Lawrence Grant

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Lawrence Grant (1918)

Percy Reginald Lawrence Grant (born October 30, 1870 in Bournemouth , England , † February 19, 1952 in Santa Barbara , California , USA ) was a British theater and film actor in the USA .

Life

Lawrence Grant began his stage acting career in Great Britain during the 1890s. In 1908 he made his first tour of the United States as a member of a theater company. He then settled permanently in the United States and appeared in almost 20 Broadway productions in New York between 1908 and 1922 . In addition, he was able to gain a foothold in silent films early on, taking his first film role in 1915 in The Eternal City . Lawrence Grant became a successful supporting actor who had appeared in over 100 Hollywood films by 1945. Mostly he embodied dignified British people such as doctors, aristocrats, politicians or lawyers. Perhaps his most famous role was Reverend Carmichael, a British minister in China, in the drama Shanghai Express on the side of Marlene Dietrich .

At the Academy Awards in 1931 Grant acted as the moderator of the event, but himself he was never nominated for this award. The actor had been a great admirer of the Native Americans since childhood. Every book that described the history and culture of the Indians was read by him. Years later he was given the opportunity to spend a few months with members of Native American tribes in Wyoming and Montana . He filmed his experiences in the first color film option at the time, Kinemacolor . He later made the educational film Travels with Kinemacolor from the film recordings . Lawrence Grant continued to act in the theater even after his film career ended. When he gave four performances in a short time at the Santa Barbara Lobero Theater during a heat wave in the summer of 1951, his health was damaged. He died the following February at the age of 81.

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SURNAME Grant, Lawrence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lawrence-Grant, Percy Reginald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actor in the USA
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Bournemouth , Dorset , UK
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1952
Place of death Santa Barbara , California , USA