Peter Glenville
| Peter Glenville | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne 28 October 1913 Hampstead, London, England, UK |
| Died | 3 June 1996 (aged 82) New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Actor, stage director |
Peter Glenville (born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne; 28 October 1913 – 3 June 1996) was an English film and stage actor and director.
Born in Hampstead, London, into a theatrical family, Glenville was the son of Shaun Glenville (born John Browne, 1884–1968), an Irish-born comedian, and Dorothy Ward, both pantomime performers.
He attended Stonyhurst College and then studied Law at Christ Church, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and performed in many roles for them.
Glenville appeared as an actor in the UK, where he also started directing. Between 1934 and 1947 he appeared in various leading roles "ranging from Tony Pirelli in Edgar Wallace's gangster drama 'On the Spot' and Stephen Cass in Mary Hayley Bell's horror thriller 'Duet For Two Hands' to Romeo, Prince Hal and... Hamlet in a production which he also directed for the Old Vic company in Liverpool..."
Glenville's directorial debut on Broadway was Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version in 1949, which starred Maurice Evans.
Other notable productions which followed included The Innocents (1950), the stage adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which starred Douglass Watson, Jack Hawkins and marked the Broadway debut of Olivia de Havilland (1951),Rattigan's Separate Tables (1954) and Georges Feydeau's Hotel Paradiso (1957).
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