Jerome Kilty

Jerome Kilty (born June 24, 1922 in Baltimore , Maryland , † September 6, 2012 in Norwalk , Connecticut ) was an American actor and author who was best known for his dramatizations of correspondence . His most famous work was Dear Liar, the adaptation of the 40-year correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell , a London actress.

Life

Kilty grew up the son of a state inspector on the Navajo Nation Reservation . As a soldier in the American Army in London, he visited the aged George Bernard Shaw during the war and was warmly received. The famous author impressed Kilty so much that he later became a Shaw expert. After the war Kilty visited with a state grant from the GI Bill , the Harvard University . He helped found the Brattle Theater Company in Cambridge in 1948 . As an actor he appeared in seven Broadway productions, among others . Kilty has played numerous roles in Shaw's plays. He died of cardiac arrest in a car accident.

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Dear Liar, the result of extensive research by Kilty, was performed on Broadway in 1960, with Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne as protagonists. The two-person piece turned out to be especially ideal for smaller stages and for touring theater. Kilty and his wife Cavada Humphrey presented it in France, Italy, Germany and Sweden, among others. Vienna's English Theater opened with a hit production by Dear Liar .

Kilty then created two more two-person pieces based on exchanges of love letters: Dear Love, based on the correspondence between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Dear Life regarding Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper .

Web links

• Jerome Kilty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jerome Kilty, Who Made a Career of Interpreting Shaw, Dies at 90 , obituary by Dennis Hevesisept in the New York Times , September 15, 2012