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Robert Speaight
Robert William SpeaightCBE (/speɪt/; 1904 – 1976[1]) was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight, the puppeteer.
Speaight studied under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based in the Royal Albert Hall, London.[2] He was an early performer (from 1927) in radio plays. He came to prominence as Becket in the first production of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. He went on to Shakespearean roles and to direct. He played the title role in the first broadcast in 1941-42 of the radio drama The Man Born to Be King.
He also wrote criticism and essays, works on the theatre and biography. He was a Roman Catholic convert, and biographer of Hilaire Belloc and Eric Gill. In the case of Gill, a personal friend, he suppressed material about Gill's sexual interests, which would come out only in the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy.
He married the Welsh actress Evelyn Bowen, with whom he had a son; they separated in 1939. Evelyn later married the celebrated Irish writer Frank O'Connor, with whom she had three children.
^Speaight, Robert William; Oxford DNB
^‘Fogie – The Life (1865-1945) of Elsie Fogerty Pioneer of speech training for the theatre and everyday life’, Marion Cole (Peter Davis, London, 1967)
Robert William Speaight CBE (/speɪt/; 1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight, the puppeteer. Speaight studied...
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impression on Belloc and his view of politics, according to biographer RobertSpeaight. He became a trenchant critic both of capitalism and of many aspects...
and dramatist Dorothy L. Sayers, and produced by Val Gielgud, with RobertSpeaight as Jesus. The twelve plays in the cycle are: Kings in Judea The King's...
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(Cornelius) to signal changes in mood and treatment to the audience. RobertSpeaight disliked the set design, which he called too minimal, but he approved...
military intervention...." The journalist Malcolm Muggeridge and actor RobertSpeaight wrote in a public letter that The bitter division in public opinion...
stage role as Amanda, and Welles played Elyot. Naomi Campbell and RobertSpeaight played Sibyl and Victor. On British television, Peter Gray and Maxine...
as Prince Hal, John Emery as Hotspur, Morris Ankrum as Henry IV and RobertSpeaight as the Narrator. The play's music was by Aaron Copland. Welles commissioned...
Addy was cast in a Theatre Guild production of Twelfth Night when RobertSpeaight was called up for wartime service in the UK. This was another Maurice...
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When she was twenty-three she made her debut at court. She married RobertSpeaight in 1935; they were divorced in 1939. The couple had one son. Bowen...
Autonomedia. pp. 570–571. ISBN 1-57027-039-2. The Life Of Hilaire Belloc, by RobertSpeaight, 1957, pp. 456–8. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, by Umberto Eco...
perpetual conflict necessarily produces confusion and savage barbarity".) RobertSpeaight, a biographer of Hilaire Belloc, noted that Cardinal Manning's involvement...
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Romanian poet, translator and economist (born 1897) November 4 – RobertSpeaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (born 1904) November 6 – Patrick...
Bayley as Mrs. Fiske Evelyn Darvell as Millie Fiske Amy Veness as Tessa RobertSpeaight as Priest Eliot Makeham as Bossi Danny Green as Scorpi Helen Haye as...
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"Reconnaissance" by Geoffrey Askew and E.J. King-Bull with Holland Bennett, RobertSpeaight, Ivor Barnard, broadcast 24/12/1935 on the Regional(N & LR) Service;...
began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online. RobertSpeaight (1962). William Rothenstein: the Portrait of an Artist in his Time...
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