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Christopher Casson

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Christopher T. Casson (20 March 1912 – 9 July 1996) was an English-born actor who became a citizen of Ireland in 1946. [1]

36 relations: Attracta (film), Australia, Broth of a Boy, Captain Lightfoot, Church of Ireland, Dublin, Educating Rita (film), Egypt, England, Frankie Starlight, Gate Theatre, Hilton Edwards, Jacob's Award, James Joyce, Johnny Nobody, Julius Caesar (play), Lancashire, Lewis Casson, Micheál Mac Liammóir, New Zealand, Palestine (region), Prestwich, Radio Éireann Players, Republic of Ireland, Royal Albert Hall, RTÉ Radio, Sandymount, Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film), Sybil Thorndike, The Old Vic, The Riordans, The Siege of Sidney Street, The Sleep of Death, Ulysses (broadcast), Ulysses (novel), Zardoz.

Attracta (film)

Attracta is a 1983 Irish drama film directed by Kieran Hickey and starring Wendy Hiller, Kate Thompson and Joe McPartland.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Broth of a Boy

Broth of a Boy is a 1959 Irish comedy film directed by George Pollock and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Harry Brogan and June Thorburn.

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Captain Lightfoot

Captain Lightfoot is a 1955 American CinemaScope Technicolor adventure film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Educating Rita (film)

Educating Rita is a British 1983 drama/comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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England

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

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Frankie Starlight

Frankie Starlight is a 1995 drama–romantic war film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

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Gate Theatre

Founded in 1928, the Gate Theatre is considered by many to be Dublin's home for great European and American theatre, as well as classics from the modern and Irish repertoire.

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Hilton Edwards

Hilton Edwards (2 February 1903 – 18 November 1982) was an English-born Irish actor, lighting designer and theatrical producer.

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Jacob's Award

The Jacob's Awards were instituted in December 1962 as the first Irish television awards.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Johnny Nobody

Johnny Nobody is a 1961 UK drama film made by Viceroy Films Limited, with John R. Sloan as producer, and Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli as executive producers.

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Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lewis Casson

Sir Lewis Thomas Casson MC (26 October 187516 May 1969) was a British actor and theatre director, and the husband of actress Dame Sybil Thorndike.

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Micheál Mac Liammóir

Alfred Willmore (25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978), known as Micheál Mac Liammóir, was a British-born Irish actor, dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Palestine (region)

Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.

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Prestwich

Prestwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, north of Manchester city centre, north of Salford and south of Bury.

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Radio Éireann Players

The Radio Éireann Players (RÉP) were a repertory company for radio in Ireland, formed in 1947, which performed in regular drama productions for Irish broadcaster, Radio Éireann.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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RTÉ Radio

RTÉ Radio is a division of the Irish national broadcasting organisation Raidió Teilifís Éireann.

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Sandymount

Sandymount is a coastal suburb in Dublin 4 on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.

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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film)

Shake Hands with the Devil is a 1959 film directed by Michael Anderson.

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Sybil Thorndike

Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike (24 October 18829 June 1976) was an English actress who toured internationally in Shakespearean productions, often appearing with her husband Lewis Casson.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre, located just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England.

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The Riordans

The Riordans was the second Irish soap opera made by Raidio Telefís Éireann (then called Telefís Éireann).

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The Siege of Sidney Street

The Siege of Sidney Street is a 1960 British historical drama film co-directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman.

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The Sleep of Death

The Sleep of Death is a 1980 Swedish-Irish historical horror film directed by Calvin Floyd and starring Per Oscarsson, Curd Jürgens, Patrick Magee and Marilù Tolo.

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Ulysses (broadcast)

The Ulysses broadcast occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882).

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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Zardoz

Zardoz is a 1974 Irish-American surrealist science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling, and featuring Sara Kestelman.

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References

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

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