Alan Badel

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Alan Fernand Badel (born September 11, 1923 in Rusholme , Manchester , † March 19, 1982 in Chichester , West Sussex , England ) was a British theater and film actor .

Life

After attending Burnage High School, Alan Badel studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1939 to 1941 . He made his theatrical debut in 1940 in James Bridie's The Black Eye at the Repertory Theater in Oxford . During the Second World War he served in the British Parachute Regiment and supported the French Resistance . He then concentrated again on his theater career, so he was seen several times at the Old Vic Theater in London in plays such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet and also in Stratford-upon-Avon , where in 1950 he played the court jester in King Lear alongside John Gielgud played.

He had his first major role in the film in 1953 as John the Baptist in the US-American Bible filming Salome at the side of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger . In the film Women around Richard Wagner ( Magic Fire , 1955), he played Richard Wagner, another well-known personality. From the 1950s he appeared in several British television series, such as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1958) based on Jane Austen 's novel of the same name and as Edmond Dantès in Count of Monte Cristo (1964) based on the novel The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas . In 1963 Badel appeared in The Rehearsal , an English adaptation of Jean Anouilh's Die Probe or Die punishede Liebe , also on Broadway in New York .

Other films in which he participated are the sports film Lockender Lorbeer ( This Sporting Life , 1963) with Richard Harris , Stanley Donen's crime comedy Arabesque ( Arabesque , 1966) with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren , the thriller Der Schakal ( The Day of the Jackal , 1973) by director Fred Zinnemann and the war film Der Wilde Haufen von Navarone ( Force 10 from Navarone , 1978) with Harrison Ford and Franco Nero .

From 1942 until his death Badel was married to the actress Yvonne Owen (1923–1990). The marriage produced a daughter, the actress Sarah Badel . Alan Badel died of a heart attack in 1982 at his home in Chichester, West Sussex, aged 58 .

Filmography (selection)

Stage appearances (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. bfi.org.uk ( British Film Institute )
  2. ^ Brian McFarlane, Anthony Slide: The Encyclopedia of British Film . Methuen Publishing Ltd., 2005, ISBN 0413775267 , p. 38.
  3. ↑ cf. britishsites.co.uk ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britishsites.co.uk
  4. ↑ John Willis: Theater World, 1981-1982 . 38, Crown Publishers, May 4, 1983, p. 227.
personal data
SURNAME Badel, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Badel, Alan Fernand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Rusholme , Manchester
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1982
Place of death Chichester , West Sussex , England