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词条 Richard Waring
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Personal life

  3. Death

  4. Broadway theatre credits

  5. Radio credits

  6. Television credits

  7. Hollywood credits

  8. Records

  9. References

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| name = Richard Waring
| image = RichardWaring.jpg
| birth_name = Richard Waring Stephens
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|05|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|01|18|1911|05|27|df=y}}
| death_place = City Island, Bronx, New York, U.S.
| resting_place = Crownhill Crematorium & Cemetery
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1930–1968
| spouse = {{marriage|Florida Friebus|1934|1988|end=her death}}
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Richard Waring (born Richard Waring Stephens; 27 May 1911 – 18 January 1993) was an English-American actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his role in the film Mr. Skeffington (1944).

Biography

Richard Waring was born Richard Stephens in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire in 1911, the son of Thomas E. Stephens, a painter, whose portrait of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents. He later adopted Waring, his mother's (Evelyn M. Stephens) maiden name, as his stage name. Waring was the brother of Peter John Stephens, a playwright and author.

Waring began his career in 1931 with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater in New York City in minor roles in Romeo and Juliet, Camille, and Cradle Song. In 1940, he played opposite Ethel Barrymore in The Corn is Green and later with Eva Le Gallienne and was signed to play the role in Hollywood opposite Bette Davis, but entered the army during World War II. Before that he was filmed in his best-known screen role in Mr. Skeffington (1944) as Fanny Trellis' brother Trippy.

After his war service he appeared on Broadway as the Duke of Buckingham in Henry VIII, John Shand in J.M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows and as the Captain in George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion. He also appeared in many performances of the American Shakespeare Festival directed by John Houseman and at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, playing both bit roles and major parts in many of Shakespeare's plays. He acted with Katharine Hepburn in The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and one performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon before she had to leave the production.{{When|date=July 2015}}

Personal life

Waring married American actress Florida Friebus in 1934. They had one child who died in infancy. The couple divorced in 1952. Waring and his second wife Kathy had no children.{{cn|date=July 2015}} He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1937, adopting the legal name, Richard Waring.[1][2]

Death

Waring died of a heart attack on 18 January 1993 in City Island, Bronx, New York.{{cn|date=April 2018}}

Broadway theatre credits

  • Dear Jane (1932)
  • L'Aiglon (1934)
  • The Women Have Their Way (1935)
  • Camille (1935)
  • The Corn Is Green (1940)
  • At the Stroke of Eight (1940)
  • The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1940; revived the character of John Wilkes Booth in Edwin Booth in 1958)
  • Alice in Wonderland (1947)
  • A Pound on Demand (1947)
  • Androcles and the Lion (1947)
  • What Every Woman Knows (1947)
  • King Henry VIII (1947)
  • Gramercy Ghost (1951)
  • Portrait of a Queen (1968)

Radio credits

  • Elizabeth the Queen (1952)
  • Second Husband (in the role of Grant Cummings){{When|date=July 2015}}
  • Brothers in Law in the role of Henry Blagrove (1970)

Television credits

  • Studio One {{When|date=July 2015}}
  • Wuthering Heights (1948)
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame: MacDuff in Macbeth (1954) with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson
  • Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 3 Episode: 31 Festive Season (1958)
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame: Bertrand in Eagle in a Cage with Trevor Howard as Napoleon (1965)

Hollywood credits

Year Title Role Notes
1935 The Perfect Gentleman John Chatteris
1944 Mr. Skeffington Trippy Trellis

Records

  • Scenes from Romeo and Juliet with Eva Le Gallienne (Atlantic Records, 1951; two-record set)
  • Poems of Rupert Brooke (Folkways Records, Smithsonian Collection){{When|date=July 2015}}

References

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