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    Sir Lewis Thomas Casson MC (26 October 1875 – 16 May 1969) was an English actor and theatre director, and the husband of actress Dame Sybil Thorndike...
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    the West End, often appearing with her husband, the actor and director Lewis Casson. She joined the Old Vic company during the First World War, and in the...
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  • for education. He was the nephew of the actor Lewis Casson and his wife the actress Sybil Thorndike. Casson was educated at Eastbourne College in East Sussex...
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    Ann Casson (6 November 1915 – 2 May 1990) was an English stage and film actress. She was a daughter of acting couple Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike...
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  • Stanley Holloway, Mona Washbourne, Ernest Thesiger, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lewis Casson, Cyril Ritchard and Dandy Nichols. Neil North, who plays the title role...
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  • Kingdom. Mary Casson was born on 22 May 1914 in the British capital of London. She was the daughter of the actor and director Lewis Casson and the actress...
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    Douglas Campbell and Ann Casson, and he is the brother of Dirk Campbell. Campbell's maternal grandparents are Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike...
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    2015. Simkin, John. "Lewis Casson". Spartacus Educational Publishers Ltd. Retrieved 15 October 2015. "Latest news of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike"...
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  • Prestwich, Lancashire, the youngest son of actors Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson. He made his stage debut at age three in Julius Caesar at the Old Vic...
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  • singer-songwriter Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Casson (1875–1969), English...
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    companies before being taken on in 1925 by Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Lewis Casson, as a bit-part player, understudy and assistant stage manager for their...
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    Chekov, opened 16 July. Among the actors in the opening season were: Lewis Casson, Fay Compton, Joan Greenwood, Rosemary Harris, Kathleen Harrison, Keith...
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    with London's Grand Guignol, a Comedy Theatre production directed by Lewis Casson. From 24 January 1926, he portrayed Mr Mingan in Allan Monkhouse's play...
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  • and art historian Lewis Casson (1875–1969), British actor, father of Ann Lionel Casson (1914–2009), American classicist Margaret Casson (1913–1999), British...
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    Thorndike (the daughter of a friend of Olivier's father) and her husband Lewis Casson as a bit-part player, understudy and assistant stage manager for their...
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    première, which opened on 26 March 1924 at the New Theatre, was produced by Lewis Casson and starred Shaw's friend Sybil Thorndike, the actress for whom he had...
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  • and Rothwell were the future actors Rupert Davies and John Casson, the son of Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike. All five remained very close friends after...
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    1926 Old Vic Theatre, Baliol Holloway as Henry 1928 Lyric, Hammersmith, Lewis Casson as Henry (Old Vic Company) 1931 Old Vic Theatre, Ralph Richardson as...
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    Gracie Fields appeared here in Walk This Way. In 1933, the theatre hosted Lewis Casson in George Bernard Shaw's On the Rocks, followed in 1935 by Love on the...
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    Happiest Days of Your Life in 1948, followed by Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in Treasure Hunt, directed by John Gielgud in 1949. After this, Seagulls...
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    Linden Tree with Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike played 400 performances. 1948 – Angela Baddeley in a revival of Eden End. 1949 – Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike...
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    Repertory Theater directed by Michael Halberstam. Violet M. Broad & C. Lewis Broad, Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw, A. & C. Black...
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    the Phoenix Theatre in London. She played alongside theatre actors Sir Lewis Casson, Ronald Adam, and George Woodbridge, who played Judge Vlora, Judge Tsankov...
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  • Have Been Here Before is a play by J. B. Priestley, first produced by Lewis Casson at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 22 September 1937. At a rural inn...
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    wife toured Australia together with Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Lewis Casson, playing Terence Rattigan's plays The Sleeping Prince and Separate Tables...
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  • Organ Company (also known as Casson's Patent Organ Co Ltd and Positive Organ Company (1922) Ltd but often referred to as Casson Positive) was an English pipe...
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    performed in 1922 by the Grand Guignol theatre company, directed by Lewis Casson. It was thought to be lost until the original script was found in the...
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    annotations at Representative Poetry Online. A reading of "Ulysses" by Sir Lewis Casson (1875–1969). Landow, George P. "Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses"". The Victorian...
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  • their original stage roles. In 1955, together with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, the Richardsons undertook a long tour of Australia, in Terence Rattigan's...
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    (1924), Henry VIII (with Lewis Casson and Thorndike) at the Empire Theatre (1925) and Macbeth (with Henry Ainley, Thorndyke and Casson) at the Princes Theatre...
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