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Post by Polly1 on Feb 8, 2019 14:10:08 GMT
Very sad news. Only saw him on stage once in Art. He certainly was one of the greats.
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Post by maggiem on Feb 8, 2019 14:37:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 14:55:22 GMT
Oh no, Daddy Warbucks. How sad, I RIP. ❤️
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Post by emsworthian on Feb 8, 2019 15:06:19 GMT
Oh, no. I saw him as Tamburlaine at the National many years ago. Also, saw him talk about the history of Chichester theatre and his various performances there in a panel discussion a few years back.
He had a house near me and I did the embarrassing thing once of spotting a face in the street that looked familiar and waved at him before realising who it was and I had to dash into a shop until he had gone past.
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Post by learfan on Feb 8, 2019 16:19:01 GMT
Great actor. Would surely have been a great Lear. RIP.
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Post by tonyloco on Feb 9, 2019 13:26:05 GMT
My early diary notes tell me that I saw Albert Finney in Billy Liar at the Cambridge in 1960 and then John Osborne's Luther at the Royal Court in 1961 before he became a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company when it started at the Old Vic in 1963.
On stage he was highly charismatic and made a strong impression in every role he played. One of the greats. RIP
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Post by harrietcraig on Feb 9, 2019 19:40:44 GMT
He appeared in only two Broadway productions, so I consider myself lucky to have seen one of them: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, in 1968. (Luther was the other one, in 1963-64.) I was 17 at the time, and I think most of the play went over my head, but I had had a tremendous crush on him ever since seeing Tom Jones, so there was no way I was going to pass up a chance to see him live.
BTW, I just looked up that production of Joe Egg, and I see that Joan Hickson was in the cast. Very cool -- I had no idea I had ever seen her onstage!
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Post by hal9000 on Feb 9, 2019 21:49:55 GMT
I had a massive crush on him when my all girls Catholic school watched Tom Jones when we were reading the novel. Lots of giggling and sighing over his handsome self.
My favourite performances are Shoot The Moon and Under The Volcano.
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