Life
1903-1982 [Hilton Robert Edwards]; b. London, ed. Finchley Grammar School,
and St Aloysius School, Highgate; joined Doran’s Shakespearean Co.
in 1920, and toured Ireland for two years; joined Old Vic.; toured Ireland
with Anew McMaster, introduced to Micheál MacLiammóir in 1927; fnd. Gate
Theatre with MacLiammóir, his life partner, opening with Peer Gynt
in Abbey St., 19 Oct 1928; produced more than three hundred plays; directed
Shaw’s Heartbreak House at the Gate, 1971, also taking the
role of Captain Shotover; his film appearances include Return to Glenascaul,
From Time to Time, and Hamlet at Elsinore; appeared in Orson
Welles’s prod. of Othello and Bryan Forbes’s The Wrong
Box; Head of Drama RTÉ, 1961-63; produced and played the title
role in Conor Cruise O’Brien’s Herod, performed in the
Green Room of the Gate, 1973. DIB DIH FDA
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)