Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson, CH, DBE (24 October 1882 – 9 June 1976) was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969. Trained...
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English actor and theatre director, and the husband of actress Dame Sybil Thorndike. Lewis Casson was born at 18 Alfred Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire, the...
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son of Robert L. Thorndike Russell Thorndike (1885–1972), a British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), a British...
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Romney Marsh novels. Less well-known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile, Russell Thorndike's first love was writing and, after serving in World...
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DBE (1857–1941), British suffragette, feminist, and philanthropist Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), English actress who toured internationally in Shakespearean...
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Marina Laurence Olivier as Charles, the Prince Regent of Carpathia Sybil Thorndike as the Dowager Queen Richard Wattis as Northbrook Jeremy Spenser as...
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actress. She was a daughter of acting couple Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike and had three siblings: John, Christopher and Mary. She was married...
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Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and...
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Campbell. Campbell's maternal grandparents are Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike. While working in England, Campbell met Jackie Maxwell, who was working...
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comedy-drama film in CinemaScope directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Sybil Thorndike and Chips Rafferty. It is the sequel to the 1956 film Smiley. A young...
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New Theatre, was produced by Lewis Casson and starred Shaw's friend Sybil Thorndike, the actress for whom he had written the part. Costumes and sets were...
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starred Sybil Thorndike as Esmeralda and Booth Conway as the hunchback. The film is considered lost, but extant still photos show a 40-year-old Thorndike who...
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directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. Set in Victorian London, it tells...
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under the direction of Jose Levy, where it attracted the talents of Sybil Thorndike, Noël Coward, and Richard Hughes (whose one-act play The Sisters' Tragedy...
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a 1959 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway, with Richard...
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including Arms and the Man with Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and Margaret Leighton in the leading roles. Two touring companies took...
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7 September 1960. It was directed by Margaret Webster and starred Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Marie Lohr and Graham Payn. Binkie Beaumont, who usually...
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Paula reads them for her. The crew and the other actors, including Sybil Thorndike, are in awe of Marilyn. Colin meets Lucy, a wardrobe assistant to whom...
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such notable actors to perform them as John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, and Ingrid Bergman...
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premiered in London at the Duchess Theatre in September 1938; with Sybil Thorndike as Miss Moffat and Williams himself portraying Morgan Evans, the West...
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(1796–1861) was born in Rochester. Dame Sybil Thorndike and Russell Thorndike The actress Dame Sybil Thorndike and her brother Russell were brought up...
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commemorated by a blue plaque placed by English Heritage in 2015. The actress Sybil Thorndike and her husband, the actor and director Lewis Casson, lived there for...
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1928 British silent war film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, Gordon Craig, and Marie Ault. It was produced by Wilcox for his British...
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"Anybody's" 1976 Angels Miss Hombro Episode: "Facade" 1977 The Velvet Glove Sybil Thorndike Episode: "Auntie's Niece" 1977 Just William Vicar's Wife Episode: "William...
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starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, Dench played actress Sybil Thorndike. The film garnered largely positive reviews, and earned Dench a Best...
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It was her final play and was written as a vehicle for her friend Sybil Thorndike who played a famous stage actress celebrating fifty years on the stage...
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Stranger Tides Society Lady Rob Marshall Cameo My Week with Marilyn Sybil Thorndike Simon Curtis Friend Request Pending Mary Chris Foggin Short J. Edgar...
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Michael Redgrave as Ivan Petrovich ("Uncle Vanya") Voynitsky Dame Sybil Thorndike as Marina Timofeevna Harold Hobson of the Sunday Times described the...
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professional stage debut in a revival of Dryden's Aureng-zebe with Sybil Thorndike. He then joined the Old Vic Company and appeared in Shakespearean roles...
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as Brutus impressed an audience that included Lady Tree, the young Sybil Thorndike and Ellen Terry, who wrote in her diary, "The small boy who played...
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