Tony Haygarth

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Anthony "Tony" Haygarth (born February 4, 1945 in Liverpool , † March 10, 2017 in Royal Tunbridge Wells ) was a British actor and playwright .

Life

At the age of 18, Haygarth worked as a lifeguard in Torquay . He tried unsuccessfully as an escape artist, worked as a nurse in psychiatry and worked as an actor in various amateur theaters . He then became a professional theater actor and often appeared in so-called repertory theater productions. He later had theater engagements with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater . In 1980 he played at the Cottesloe Theater in London in the mystery play The Nativity and in The Long Voyage Home based on the motifs of the plays The Moon of the Caribbees , Bound East For Cardiff , In The Zone and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill . In 1981 he appeared in The Witch Hunt at the National Theater . In 1983 he was engaged again at the Cottesloe Theater, in William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream . In 1983 he also played the role of James Lingk in the world premiere of the play Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet ; In 1986 Haygarth played this role at the Mermaid Theater in London. In 1984 he joined the Lyttelton Theater in London and at the Grand Theater in Wolverhampton in the comedy She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith on. In 1988 he appeared again at the National Olivier Theater as Caliban in Shakespeare's late work The Tempest . For this he received the Laurence Olivier Theater Award in the category Outstanding Performance of the Year in a Supporting Role in 1988 . In 1988 he appeared at the Cottesloe Theater in London as Pisanio in Cymbeline .

In 1992 he played Trinculo in The Tempest with the English Shakespeare Company (ESC) at the Royalty Theater in London . At the ESC he also played the title roles in The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth . In 1995 he played the role of bookmaker Simms in the play Simpatico by Sam Shepard at the Royal Court Theater . For this Haygarth received the Clarence Derwent Award . In 1996 he played Juror No. 3 in the play The Twelve Jurors by Reginald Rose , in a production by Harold Pinter , for which he also received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Theater Award at the Comedy Theater in London and the Old Vic Theater in Bristol . From May to August 2008 he played the garbage driver Alfred P. Doolittle in a production of Pygmalion at the Old Vic Theater in London. In 2010 he took on Mr. Boo in the musical The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright at the Vaudeville Theater in London . In May 2010 Haygarth played Ken in the play A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn at the Clwyd Theatr in Cymru .

Haygarth also wrote his own plays . His stage first The Lie deals with the circumstances of the death of Shakespeare's rival Christopher Marlowe . Haygarth also dealt with Shakespeare's Dark Lady , the adored lady from Shakespeare's sonnets , whose identity is still unclear today. Haygarth analyzed a portrait of the portrait painter Nicholas Hilliard , Mistress Holland , and concluded that it must indeed be the poet Emilia Lanier , a possible candidate for the identity of the Dark Lady . In his own play Dark Meaning Mouse , Haygarth dealt with the relationship between Shakespeare, Emilia and the astrologer Simon Forman .

Since the early 1970s, Haygarth also worked in film and television . He had his first film role in 1971 in the British comedy Percy - The Sparrow in Hand , a farce about a penis transplant . Haygarth then played roles in films in a wide variety of film genres: in crime films , period plays, horror films and situation comedies . Most of the time he was cast as a cast of solid, reliable characters who have both feet on the ground. Haygarth has also appeared in numerous British television series .

Haygarth was married and had two daughters.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tony Haygarth dies aged 72
  2. Glengarry Glen Ross Theater Database
  3. Olivier Winners ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2010 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. The Official London Theater Guide  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk
  4. ENGLISH SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: Macbeth / The Tempest
  5. ^ Tony Haygarth Short Biography Official Fakers website
  6. Twelve Angry Men MJE Productions
  7. theater; Twelve Angry Men Comedy Theater, London
  8. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, The Bristol Old Vic, 7 March 1996 Official website of Harold Pinter
  9. PYGMALION ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Old Vic Theater  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oldvictheatre.com
  10. Tony Haygarth Mr Boo ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2009 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. Short biography on The Rise and Fall of Little Voice  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.littlevoicewestend.com
  11. Veteran actor Tony Haygarth comes to Clwyd Theatr Cymru for Ayckbourn play Chester Chronicle, May 12, 2010
  12. Williams's 'Cat' Purrs Back to Life: The Big Daddy Of Them All in: New York Times, September 26, 2001
  13. Emilia Bassano - Shakespeare's Mistress? Official website of Peter Bassano
  14. Unmasked - the identity of Shakespeare's Dark Lady in: The Independent, December 7, 2003