Geoffrey Kendal
Geoffrey Kendal (7 September 1909 – 14 May 1998) was an English actor-manager.
Born Richard Geoffrey Bragg in Kendal, Westmorland, he took the name of his place of birth as his surname. He married the actress Laura Liddell. They had two daughters together, Jennifer and Felicity Kendal who became successful actresses in their own right.
He made his living as an actor-manager leading a repertory theatre company "Shakespeareana" on tour throughout India following the Second World War.[1] They would perform Shakespeare before royalty one day, and in rough rural villages the next; many of their audiences were schoolchildren.[2] Their story was loosely told by Merchant Ivory in their feature film Shakespeare Wallah (1965).
Kendal's life story, The Shakespeare Wallah: the Autobiography of Geoffrey Kendal, co-authored by Clare Colvin, was published in 1986. In 1990, he and Laura Kendal were given a joint Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Direction, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Theatre.
[edit] References
- ^ Jennifer Kendal - Biography and images
- ^ Kendal, Felicity (1999) White Cargo. Penguin
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