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Profile of Robert Speaight on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Robert Speaight  
   
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Date of Birth: 14th January 1904
   
Place of Birth: St. Margaret-at-Cliffe, Kent, England, UK
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Robert Speaight (1904 – 1976) was a British actor and writer.

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 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 only come out in the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy.

Works

  • Mutinous Wind (1932)
  • The Lost Hero (1934) novel
  • Legend of Helena Vaughan (1936) novel
  • The Angel in the Mist (1936)
  • St. Thomas of Canterbury (1938)
  • Acting: its idea and tradition (1939)
  • The Unbroken Heart (1939)
  • Juvenile Drama. The History of the English Toy Theatre (1946)
  • Since 1939 - Drama, the Novel, Poetry, Prose Literature.(1949) with John Hayward, Henry Reed, Stephen Spender – earlier as pamphlt Drama Since 1939 (1947)
  • George Eliot (1954)
  • William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival (1954)
  • The History of the English Puppet Theatre (1955)
  • Nature in Shakespearian Tragedy (1955)
  • Life of Hilaire Belloc (1957)
  • Letters from Hilaire Belloc (1958) editor
  • Christian Theatre (1960) volume 124 in the 20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism
  • William Rothenstein: The Portrait of an Artist in His Time (1962)
  • Ronald Knox: The Priest, The Writer (1965) with Thomas Corbishley
  • The Life of Eric Gill (1966)
  • Teilhard de Chardin: A Biography (1967)
  • Teilhard de Chardin: Re-Mythologization.Three Papers (1970) with Robert V. Wilshire and J. V. Langmead Casserly
  • Vanier : Soldier, Diplomat and Governor General : A Biography (1970) on Georges Vanier
  • The Property Basket. Recollections of a Divided Life (1970) autobiography
  • A Bridges-Adams Letter Book (1971) editor
  • Essays by Divers Hands Vol. XXXVII (1972) editor
  • Shakespeare on the Stage; an Illustrated History of Shakespearian Performance (1973)
  • Georges Bernanos: A Study of the Man and the Writer (1974)
  • The companion guide to Burgundy (1975)
  • Francois Mauriac: A Study of the Writer and the Man (1976)
  • Shakespeare - the Man and his Achievement (1977)

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