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Meets Percy Grainger, who from August 18 spends some days with Ernest at the Thesiger country home Woodrough Cottage, Bramley, Guildford, Surrey. 1905. February 18 Attends Charles Conder’s fancy dress party as “Death.” Travels to Spain, Corsica, and Italy.
Ernest Thesiger (1879-1961) was a star of stage and screen, most notorious for his portrayal of Dr Pretorius in the film The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). After an initial art training at the Slade, his first professional stage appearance was in Colonel Smith (1909) at St James's Theatre. He appeared regularly at the Malvern Festival under Sir ...
Ernest Thesiger. : Biografia completa, filmografia completa, scheda Attore. Sebbene abbia realizzato quasi 60 film in una carriera di attore di 50 anni, è per i due che ha realizzato con il regista James Whale che Ernest Thesiger sarà ricordato meglio. Nato Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger a Londra il 15 gennaio 1879, era il nipote del primo ...
5 gen 2023 · Above, Ernest Thesiger with Boris Karloff in "The Bride of Frankenstein". Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, the third of four children, was born on January 15, 1879, in Chelsea, London, England. His father was the Honorable Sir Edward Peirson Thesiger, KCB (Order of the Bath), Clerk Assistant to Parliament (The Chief Clerk of the House of Lords)".
Gaunt, sharp-featured British character actor whose film appearances were too few but almost invariably delightful. A veteran of the stage, Thesiger brought his rich, fruity delivery and polished timing to a series of eccentric, sometimes menacing, but usually comically haughty character roles. He was perhaps most brilliant in two classic ...
Ernest Thesiger gave much time to ecclesiastical work. For Chelsea Old Church he embroidered two kneelers; one of which commemorates the actor Henry Mossop, a Chelsea resident in 1775 and close friend of David Garrick. For this he designed the masks of tragedy and comedy, flambeaux and laurel wreaths symbolising the stage.
Dr Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) befriends the Monster (Boris Karloff) in Bride of Frankenstein (Universal 1935) When World War I broke out in 1914, Thesiger enlisted for active service. Rumour holds that he wanted to join a Scottish regiment so as to be able to wear a kilt, but whatever the truth of the matter, he was sent home after being ...
