Alan Webb (actor)
| Alan Webb | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alan Norton Fletcher Webb 2 July 1906 York, England |
| Died | 22 June 1982 (aged 75) Chichester, England |
Alan Webb (2 July 1906 - 22 June 1982) was an English stage and film actor.
[edit] Biography and career
Educated at Bramcote School, Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire and RN Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Navy.
Webb's early days were spent performing with the Lena Ashwell Players (1924–26), J.B. Fagan's Oxford Players (1926–28), the Croydon Repertory Company (1932–33) and the Old Vic-Sadler's Wells Company (1934–35). In 1936 he starred in Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 and directed Coward's Peace In Our Time in 1947. In 1960 he appeared in Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros, directed by Orson Welles, at the Royal Court Theatre in the role of "Dudard".
He appeared in many plays on Broadway, starting with the aforementioned Tonight at 8:30 in 1936 through his final production, I Never Sang for My Father in 1968, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
He made his film debut in Challenge to Lassie (1949), and went onto appear in such films as The Pumpkin Eater (1964), King Rat (1965); Chimes at Midnight (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) and The Duellists (1977).
He appeared several times on the BBC Play of the Month, Hallmark Hall of Fame and Play for Today, as well as popular television series Z-Cars, The Protectors, and Public Eye. In 1963 he was offered the title role in the BBC's new science fiction series Doctor Who but declined.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Challenge to Lassie (1949)
- The Astonished Heart (1950)
- The Cruel Sea (1953)
- West of Zanzibar (1954)
- Lease of Life (1954)
- The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
- The Silent Enemy (1958)
- The Scapegoat (1959)
- The Third Secret (1964)
- The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
- King Rat (1965)
- Chimes at Midnight (1965)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
- Interlude (1968)
- Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
- King Lear (1971)
- Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
- The Canterbury Tales (1972)
- The Duellists (1977)
- The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
- Rough Cut (1980)
[edit] External links
- Alan Webb at the Internet Movie Database
- Internet Broadway Database listing
- Webb film listing at fandango.com
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