Llewellyn Rees

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Walter Llewellyn Rees (born June 18, 1901 in Charmouth , Dorset , England , † January 7, 1994 in Barnes ) was a British actor .

Life

Rees attended King Edward's School in Birmingham and Keble College at the University of Oxford . In the early 1920s he completed an acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London . Rees initially worked as a tutor rather than a full-time actor. He made his professional theater debut at the Empire Theater in Nottingham, as a police inspector in the play The Joker by Edgar Wallace . He has appeared in so-called repertory theater productions in Newcastle , Whitley Bay , Cardiff and Leeds . In September 1932 he made his London debut at the Embassy Theater in Swiss Cottage in the war drama Miracle at Verdun by Hans Chlumberg . At the Arts Theater and Westminster Theater he played the role of Carrington in the poetic play The Lake by Dorothy Massingham . He then became a permanent member of the Greater London Players ensemble . In 1935 he played at the Comedy Theater in London; 1936 on the beach Theater as Malinov in the play Judgment Day by Elmer Rice .

After the Second World War he had theater engagements at the Oxford Playhouse in The Public Prosecutor by Georgi Dzhagarov (1954). In the 1960s and 1970s, Rees performed at the Lyric Theater in Hammersmith . At the Old Vic Theater in Bristol he played Polonius in Hamlet . At the Theater Royal and the Haymarket Theater in London he played the Bishop of Buenos Aires in Fritz Hochwälder's play The Strong Are Lonely . In 1959 he took over the role of dean in the play My Friend Judas by Andrew Sinclair . In 1960 he joined the beach Theater as Brandy in Settled Out of Court by Henry Cecil on. In 1962 he starred in the role of Justice Worthy at the Mermaid Theater and at Her Majesty's Theater in the musical Lock Up Your Daughters by Lionel Bart and Laurie Johnson . Other theater roles in later years were the Father Ambrose in the play The Servants and the Snow by Iris Murdoch and the old King Duncan in Macbeth .

From the 1950s on, Rees also worked for film and television . Rees was mainly used in concise supporting roles, in which he drew characters and types. He embodied gentlemen , lawyers , clerks, bailiffs , examining magistrates and judges . He masterfully drew doctors , churchmen , funeral directors , accountants , coroners and tycoons ; once he even took on the role of an American newspaper reporter .

In 1970 he played the role of speaker in the historical film Cromwell - War to the King . In 1978 he played the Berlin cathedral provost Bernhard Lichtenberg in the miniseries Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family . Also in 1978 he played the Lord Chief Justice in the sex comedy Mach 'on, Emmanuelle . Rees continued to appear in smaller roles in front of the camera well into old age. In 1988 he played Sir John in the comedy A Fish Called Wanda ; In 1993, shortly before his death, he was the old major in the comedy film And Forever The Heirs Sneak .

In addition to his work as an actor, Rees also worked as a theater manager. He was General Secretary of the Actors' Equity Association (1940-1946), Secretary of the Federation of Theater Unions (1944-1946), Director of the Old Vic Theater (1945-1947), Drama Director at the Arts Council of Great Britain (1947 –1949), Administrative Director ( Administrator ) of the Old Vic Theater (1949–1951) and Administrative Director ( Administrator ) of the Arts Theater (1951–1952). From 1951 to 1994 he was Honorary President of the International Theater Institute .

In 1961 he married the young actress Madeleine Newbury . Rees had a son and a daughter.

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personal data
SURNAME Rees, Llewellyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rees, Walter Llewellyn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Charmouth , Dorset , England
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1994
Place of death Barnes