Ian MacNaughton

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Ian MacNaughton (born December 30, 1925 in Glasgow , † December 10, 2002 in Munich ) was a British television, musical, opera and theater director and actor .

Ian MacNaughton initially wanted to study medicine. However, while serving with the Royal Marines during World War II , he came into contact with acting when he became a member of the Navy's Globe Players theater troupe . So after the war he turned to acting. After a career in which he had played various smaller roles - for example in Rob Roy - The Royal Rebel ( Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue , 1954, directed by Harold French) and Lawrence of Arabia ( Lawrence of Arabia , 1962, directed by David Lean ) - he became a television director. Even as an actor, he made appearances in television series during the pioneering days of the BBC (e.g. in Hancock's Half Hour ). The high point of his work was directing 42 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus . He also directed the German episode Monty Python's flying circus , the feature film Monty Python's wonderful world of gravity ( And Now for Something Completely Different , 1971) and Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl . Between 1970 and 1975 he and his team were nominated four times for the BAFTA TV Award , which he won in 1973. In addition to working for television, MacNaughton also worked as a stage director (e.g. The Marx Sisters , 1996, George Dreyfuss ). He has lived in Munich since the 1970s.

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SURNAME MacNaughton, Ian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British television, musical, opera and theater director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2002
Place of death Munich