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Gerald du Maurier

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Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (26 March 1873 – 11 April 1934) was an English actor and manager. [1]

49 relations: Actor, Actor-manager, Actors Orphanage, An Old Jew, Angela du Maurier, Blue plaque, Cannon Hall, Hampstead, Captain Hook, Characters of Peter Pan, Colorectal cancer, Daphne du Maurier, Du Maurier (cigarette), Duke of York's Theatre, England, Escape (1930 film), Everybody's Business, Frank Curzon, Garrick Theatre, George du Maurier, Hampstead, Harrow School, Heath Mount School, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, I Was a Spy, J. M. Barrie, Jew Süss (1934 film), John Hare (actor), Justice (1917 film), Knight Bachelor, London, Lord Camber's Ladies, Michael Balcon, Muriel Beaumont, Noël Coward, Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan, Seymour Hicks, Sir, St James's Theatre, Sydney Grundy, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, The Admirable Crichton, The Play Pictorial, The Rise of Catherine the Great, The Scotland Yard Mystery, Trilby (play), Unmarried (1920 film), Wendy Darling, Wyndham's Theatre.

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Actor-manager

An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the company's business and financial arrangements, sometimes taking over the management of a theatre, to perform plays of their own choice and in which they will usually star.

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Actors Orphanage

The Actors' Orphanage was started in 1896 by Kittie Carson at Croydon and was established as the Actors' Orphanage Fund in 1912.

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An Old Jew

An Old Jew is an 1894 play by the British writer Sydney Grundy.

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Angela du Maurier

Angela du Maurier (1 March 1904 – 5 February 2002) was an English novelist who also wrote two volumes of autobiography, It's Only the Sister (1951) and Old Maids Remember.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Cannon Hall, Hampstead

Cannon Hall at 14 Cannon Place, Hampstead, London is a grade II* listed building that dates from around 1720.

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Captain Hook

Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy.

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Characters of Peter Pan

The works of J. M. Barrie about Peter Pan feature many characters.

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Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer and colon cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.

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Du Maurier (cigarette)

Du Maurier is a Canadian brand of cigarettes, produced by Imperial Tobacco Canada, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco.

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Duke of York's Theatre

The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End Theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster, London.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Escape (1930 film)

Escape is a 1930 British crime film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best and Gordon Harker.

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Everybody's Business

Everybody's Business is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Ralph Dewsbury and starring Norman McKinnel, Gerald du Maurier and Matheson Lang.

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Frank Curzon

Frank Curzon (17 September 1868 – 2 July 1927) was an English actor who became an important theatre manager, leasing the Royal Strand Theatre, Avenue Theatre, Criterion Theatre, Comedy Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre and Wyndham's Theatre, among others.

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Garrick Theatre

The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named for the stage actor David Garrick.

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George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 18348 October 1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist and author, known for his drawings in Punch and for his novel Trilby.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in Harrow, London, England.

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Heath Mount School

Heath Mount School is a Church of England co-educational independent prep school near Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England.

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Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.

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I Was a Spy

I Was a Spy is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Victor Saville and starring Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, and Conrad Veidt.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Jew Süss (1934 film)

Jew Süss (in the US retitled Power – Jew Suss Linked 2013-11-03) is a 1934 British historical romantic drama film based on Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 novel ''Jud Süß'', about Joseph Süß Oppenheimer.

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John Hare (actor)

Sir John Hare (16 May 1844 – 28 December 1921), born John Fairs, was an English actor and manager of the Garrick Theatre in London from 1889 to 1895.

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Justice (1917 film)

Justice is a 1917 British silent crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gerald du Maurier, Hilda Moore, and Lilian Braithwaite.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lord Camber's Ladies

Lord Camber's Ladies (1932) is a British drama film directed by Benn W. Levy, produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence, Benita Hume, and Nigel Bruce.

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Michael Balcon

Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer, known for his leadership of Ealing Studios from 1938 to 1955.

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Muriel Beaumont

Muriel Beaumont, Lady du Maurier (14 April 1876 – 27 November 1957) was an English stage actress.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Peter and Wendy

Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel.

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.

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Seymour Hicks

Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer.

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Sir

Sir is an honorific address used in a number of situations in many anglophone cultures.

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St James's Theatre

St James's Theatre (est. 1835) was a 1,200-seat theatre located in King Street, at Duke Street, St James's, London.

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Sydney Grundy

Sydney Grundy (23 March 1848 – 4 July 1914) was an English dramatist.

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Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Sylvia "Jocelyn" Llewelyn Davies (25 November 1866 – 27 August 1910), née Sylvia du Maurier, was the mother of the boys who were the inspiration for the stories of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.

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The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie.

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The Play Pictorial

The Play Pictorial was an English theatrical magazine which was published in London between 1902 and 1939.

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The Rise of Catherine the Great

The Rise of Catherine the Great (also titled Catherine the Great) is a 1934 British historical film based on the play The Czarina by Lajos Bíró and Melchior Lengyel, about the rise to power of Catherine the Great.

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The Scotland Yard Mystery

The Scotland Yard Mystery is a 1934 British crime film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall and Wally Patch.

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Trilby (play)

Trilby is a stage play based on the 1895 novel Trilby by George du Maurier.

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Unmarried (1920 film)

Unmarried is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Rex Wilson and starring Gerald du Maurier, Malvina Longfellow and Edmund Gwenn.

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Wendy Darling

Wendy Moira Angela Darling is a fictional character and the protagonist of Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie, and in most adaptations in other media.

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Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by the actor/manager Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_du_Maurier

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