Donald Wolfit—English actor
Education
Donald Wolfit (April 20, 1902 â February 17, 1968) was an English actor-manager, knighted in 1957 for his services to the theatre. Wolfit was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School) and made his stage début in 1920.
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Work
Ronald Harwood, Sir Donald Wolfit, C.B.E.: his life and work in the unfashionable theatre Secker and Warburg (1971)
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Donald Wolfit was Master of the Lodge in 1965, and as a Shakespearian actor he was rated only second to Laurence Olivier. Donald Wolfit played all the great Shakespearian parts in the theatre, King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet and others, some in London but mainly on tour.
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Donald Wolfit (1902-1968) was an English actor, knighted in 1957 for his services to the theatre. Wolfit was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and made his stage début in 1920. He first appeared in the West End in 1924, playing The Wandering Jew. His speciality was Shakespeare, and in 1937 he formed his own company to take the Bard to the provinces.
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Donald Wolfit, KBE (April 20, 1902 – February 17, 1968) was an English actor-manager, knighted in 1957 for his services to the theatre. Wolfit was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School) and made his stage début in 1920. ... Wolfit finally made a name for himself at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1936 as Hamlet, and he tried to persuade the management to finance him on a tour of the provinces. They declined the invitation, ...
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