Other works for
Alec Guinness

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My Name Escapes Me: Diary of a Retiring Actor 1997 Autobiography written with John LeCarre

(1953) Played Richard III in Stratford Festival's tent theatre during its inaugural season

(1985) (autobiography) "Blessings in Disguise"

Author of "A Positively Final Appearance" (1999).

STAGE PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:

Title role, Hamlet, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1938.

Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Scottish Theatre Festival, Perth, Scotland, 1939.

Dylan Thomas in Dylan, Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 1964.

The Visitor in Converstions at Night

Gloucester in Richard III

Fool, King Lear, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1946.

Osric and third player, Hamlet, New Theatre, London, 1934.

Jack in Importance Of Being Ernest

The Cardinal in The Prisoner, Globe Theatre, 1954.

Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1937.

On 1st October, 1946, in London, played the part of Eric Birling in 'An Inspector Calls'.

(Stage debut) Libel!, Playhouse Theatre, London, 1934.

Appeared in Queer Cargo, Piccadilly Theatre, London, 1934.

Bob Acres, The Rivals, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1938.

Arthur Gower, Trelawny of the Wells, Old Vic Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1938.

Lorenzo, The Merchant of Venice, John Gielgud Company, Queen's Theatre, 1938.

Feodotik, The Three Sisters, John Gielgud Company, Queen's Theatre, 1938.

Osric, Reynaldo, and Player Queen, Hamlet, Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark, 1937.

Snake, The School for Scandal, John Gielgud Company, Queen's Theatre, 1937.

Aumerle and the groom, Richard III, John Gielgud Company, Queen's Theatre, London, 1937.

Exeter, Henry V, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1937.

Reynaldo and Osric, Hamlet, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1937.

Old Thorney, The Witch of Edmonton, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1936.

Le Beau and William, As You Like It, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1936.

Boyet, Love's Labour's Lost, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre London, 1936.

Workman and Yakov, The Seagull, New Theatre, 1936.

Sampson and apothecary, Romeo and Juliet, New Theatre, 1935.

The Wolf, Noah, New Theatre, 1935.

Arthur Wicksteed, Habeas Corpus, Lyric Theatre, London, 1973.

Father, Voyage 'round My Father, Haymarket Theatre, 1971.

John, Time Out of Mind, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England, 1970.

Harcourt-Reilly, The Cocktail Party, Chichester Festival, Chichester, England, then Wyndham's Theatre, both 1968.

Mrs. Artminster, Wise Child, Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1968.

Title role, Macbeth, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1966.

Von Berg, Incident at Vichy, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1966.

Berenger the First, Exit the King, Edinburgh Festival, then Royal Court Theatre, London, both 1963.

Title role, Ross, Haymarket Theatre, London, 1960.

Boniface, Hotel Paradiso, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, 1956.

King, All's Well That Ends Well, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, 1953.

The Scientist, Under the Sycamore Tree, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1952.

Title role, Hamlet, New Theatre, 1951.

Unidentified guest, The Cocktail Party, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Scotland, 1949 then Henry Miller's Theatre, New York City, 1950.

Dr. James Y. Simpson, The Human Touch, Savoy Theatre, London, 1949.

Menenius Agrippa, Coriolanus, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1948.

Hlestakov, The Government Inspector, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1948.

The Dauphin, Saint Joan, Old Vic Theatre, New Theatre, 1947.

Title role, Richard III, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1947.

Abel Drugger, The Alchemist, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1947.

Comte de Guiche, Cyrano de Bergerac, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1947.

Eric Birling, An Inspector Calls, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1947.

Garcin, Vicious Circle, Arts Theatre, London, 1946.

Mitya Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1946.

Lieutenant Teddy Graham, Flare Path, Henry Miller's Theatre, New York City, 1942.

Ferdinand, The Tempest, Old Vic Theatre, 1940.

Richard Meilhac, Cousin Muriel, Globe Theatre, London, 1940.

Herbert Pockett, Great Expectations, Rudolf Steiner Hall, London, 1939.

Michael Ransom, The Ascent of F.6, Old Vic Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1939.

Louis Debedat, The Doctor's Dilemma, Richmond, 1938.

Directed The Cocktail Party, Chichester Festival, then Wyndham's Theatre, both 1968.

Directed Hamlet, New Theatre, 1951.

Directed Twelfth Night, Old Vic Theatre Company, New Theatre, 1948.

Charleston, Thunder Rock, British cities, 1940.

Emile Flordon, Libel!, European and Egyptian cities, 1938.

Chorus, Henry V, European and Egyptian cities, 1938.

Bob Acres, The Rivals, European and Egyptian cities, 1938.

Title role, Hamlet, European and Egyptian cities, 1938.

Andrey Botvinnik, A Walk in the Woods, Comedy Theatre, London, 1989.

The Merchant of Venice, Chichester Festival, 1984.

Hilary, The Old Country, Queen's Theatre, 1977.

Jonathan Swift, Yahoo, Queen's Theatre, London, 1976.

Dudley, Family and a Fortune, Apollo Theatre, London, 1975.

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