Jerome Kilty

Jerome Kilty (* June 24, 1922 in Baltimore, Maryland; † 6 September 2012 in Norwalk, Connecticut ) was an American actor and writer, best known for its dramatizations of exchanges of letters. His most famous work was Dear Liar, the adaptation of the 40-year correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, a London actress.

Life

Kilty grew up as the son of a government inspector on the Navajo Nation Reservation. As a soldier of the American army in London he visited the aged George Bernard Shaw during the war and was well received. The famous author Kilty impressed so much that this was formed in the sequel to the Shaw - experts. After the war Kilty visited with a state scholarship to the GI Bill, Harvard University. He was involved in the founding of the Brattle Theatre Company in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) in 1948. As an actor he appeared among others in seven Broadway productions. Kilty portrayed numerous roles in plays Shaw. He died due to cardiac arrest in the wake of a car accident.

Work

Dear Liar, the result of extensive research Kiltys, was founded in 1960 on Broadway, with Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne as protagonists. That Zweipersonentück proved especially ideal for smaller stages and for the touring theater. Kilty and his wife Cavada Humphrey presented there including France, Italy, Germany and Schweden.Vienna 's English Theatre opened with a Erfolgsprodukton of Dear Liar.

Kilty designed in the sequence two more pieces Two persons on the basis of love correspondence: Dear Love, based on the correspondence between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Dear Life, Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper on.