Frith Banbury
Frith Banbury | |
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| Born | Frederick Harold Frith Banbury 4 May 1912 |
| Died | 14 May 2008 (aged 96) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Stage director |
| Years active | 1933–2000 |
Frederick Harold Frith Banbury MBE (4 May 1912 – 14 May 2008) was a British theatre actor and director.[1]
Banbury was born in
While attending
Banbury died on 14 May 2008, at the age of 96.[3][5]
Theatrical career
Banbury made his first stage appearance on 15 June 1933, playing a walk-on part in If I Were You at the Shaftesbury Theatre. He continued to act through the 1930s and 40s, appearing at such venues as the Ambassadors Theatre, the Little Theatre, the Gate Theatre, the Apollo Theatre, and the Q Theatre.[2]
After World War II, Banbury was invited back to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to direct. He made his professional directing breakthrough by directing Dark Summer, a play written by fellow pacifist Wynyard Browne. Other early successes for Banbury included The Holly and the Ivy, Waters of the Moon, and The Deep Blue Sea.[3]
The latter was one of three plays which Banbury directed on
Archive
The papers of Frith Banbury were purchased by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1990s as part of their extensive holdings of contemporary British theatre. The collection opened to the public in 1996. The archive consists of over sixty boxes of scripts, correspondence, posters, programs, photographs, publicity clippings and scrapbooks, reviews, and financial records pertaining to his career from 1926-1995.[7] The Ransom Center also holds a collection of material relating to the 1952 American production of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, which was directed by Banbury.[8]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1938 | Goodness, How Sad | Peter Thropp | TV film |
| 1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Baby-Face Fitzroy | |
| 1948 | Bond Street | Dress Designer | Uncredited |
| 1949 | The History of Mr. Polly | Gold-Spectacled Young Man | Uncredited |
| The Huggetts Abroad | French Doctor |
References
- ^ "Frith Banbury profile". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ ISSN 0083-9833.
- ^ a b c d Billington, Michael (16 May 2008). "Frith Banbury". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ^ "Hertford College Magazine No.88" (PDF). Hertford College. 2008. p. 76. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Frith Banbury, Director whose 1950s reign at the Haymarket Theatre championed writers such as Robert Bolt and Rodney Ackland". The Times. London. 16 May 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
- ^ Frith Banbury at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ "Frederick Harold Frith Banbury: A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center". norman.hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
- ^ The Ransom Center, norman.hrc.utexas.edu. Accessed 19 November 2022.
External links
- Frith Banbury Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
- Frith Banbury at IMDb
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