Annabel Maule

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Annabel Maule (born September 8, 1922 in London ) is a British actress .

Life

Margaret Annabel Maule was born as the daughter of Donovan Maule (1899-1982) and his wife Mollie Maule in the London borough of Lambeth . Her father was an officer (major) in the British Army ; her mother actress. Maule's parents moved from Great Britain to Mombasa , Kenya , in the inter-war period , in order to set up an independent colonial theater scene there; this was supposed to be aimed at colonial officers and the British, who returned as settlers and farmers, especially after the Second World War . In 1948/1949 Donovan / Maule founded the Donovan Maule Theater Club in Nairobi , the first professional theater company in Kenya with full theater operations. It later became the Donovan Maule Theater (The Donovan Maule Theater Ltd.).

In 1948 Maule began her stage career as a theater actress in Kenya. At first she also performed in Great Britain. In 1950 she starred at the Stratford Festival in the comedy His Excellency directed by Campbell Christie and Dorothy Christie opposite Eric Portman . She performed at the Kenya National Theater, founded in 1952. In the 1970s and 1980s Maule was director, actress and director (including Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn ) at the Donovan Maule Theater; she was criticized by staff and actors for her sometimes "tyrannical" leadership style. In 1984 the Donovan Maule Theater had to close for financial reasons. Maule taught drama at the Nairobi Theater Academy in the 1990s. Maule's career as a stage actress lasted a very long time. In 2002 she appeared at the Phoenix Players Theater in Nairobi in the play Striped Leopard by Oby Obyerodhyambo as the white lady next to Sam Madoka .

Maule also took on film and television roles since the late 1930s. In 1938 she made her cinema debut in a small role in the comedy film Save a Little Sunshire . Later, Maule mainly worked for television . In 1948, she played the role of Isabella Linton in a television adaptation of the novel Sturmhöhe . Maule was often seen in TV versions of plays, such as the BBC series BBC Sunday-Night Theater . In 1956 she worked for this series in the play Dark Victory , in November 1959 in the play The Velvet Alley . Occasionally she also took on roles in some British television series ; however, her television appearances included long breaks and remained largely sporadic.

Maule had her last film role in 1985 in the Kenyan film Out of Africa . She embodied Lady Byrne, the wife of the British Governor Joseph Aloysius Byrne (1871-1942). In her short scene, when Baroness Karen Blixen (played by Meryl Streep ) falls on her knees in front of the governor, Maule intervenes as the governor's wife, shakes hands with Blixen and gives her her word to contact her husband for a settlement To use the Kikuya tribe .

Maule occasionally also worked for the radio . In 1954 she played a small role in a radio version of the Shakespeare drama Henry VIII .

Maule was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1975 ; this honored her services to promoting British theater in Kenya. Maule wrote her family history in the autobiographical book Theater Neat The Equator. The Donovan Maule Story (2004).

Filmography

  • 1938: Save a Little Sunshine
  • 1939: First Stop North
  • 1948: Wuthering Heights (TV movie)
  • 1952: Beauty and the Beast (TV movie)
  • 1956: The Tamer Tamed (TV movie)
  • 1956: BBC Saturday-Night Theater: Dark Victory
  • 1957: A Time of Say (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1959: BBC Saturday-Night Theater: The Velvet Alley
  • 1960: Deadly Knowledge ( Danger Tomorrow )
  • 1960: On Trial (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1960: Commissioner Maigret (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1961: Boyd QC (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1968: Dickson of Dock Green (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1985: Out of Africa (Out of Africa)

literature

  • Annabel Maule: Theater Near The Equator. The Donovan Maule Story . East African Educational Publishers Ltd. 2004. ISBN 978-9966-25-226-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b MAULE, Annabel Entry at the British Film Institute
  2. ↑ a b This could be final curtain call for struggling Phoenix theater in: Business Daily of February 12, 2010
  3. ^ African Theater Rises From The Ashes in: The Bryan Times, July 31, 1986
  4. ↑ ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA THEATER WORLD Magazines: 1950s (July 1950; August 1950)
  5. ↑ a b Writers in Politics Essays; Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo (1981) (excerpts from Google Books)
  6. ↑ Enter Nairobi, Center Days ; Theater Critic from June 20, 2010
  7. ↑ Jill Stanford ( August 20, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) Role directory of actress Jill Stanford
  8. ↑ Favorite film stars Birmingham History (Forum), August 6, 2008
  9. ↑ Artistes' careers soar with 'Dance into Space' in; Business Daily of July 18, 2012
  10. ↑ Kenya: The Colorful Play On Black And White allAfrica.com of April 13, 2002
  11. ^ "BBC Sunday-Night Theater" The Velvet Alley (TV episode 1959) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb. In: imdb.com. April 4, 2005, accessed January 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ HENRY VIII (1954) cast
personal data
SURNAME Maule, Annabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maule, Annabelle; Maule Margaret Annabel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK