:59 AM
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As a follow on from the 'Bands' thread .....

A long list from me just for starters:

Robert Donat
Eric Portman
Laurence Olivier ('Time' with Cliff doesn't count)
Richard Burton
Robert Shaw
Richard Todd
Eric Porter
Vivien Leigh
Tallulah Bankhead
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Marlon Brando

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As a follow on from the 'Bands' thread .....

A long list from me just for starters:

Robert Donat
Eric Portman
Laurence Olivier ('Time' with Cliff doesn't count)
Richard Burton
Robert Shaw
Richard Todd
Eric Porter
Vivien Leigh
Tallulah Bankhead
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Marlon Brando
I'm with you on Olivier and Burton.

I would have liked to see:

Paul Scofield
Richard Harris
Robert Stephens
Ralph Richardson
Robert Morley
Vincent Price
Donald Wolfit

But I did get to see Peter O'Toole which makes up for a lot...
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I saw Eric Porter in King Lear but he was looking a bit tired by then and Paul Scofield in John Gabriel Borkman at the NT - he was superb. I saw Richard Harris in a pub once - does that count?

My own list would be the same as everyone else's but in the Great Theatre in the Sky my first outings will be to see the Marx Brothers in I'll Say She Is (their first Broadway show) and whichever of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne's two plays together happens to be on.
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I saw Richard Harris in a pub once - does that count?
All the world's a stage... and pubs even more so.
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I saw O'Toole in the notorious 'Macbeth'. I bet Ollie Reed would have a great stage presence, he received quite a few offers to tread the boards but turned them all down.
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I bet Ollie Reed would have a great stage presence, he received quite a few offers to tread the boards but turned them all down.
Well, he was busy in the evenings...
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I would have loved to see the Great Late Ray McNally
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"John Barrymore"

Others too many to mention!! (but i'll mention "Albert Finney"anyway!!!)
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Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. I have seen Dulcie Gray but not Michael Denison. The Aldwych crowd in the 20s/30s.
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As a follow on from the 'Bands' thread .....

A long list from me just for starters:

Robert Donat
Eric Portman
Laurence Olivier ('Time' with Cliff doesn't count)
Richard Burton
Robert Shaw
Richard Todd
Eric Porter
Vivien Leigh
Tallulah Bankhead
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Marlon Brando
Boris Karloff in the original Broadway Arsenic and Old Lace must have been awesome.
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Boris Karloff in the original Broadway Arsenic and Old Lace must have been awesome.
That's the one I particularly had in mind ..... but his Captain Hook is reputed to have pretty damn good as well.

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I bet Ollie Reed would have a great stage presence, he received quite a few offers to tread the boards but turned them all down.
"Jonathan Miller once asked him to play Richard III. Now imagine what that could have been like."

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Sir Alfred Burke
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick Wymark
Leo McKern
Richard Burton
Peter Cushing
Stanley Baker
Eric Portman
Richard Bradford
Dame Diana Rigg at the RSC
Raymond Huntley - as the original Dracula
Sir Alec Guinness
Alfie Bass
John Gregson
Edward Judd
Peter O'Toole - in his prime
Mary Morris
Yvonne Mitchell


Amongst many others...

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