Micheál Mac Liammóir

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Micheál Mac Liammóir (birth name: Alfred Willmore ) (born October 25, 1899 in Kilburn , London , † March 6, 1978 in Dublin ) was an Irish actor , author , theater director , set designer , painter and dramaturge .

Life

Mac Liammóir grew up in England as a child and was part of Noël Coward's theater company . He studied painting at the Slade School of Art in London and painted many different works of art in his life. Mac Liammóir then traveled through Europe in the 1920s and learned the Irish language. In Ireland he met the actor Hilton Edwards , who became his longtime partner. Both played at the theater stage of the Abbey Theater in Dublin and they jointly founded the Gate Theater in Dublin in 1928 , where they acted as actors and theater directors. Mac Liammóir was also active at the Gate Theater as a set designer for many theater plays and wrote various works as an author and dramaturge. After World War II, Mac Liammóir appeared on the National Broadcasting Company for the production of Great Catherine with Gertrude Lawrence . He was also seen in the 1951 play Othello and produced the ghost story Return to Glennascaul . In the film production of Orson Welles' Othello he appeared as Iago . He later wrote the book Put Money In Thy Purse about the chaotic filming . In 1953 he starred in Orson Welles’s film King Lear on CBS .

In 1964 he received the Irish TV Jacobs Award for his filmed show The Importance of Being Oscar , which traced the life of Oscar Wilde . He worked as an actor in other films in the 1960s and early 1970s, including The Letter to the Kremlin from 1970 and What's the Matter with Helen? from 1971.

The work The Importance of Being Micheál by John Keyes is based on the life of Mac Liammóir.

Works (selection)

Books

  • Put Money In Thy Purse
  • Each Actor On His Ass
  • CEO Meala Lá Seaca
  • Enter a goldfish
  • All for Hecuba
  • Oícheanna Sidhe
  • Lá agus Oíche
  • Aisteoirí Faoi Dhá Sholas
  • Theater in Ireland
  • Ireland
  • Bláth agus Taibhse
  • To Oscar Of No Importance
  • WBYeats and his world (together with Eavan Boland)

Plays

  • Diarmuid and Grainne / Diarmuid agus Gráinne
  • I'll Met By Moonlight
  • Oíche Bealtaine
  • Where Stars walk
  • The Importance of Being Oscar ( one-person piece )
  • I Must Be Talking To my Friends ( one-person piece )
  • Talking About Yeats ( one-person piece )

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • 1964: Jacobs Award for The Importance of Being Oscar
  • 1999: Irish postage stamp printed with Mac Liammóir

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Mac Liammóir, Micheál
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willmore, Alfred (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor, theater director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1978
Place of death Dublin , Ireland