Person    | Male  Born 29/5/1885  Died 4/5/1959

Ashley Dukes

Categories: Theatre

Playwright, critic and theatre manager. Founded the Mercury Theatre. Husband of Dame Marie Rambert.

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Ashley Dukes

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Mercury Theatre

Here stood the Mercury Theatre, 1931 - 1987, founded by author and playwright...

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Royal Coburg Theatre / Royal Victoria Theatre / Old Vic

Royal Coburg Theatre / Royal Victoria Theatre / Old Vic

This theatre designed by the German architect Rudolphe Cabanel, began life in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre under the patronage of Princess Charlotte of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of C...

Group, Theatre

7 memorials
Frank Matcham

Frank Matcham

Theatre architect. Born Newton Abbot, Devon. Never qualified as an architect but designed at least 80 theatres and did some work on about the same number again. About 24 of his theatres survive rea...

Person, Architecture, Theatre

9 memorials
Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Actor. Born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe. His career started in repertory theatre and television, eventually getting his big break in the film 'Zulu'. He went on t...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio

2 memorials
Astley's Amphitheatre

Astley's Amphitheatre

Considered to be the world's first circus ring. Erected in 1769 on the site of what is now St Thomas's Hospital on the south side of Westminster Bridge Road. The showman Philip Astley, (from Britis...

Building, Theatre

2 memorials
Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson

Film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting Life', ‘If', ‘The Whales of August', awarded the 1955 Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Born India, died France.

Person, Cinema, Theatre, France, India

1 memorial