Max Adrian (1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.In addition to his success as a character actor in classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably Ken Russell's Song of Summer as the ailing composer Delius. His voice and acting style were distinctive: The Times referred to his "Osric-like elaborations of manner", and his voice "like no other heard on the English stage of his day, vestigially Irish and harshly attractive."
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, UK (now Northern Ireland, UK)
Height
5' 7" (1.7 m)
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack
Parents
Edward Norman Cavendish Bor, Mabel Lloyd Thornton
Albums
Candide (1956 original Broadway cast)
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Fact
1
He received a three-month jail sentence in 1943 for a homosexual offense. Many felt the sentence unjust, and it did not seem to have too adverse an effect upon his acting career.
2
Although he was 41 when he appeared in Henry V (1944), his character Louis, Dauphin of France was only 18 years old when he died on December 18, 1415.
3
His lifelong partner was Laurier Lister.
4
Died from a heart attack at his home, Smarkham Orchard, Shamley Green, near Guildford, Surrey, after returning from the television studios where he had been recording Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" for the BBC.
5
Performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Music Lovers
1970
Nicholas Rubinstein
W. Somerset Maugham
1970
TV Series
Ferdy Rabenstein
Up Pompeii!
1969-1970
TV Series
Sen. Ludicrus Sextus
The First Night of 'Pygmalion'
1969
TV Movie
Bernard Shaw
Comedy Playhouse
1969
TV Series
Ludicrus
Omnibus
1968-1969
TV Series documentary
Albert / Frederick Delius
Point Counter Point
1968
TV Mini-Series
John Bidlake
Luther
1968
TV Movie
The Wednesday Play
1967
TV Series
The Abbot
Before the Fringe
1967
TV Series
Uncle Vanya
1967
TV Movie
Wladimirowitch Serebriakow
NET Playhouse
1967
TV Series
Prof. Serebyakov
The Baron
1967
TV Series
The Chosen One
The Terrornauts
1967
Dr. Henry Shore
The Deadly Affair
1967
Adviser (Marlene Dietrich)
Vendetta
1966
TV Series
Thomas Calleia
Adam Adamant Lives!
1966
TV Series
Dr. Klein
The World of Wooster
1966
TV Series
Uncle George
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1966
TV Series
Norris
Take a Sapphire
1966
TV Movie
Dom Juan
Doctor Who
1965
TV Series
King Priam
Famous Gossips
1965
TV Series
Parson Yorick
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
Dr. Blake (segment "Vampire")
Victoria Regina
1964
TV Mini-Series
Benjamin Disraeli
ITV Play of the Week
1956-1964
TV Series
Elie de Coetquidan / Frick / William Goodman
Espionage
1964
TV Series
Dr. Driffield
Midsummer Nightmare
1964
Short
Puck (voice)
Uncle Vanya
1963
Prof. Alexander Serebryakov
As You Like It
1963
TV Movie
Jacques
Oliver Twist
1962
TV Mini-Series
Fagin
Time Remembered
1961/II
TV Movie
Ferdinand
The DuPont Show of the Month
1957-1960
TV Series
Pew
Marquis St. Evremonde
Sir Matthew Sprott
One Step Beyond
1959
TV Series
Marquis Jacques De La Roget
Perry Mason
1959
TV Series
Ralph Jennings
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1959
TV Series
Robert Stone
The Third Man
1959
TV Series
Crary
Playhouse 90
1959
TV Series
Prosecutor
Kraft Theatre
1958
TV Series
Adventures of the Sea Hawk
1958
TV Series
Higgins
Twelfth Night
1957
TV Movie
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Robert Montgomery Presents
1957
TV Series
Camera Three
1957
TV Series
The Narrator
The Pickwick Papers
1952
Aide
Penny Plain
1952
TV Movie
Pool of London
1951
Charlie Vernon - acrobat / George
The Taming of Dorothy
1950
Catoni
Tuppence Coloured
1949
TV Movie
Oranges and Lemons
1949
TV Movie
Charley Junior's Schooldays
1949
Short voice, uncredited
Robinson Charley
1948
Short voice
Henry V
1944
The Dauphin
Talk About Jacqueline
1942
Lionel
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
Richard Sheridan
Courageous Mr. Penn
1942
Elton
Jeannie
1941
The Remarkable Mr. Kipps
1941
Chester Coote
Marco Millions
1939
TV Movie
Count Albany
1938
TV Movie
Merely Mr. Hawkins
1938
Mr. Fletcher
When the Devil Was Well
1937
David
Why Pick on Me?
1937
Jack Mills
Macushla
1937
Kerry Muldoon
Nothing Like Publicity
1936
Bob Wharncliffe
The Happy Family
1936
Noel Hutt
To Catch a Thief
1936
Salesman
A Touch of the Moon
1936
Francis Leverton
The Primrose Path
1934
Julian Leigh
Eight Cylinder Love
1934
Short
The Boy Friend
1971
Max Mandeville aka Mr. Max / Lord Hubert Brockhurst