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Sir Donald Wolfit (né Woolfitt) as Gratiano in 'The Merchant of Venice' by Gordon Anthony bromide press print, 1930s NPG x198327
10 ott 2016 · Sir Donald Wolfit was the last of his kind; the final stop at the end of a long line of great actor-managers - theatrical entrepreneurs, dating back to David Garrick, who ran their own companies ...
11 nov 2013 · Pearson’s book was published in 1950. He estimated the cut-off point for the actor-manager came at the end of the 1914-18 war. Among those he wrote about were Sir Herbert Tree, Sir Frank Benson, Lewis Waller, and Oscar Asche, all born between 1850 and 1890 and all strong-willed characters. Pearson’s opinion was that although actor-managers ...
9 set 2020 · Sir Ronald Harwood obituary. Playwright and screenwriter whose hit play, The Dresser, drew on his experiences of working with the actor-manager Donald Wolfit. Michael Coveney. Wed 9 Sep 2020 08.25 ...
This is her memory of that visit Donald Wolfit made to Kenya :-My father was the lighting director at the National Theatre, Nairobi and in 1963 Sir Donald Wolfit and his wife, Rosalind Iden, were invited to Nairobi to give some of their pieces from Shakespeare. They gave some wonderful, nowadays I would think “over-the-top”, performances.
Donald Wolfit was born in 1902 in the village of Balderton in Nottinghamshire. When he was sixteen he had an audition with the actor-manager Fred Terry who did not hire him. Unruffled, he began studying elocution and the broadsword and in 1920 won an unpaid position as an assistant stage manager with Charles Doran's Shakespeare Company.
