Remember with Advantages Chasing the Fugitive and Other Stories from an Actor's Life |
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| Author:
| Morse, Barry
Wynn, Anthony
Wood, Robert E. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4766-2127-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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His resume of roles includes Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Ebenezer Scrooge and Oedipus Rex. His career has encompassed theatre and television in England, Canada and the United States. With a gift for developing offbeat characters, Barry Morse has had a prolific acting career, and the story of his life is a veritable history of 20th century theatre from the days before World War II through the early 21st century.
In this memoir Morse traces his life and career, including his...
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His resume of roles includes Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Ebenezer Scrooge and Oedipus Rex. His career has encompassed theatre and television in England, Canada and the United States. With a gift for developing offbeat characters, Barry Morse has had a prolific acting career, and the story of his life is a veritable history of 20th century theatre from the days before World War II through the early 21st century.
In this memoir Morse traces his life and career, including his years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his radio jobs with the BBC, his 60-year marriage to actress Sydney Sturgess and their years together in the Court Players, his roles on television shows (The Fugitive, Space: 1999), and his acquaintance with literary lights (George Bernard Shaw) and screen stars (Robert Mitchum and Peter Cushing). Photographs from the Morse family collection are included.