Paul Rogers (actor)

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Paul Rogers (born March 22, 1917 in Plympton , Devon , England - † October 6, 2013 in London , England) was an award-winning British actor in film, television and theater. In his long acting career, he starred in over 70 roles in British cinema and television productions between 1951 and 1997, including films such as Beau Brummell , Our Man in Havana , The Damned of the Seas , In the Fisherman's Shoes or 2 Through 3 Doesn't Go .

life and career

Paul Rogers, born in Plympton, Devon in 1917, studied acting in Dartington with Michael Chekhov in 1938 . In 1949 he joined the Old Vic Company as a stage actor, where he played numerous roles in Shakespeare , including those of Bottom and Sir John Falstaff . Among the highlights of his career is his performance as Max in Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming , directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 , for which Paul Rogers won the Tony Award for Best Actor. He also played the role of the aging actor in Ronald Harwood's The Dresser in his first Broadway production.

Rogers began his film career in 1951 with a minor role in George Hoellering's drama Murder in the Cathedral . Numerous prominent supporting roles in British films followed in the 1950s. Among other things he was seen in films like To paradise condemned by Muriel Box , in the drama Svengali directed by Noel Langley , in Curtis Bernhardt's costume drama Beau Brummell or in Carol Reed's spy film Our Man in Havana alongside Alec Guinness .

In the 1960s he had screen appearances in Ken Hughes Oscar Wilde's biography The Man with the Green Carnation , in Ralph Thomas' drama And Tomorrow Everything , in Peter Ustinov's literary adaptation of Herman Melville's classic The Damned of the Seas , in Daniel Petrie's drama Luck in His Poor , in Charles Crichton's crime film Who Rides a Tiger , in Michael Anderson's period film In the Fisherman's Shoes or in the drama 2 through 3 does not go by director Peter Hall .

In the 1970s and 1980s, his cinema appearances became less frequent. In 1974 he was seen in the musical Lost in the Stars by director Daniel Mann or in Anthony Harvey's historical drama Christina - Between Throne and Love alongside Peter Finch , Liv Ullmann and Cyril Cusack .

As early as 1955, Paul Rogers had turned to British television and played there in episodes of successful series. His appearances in the new medium included Tales from Soho (1956), BBC Sunday-Night Theater (1956-1958), Secret Mission for John Drake (1961), Thursday Theater (1965), Public Eye (1972), The Little Lord ( 1976), Rumpole of the Bailey (1979), Struggle (1983/84), Police Rescue - Hazardous Operations (1991–1993) or Kavanagh QC (1995).

In 1997 he ended his film career with a small guest role in Gillian Armstrong's romantic drama Oscar and Lucinda .

His biography Paul Rogers by author Audrey Williamson was published in 1957. Rogers married Rosalind Mary Boxall after divorcing Muriel Jocelyn Maire Wynne in 1955. The marriage lasted until her death in 2004. The couple had two children.

Paul Rogers died on October 6, 2013 at the age of 96 in London.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: Murder in the Cathedral
  • 1954: Damned to Paradise (The Beachcomber)
  • 1954: Beau Brummell - rebel and seducer (Beau Brummell)
  • 1954: Svengali
  • 1959: Our Man in Havana (Our Man in Havana)
  • 1960: The Man with the Green Carnation (The Trials of Oscar Wilde)
  • 1960: A Circle of Deception
  • 1961: And Tomorrow Everything (No Love for Johnnie)
  • 1961: Branded (The Mark)
  • 1962: The Pot Carriers
  • 1962: Burning Debt (Life for Ruth)
  • 1962: The Wild and the Willing
  • 1962: The Damned of the Seas (Billy Budd)
  • 1963: Happiness in His Arms (Stolen Hours)
  • 1964: The Third Secret
  • 1965: He Who Rides a Tiger
  • 1968: Decline and Fall… of a Birdwatcher
  • 1968: The Shoes of the Fisherman (The Shoes of the Fisherman)
  • 1968: A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 1969: The Reckoning
  • 1969: 2 goes through 3 are not (Three Into Two Will not Go)
  • 1969: War in the mirror (The Looking Glass War)
  • 1972: I Want What I Want
  • 1973: The Homecoming
  • 1974: Lost in the Stars
  • 1974: Christina - Between Throne and Love (The Abdication)
  • 1975: The Old Curiosity Shop
  • 1981: The Prince and the Pauper
  • 1984: Nothing Lasts Forever
  • 1997: Oscar and Lucinda (Oscar and Lucinda)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Paul Rogers in: British Film and Television Year Book , Volume 9, by Peter Noble, Cinema TV Today., 1959, p. 234
  2. ^ Obituary for Paul Rogers in: The Stage
  3. ^ Paul Rogers in: Michael Chekhov , from Franc Chamberlain, Routledge, 2004, p. 33
  4. ^ Biographical data from Paul Rogers in: Tynan Letters , by Kathleen Tynan, Random House, 2012
  5. ^ Paul Rogers in: The New York Times
  6. ^ Obituary for Paul Rogers in: The Telegraph
personal data
SURNAME Rogers, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor in film, television and theater
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Plympton , Devon , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2013
Place of death London , England, UK