The Waltz of the Toreadors (La Valse des toréadors) is a 1951 play by Jean Anouilh. This bitter farce is set in 1910 France and focuses on General Léon...
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Waltz of the Toreadors (also known as The Amorous General) is a 1962 film directed by John Guillermin and starring Peter Sellers and Dany Robin. It was...
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for no more than a month. Her Broadway credits include The Waltz of the Toreadors and The Frogs of Spring. Canfield's first credited performance on television...
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Mildred Natwick (category American people of Norwegian descent)
nominated for Tony Awards: in 1957 for The Waltz of the Toreadors, the same year she also starred in Tammy and the Bachelor with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie...
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Jean Anouilh (redirect from The Wild Bird)
as Ardèle (London: Methuen, 1951); La Valse des Toréadors translated by Hill as Waltz of the Toreadors (London: Elek, 1953; New York: Coward-McCann, 1953);...
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Anne Jackson (category American people of Irish descent)
The Waltz of the Toreadors, Mr. Peters' Connections and Lost in Yonkers. Jackson's screen credits include The Tiger Makes Out, The Secret Life of an...
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The Rat Race (1949), Not for Children (1951), The Fourposter (1951), The Ladies of the Corridor (1953), Festival (1955), The Waltz of the Toreadors (1958)...
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Catherine Russell (British actress) (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
Still, directed by the Ian Rickson for the Royal National Theatre and Mlle Guislaine de St.Euverte in The Waltz of the Toreadors opposite Peter Bowles...
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Brian Murray (actor) (category South African expatriates in the United States)
August 23, 2018 " 'The Waltz of the Toreadors' 1973" Playbill Vault, retrieved August 23, 2018 "1998 Recipients" Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine...
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Ian Ogilvy (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Travers, Run for Your Wife, The Millionairess by Shaw, The Waltz of the Toreadors, and others. He has also worked widely in the American theatre. Among his...
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Margaret Leighton (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
O'Ferrall's The Holly and the Ivy, Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury, John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors, Franklin J. Schaffner's The Best Man,...
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actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Robin was born Danielle Robin in Clamart. She performed with Peter Sellers in The Waltz of the Toreadors, and co-starred...
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Broadway included Olga in Tovarich (1952), Estelle in The Waltz of the Toreadors (1957), Justine in The Egg (1962), Miss Prose in Harold (1962), Mrs. Lazar...
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Hilda Braid (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Toreadors from 1956 to 1957, and Pickwick from 1963 to 1964. Later, she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in productions of Richard...
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Siobhan Hewlett (category Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art)
by Che Walker; Ginny in Relatively Speaking with Peter Bowles; The Waltz of the Toreadors at Chichester Festival Theatre directed by Angus Jackson; and...
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Peter Hall (director) (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
productions at The Arts included the English language premiere of The Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh. Hall made his debut at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre...
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Hugh Griffith (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Shakespearean and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the original production Look...
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Martin's Theatre 1941), A Month in the Country (New Theatre 1949), The Waltz of the Toreadors (Criterion Theatre 1956) and The Potting Shed (Globe Theatre 1958)...
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Eugene O'Neill Theatre (category 1920s architecture in the United States)
The Waltz of the Toreadors and in 1958 by The Firstborn and The Disenchanted. The investor Lester Osterman signed a contract in May 1959 to buy the theater...
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Medea, Here Are Ladies, Uncle Vanya, The Waltz of the Toreadors, and The Iceman Cometh in 1973, as well as The American Millionaire and Scapino in early...
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Peter Bowles (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Shaw's Pygmalion and the General in Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors, both at the Chichester Festival Theatre; and Judge Brack in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler...
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Al Weaver (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
role as curate Leonard Finch in the ITV series Grantchester (2014-present). Weaver was born in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester,...
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Coral Browne (category Australian emigrants to the United States)
Old Vic, London, 1970–71 The Sea, Royal Court, London, 1973–74 The Waltz of the Toreadors Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 1974 Ardèle, Queen's Theatre...
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Diana Van der Vlis (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
Shot in the Dark, On an Open Road and The Waltz of the Toreadors. Diana can be seen in the movies X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), The Incident...
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in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Napoleon in The Adventures of Gerard (1970), Cotton Weinberger in The Two...
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Joe Masteroff (category American people of Russian-Jewish descent)
wrote the book and lyrics for the musicals Six Wives (Off-Broadway, 1992) and Paramour, the latter based on Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors (Old...
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interest in the Hammer Film Productions' The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). She appeared in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) with Peter Sellers, and in the first...
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Melvyn Douglas (category American people of English descent)
Inherit the Wind (1955) as Henry Drummond (replacement) The Waltz of the Toreadors (1958) as General St. Pé Juno (1959) as "Captain" Jack Boyle The Gang's...
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Harold Clurman (category The Nation (U.S. magazine) people)
(1958) - director The Waltz of the Toreadors (1958) (revival) - director A Touch of the Poet (1958) - director The Cold Wind And The Warm (1958) - director...
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Meriel Forbes (category Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
Separate Tables and The Sleeping Prince. Forbes and Richardson appeared on Broadway in Jean Anouilh's The Waltz of the Toreadors (1957). During Richardson's...
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