Actor-manager, owner of the Adelphi Theatre.
Born in London as William Charles James Lewin. Terriss was murdered as he entered the theatre at a back door by a disgruntled/deranged former employee/fellow actor, Richard Prince.
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Edmund Kean
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Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 in the Victoria Hotel, 79 Westborough, Scarborough, Yorkshire, one of the five children of Robert Laughton (1868-1924) and Eliza Laughton (1869-1953). On t...
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Bertolt Brecht
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Sean O'Casey
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