George Rose

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George Walter Rose (born February 19, 1920 in Bicester , Oxfordshire , † May 5, 1988 in Sosúa , Dominican Republic ) was a British actor .

Life

George Walter Rose was born to Walter John Alfred Rose, a butcher , and his wife Eva Sarah (Rolfe) Rose in a village near Oxford . He left school at the age of 16 and then worked briefly as a farm worker and secretary at Oxford University . During World War II he was drafted into military service and served three years in the British Army.

He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London . He played his first small role in 1944 at the Old Vic Theater in London. He made his London debut in 1944 in Peer Gynt . Between 1944 and 1948 he played at the Old Vic . In 1945 he took on the roles of Peto , Thomas, Duke of Clarence , Bardolph and Moldy in the first and second part of Shakespeare's historical drama Henry IV. He was also in the same year as Christopher Hatton in the comedy The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and as Member of the chorus seen in Oedipus Rex . With the role of Peto , he made his theater debut on Broadway in 1946 . In 1946 he played the Duke of Burgundy in King Lear and Montfleury in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Old Vic . In 1947 he played the Duke of Surrey in Shakespeare's Richard II , Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew and an English officer in Saint Joan . In the 1949/1950 season he played for the Royal Shakespeare Company . In the 1950s, he starred in numerous comedies at various London theaters, including the Autolycus in Shakespeare's late work The Winter's Tale and Holzapfel (Dogberry) in Much Ado About Nothing .

From 1959 Rose played regularly on Broadway again. He subsequently played the Crab Apple (1959), the Common Man in the historical drama A Man in Every Season (1961; a role he had previously played successfully in London), one of the grave diggers in John Gielgud's production of Hamlet (1964), a curious shopkeeper in William Hanley piece Slow Dance on Killing Ground (1964), the embittered officer Martin Ruiz in Peter Shaffer's the royal hunt of the sun (1965) and the detective Truscott in Joe Orton's play loot loot ( 1968). In 1968 he played the garbage truck driver Alfred P. Doolittle with great success in My Fair Lady in New York City Center .

In 1969 he played the role of Louis Greff, the friend of Coco Chanel , in the musical Coco , for which he received a Tony Award nomination . He got another Tony Award nomination in 1974 for his role in the comedy My Fat Friend , opposite Lynn Redgrave. In 1976 he won the Tony Award for his Alfred P. Dootlittle in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady . At the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1980 he played Major General Stanley in the comic opera The Pirates of Penzance ; his partners were Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt , for which he was again nominated for the Tony Award. In 1984 he appeared at the San Francisco Opera in the operetta Die Fledermaus . In 1986 he won his second Tony Award for The Mystery of Edwin Drood . Shortly before his death, he was on tour with The Mystery of Edwin Drood .

Rose made his official film debut in 1952 as a coachman in the literary film The Tales of Mr. Pickwick based on the novel The Pickwickiers by Charles Dickens . In 1955 he played in the role of Rick Lambert in the crime drama Track the Man Down, a money robber and adolescent lover of the sister of the female lead ( Petula Clark ), who leaves the booty with his girlfriend, takes control of a motor yacht and holds several people hostage takes. In the film drama Precious Burden in 1957 he played the role of Donny , a no longer very young man who lives with a married woman ( Elizabeth Sellars ) and whose husband surprises him during one of his rare visits. In the thriller Death is Delayed , he played a driver who was responsible for the fatal accident of a girl and was supposed to be killed by the girl's father in a bomb explosion. In the 1966 film epic Hawaii he took on the role of officer Captain Janders . In 1971 he played with wry humor the role of of Walter Matthau dedicated servant and butler Harold in the film comedy Nobody kills as bad as I . Rose also appeared in several British television series . In the miniseries Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family , he played the role of Franz Loewy .

Private

Rose lived in Greenwich Village . In 1984 Rose bought a vacation home in Sosúa , Dominican Republic, where he often stayed during breaks between films. Rose, who was unmarried and homosexual , took Domingo (Juan) Vásquez, a then 14-year-old boy, into his house with whom he had a sexual relationship shortly after his arrival. In 1986 he adopted Vásquez. In May 1988, Rose was beaten to death by his adopted son, his biological father, and three other men. He was buried in a grave without an inscription in a cemetery near Sosúa.

Filmography

  • 1949: Midnight Frolics
  • 1952: The Tales of Mr. Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers)
  • 1953: The Beggar's Opera (The Beggar's Opera)
  • 1953: The Square Ring
  • 1954: Four fall by the wayside (The Good Die Young)
  • 1955: You were thirteen (The Night My Number Came Up)
  • 1955: Track the Man Down
  • 1956: The Long Arm
  • 1957: Precious Burden (The Shiralee)
  • 1957: Captain Seasick (Barnacle Bill)
  • 1958: A Tale of Two Cities
  • 1958: The Last Night of the Titanic (A Night to Remember)
  • 1959: A City Is Looking For A Killer (Jack the Ripper)
  • 1959: Death is Belated (Jet Storm)
  • 1960: The Flesh and the Fiends
  • 1961: And Tomorrow Everything (No Love for Johnnie)
  • 1966: Hawaii
  • 1971: Nobody kills as badly as I do (A New Leaf)
  • 1973: The Mysterious Angel (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler)
  • 1978: Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family
  • 1983: The Pirates of Penzance (The Pirates of Penzance)
  • 1984: You Can't Take It with You

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hollywood Songsters: Allyson to Funicello Petula Clark
  2. The Shiralee 1957 Synopsis Australian Screen
  3. The Shiralee 1957 clip Australian Screen
  4. Guide to British cinema Jet Storm
  5. ^ A New Leaf (1971) Rotten Tomatoes
  6. The Killing of Mr George in: The Sunday Times, May 25, 1997