Richard Goolden
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Richard Percy Herbert Goolden, OBE was a British actor, most famous for his portrayal of Mole from Kenneth Grahame's 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows in A A Milne's 1929 stage adaptation,
Goolden, circa late 1930s
The Cherry Orchard
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The Cherry Orchard is the last play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye, and it appeared as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersbu
Richard Goolden
…fishmonger, a guardian angel and a solemn jester rolled generously into one." In the same year he played the aged butler Firs in Fagan's production of The Cherry Orchard at the Royalty, London. The Times later noted that he was only thirty when he played the role, and in his early years was usually happier when cast as…
Scene from Act 3 of the original production at the Moscow Art Theatre
Actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski as Leonid Gayev, c. 1922
The Cherry Orchard memorabilia at the Chekhov Gymnasium literary museum.