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person_profile-Noël Coward

Noël Coward Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Noël Coward

Date of Birth:

Dec 15, 1899

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Mar 26, 1973

Biography of

Noël Coward

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

    Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works.

    At the outbreak of World War II, Coward volunteered for war work, running the British propaganda office in Paris. He also worked with the Secret Service, seeking to use his influence to persuade the American public and government to help Britain. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama, In Which We Serve, and was knighted in 1969. In the 1950s he achieved fresh success as a cabaret performer, performing his own songs, such as "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "London Pride" and "I Went to a Marvellous Party".

    His plays and songs achieved new popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, and his work and style continue to influence popular culture. Coward did not publicly acknowledge his homosexuality, but it was discussed candidly after his death by biographers including Graham Payn, his long-time partner, and in Coward's diaries and letters, published posthumously. The former Albery Theatre (originally the New Theatre) in London was renamed the Noël Coward Theatre in his honour in 2006.

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Filmography of

Noël Coward

Found 19 Movies in total

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

actor 'Bunny Lake Is Missing' (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1991

Ken Russell's ABC of British Music

Self (archive) ( Actor )

... 1988

The Italian Job

Mr. Bridger ( Actor )

... 1969

Boom!

The Witch of Capri ( Actor )

... 1968

Androcles and the Lion

Caesar ( Actor )

... 1967

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Horatio Wilson ( Actor )

... 1965

Paris When It Sizzles

Alexander Meyerheim ( Actor )

... 1964

Surprise Package

King Pavel II ( Actor )

... 1960

Our Man in Havana

Hawthorne ( Actor )

... 1960

Around the World in Eighty Days

Roland Hesketh-Baggott ( Actor )

... 1956

Blithe Spirit

Charles Condomine ( Actor )

Theatre Play

... 1956

The Astonished Heart

Dr. Christian Faber ( Actor )

Writer

... 1950

Brief Encounter

Train Station Announcer (uncredited) ( Actor )

Theatre Play

... 1945

Blithe Spirit

Narrator (uncredited) ( Actor )

Theatre Play

... 1945

In Which We Serve

Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. / Captain 'D' ( Actor )

Writer

... 1942

Men Are Not Gods

Passer-by (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

The Scoundrel

Anthony Mallare ( Actor )

... 1935

Hearts of the World

The Man with the Wheelbarrow / A Villager in the Streets ( Actor )

... 1918