| Activity | Educated at Westminster; trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Worked under tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other contemporaries of the National Theatre at the 'Old Vic', London. First appearance on stage at Old Vic, 1921. Screen debut in 1924. [For list of stage appearances, film and TV, see 'Who Was Who']. President of Shakespeare Reading Society, 1958-; RADA, 1977-1989 (Hon. Fellow, 1989); Fellow, BAFTA, 1992; Special Award for Services to the Theatre, Laurence Olivier Awards, 1985; Hon. Degree Brandeis University Companion, Legion of Homour, 1960; CH 1977; Kt. 1953; Hon. LLD St Andrews, 1950; Hpn. DLitt Oxon, 1953; Hon. DLitt London, 1977. |