- A Shakespearian actor who performed across Europe and America.
- Wounded in World War l, he spent eighteen months in hospital before returning to the stage. He had been performing in Berlin when the war broke out.
- Taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
- His wife, Winifred Durie was also a student of Sir Francis Robert Benson.
- In 1905 he made his first stage appearance in Manchester as a young Bensonian Shakespearian player. In 1924 he made his American stage debut as a member of Henry Jewett's repertory troop in Boston.
- In 1933 created the role of Oscar Jaffe in the play Twentieth Century. The play was later turned into a movie by Columbia pictures directed by Howard Hawks starring John Barrymore as Oscar Jaffe.
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