Robert My Father - Hardcover

Morley, Sheridan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297813293 ISBN 13: 9780297813293

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Memoir of much-loved actor by his son.

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About the Author:

Sheridan Morley(1941-2007) was the third generation of a celebrated theatrical family. His father was Robert Morley, the character actor, and his grandmother was Gladys Cooper, in her youth one of the great beauties of her day and a much sought-after actor in Britain and Hollywood. Sheridan was also a cousin of the actress and presenter Joanna Lumley and brother-in-law of the actor Robert Hardy. Morley joined The Times as deputy features editor in 1973, and then Punch in 1975 as drama critic and arts editor, remaining with the magazine until 1989. In the late 1980s, he became a regular arts diarist for The Times and was its TV critic from 1989 to 1990. He worked as drama critic for the Spectator from 1990 to 2001, and after a short period at the New Statesman, he joined the Daily Express in 2004. He married his first wife, Margaret Gudejko, in 1965, and they had three children together. He married his second wife, Ruth Leon, in 1995. He authored a number of books including A Talent to Amuse: A Life of Noel Coward (1969); Gladys Cooper (1979); The Hollywood Raj (1983), The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven (1985), Odd Man Out: James Mason (1989) and Robert: My Father (1993). These are now all republished by Dean Street Press.

From Publishers Weekly:

Actor, director and writer Robert Morley (1908-1992) lived an exciting, colorful life, and his son has captured its essence in this loving biography. Morley decided to become an actor after seeing Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He gained fame by playing the notorious title role in the brothers Leslie and Sewell Stokes's Oscar Wilde on the London stage and soon came to the attention of Hollywood. He was nominated for an Oscar for his first American film, Marie Antoinette. Married in 1940 (to Joan, daughter of Gladys Cooper), Morley spent most of the war years on the London stage. After the armistice he went on to perform in such films as Major Barbara, The African Queen, Beat the Devil and Around the World in Eighty Days (he appeared in 84 films in all). He also published 11 books and wrote, or coauthored, 10 plays. Later in life he would become well known as the advertising voice of British Airways. The book also contains many anecdotes about his fellow actors, including Rex Harrison, Peter Bull, Humphrey Bogart and John Huston. A fine theatrical biography. Photo
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About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0297813293
• ISBN 13: 9780297813293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240