Glen Byam Shaw
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Glencairn Alexander "Glen" Byam Shaw, was an English actor and theatre director, known for his dramatic productions in the 1950s and his operatic productions in the 1960s and later.
Shaw in The Vagabond Queen (1929)
John Gielgud
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Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director. With his contemporaries Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated th
Glen Byam Shaw
…later. In the 1920s and 1930s Byam Shaw was a successful actor, both in romantic leads and in character parts. He worked frequently with his old friend John Gielgud. After working as co-director with Gielgud at the end of the 1930s, he preferred to direct rather than act. He served in the armed forces during the…
Gielgud in the role of Benedick in a 1959 production of Much Ado about Nothing
Centre: Marion, Kate and Ellen Terry and, far right, Fred Terry at Ellen's Silver Jubilee matinée, Drury Lane, 12 June 1906. Everyone shown was a member of the Terry family.
Noël Coward with Lilian Braithwaite, his, and later Gielgud's, co-star in The Vortex
The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Gielgud honed his skill as a Shakespearean