Harry Andrews
Harry Fleetwood Andrews ( born November 10, 1911 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; † March 6, 1989 in Salehurst, Sussex, England ) was a British film and stage actor.
Life
Harry Andrews, a graduate of the Wrekin College in Shropshire, began his work in the thirties as a Shakespearean actor in a Liverpool theater. Through his good friend John Gielgud, he finally reached the realm to Broadway to play theater there.
On his return to London Andrews stood both in the West End and at the Old Vic Theatre on stage. His repertoire included mostly authoritarian roles. He was identified by the theater critic Kenneth Tynan as the "backbone of the British theater ." 1939 Andrews was the first time in front of a movie camera, first in the Independent Film Circumstantial Evidence. It should then take 13 years until he again received in 1952 the opportunity to embody a roll of film. In the meantime, the theater remained his greatest passion and predominant source of income. In 1952 Andrews worked with in some still very well-known films, from the late seventies he was increasingly seen in television roles.
Among his personal friends included Trevor Howard, Jack Gwillim and Basil Hoskins. Andrews died in 1989 at the age of 77 years after a viral infection in conjunction with an existing asthma.