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Lionel George Logue CVO (26 February 1880 – 12 April 1953) was an Australian speech and language therapist and amateur stage actor who helped King George VI manage his stammer. Early life and family
The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy (2010) is a non-fiction, biographical book written by Peter Conradi and Mark Logue. Logue's grandfather, Lionel Logue, was a speech and language therapist who helped Prince Albert, Duke of York, (later George VI) manage his difficulties in public speaking with a severe stutter.
The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush.
The story of how King George VI overcame his fear of public speaking through the help of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue was first researched by David Seidler in the 1970s. He had originally conceived the piece as a stage play, and contacted Valentine Logue , Lionel's son, and was able to gather information about the story.
Lionel Logue, CVO (1880–1953), speech therapist who successfully treated King George VI's stammer; Major-General Sir Newton Moore KCMG (1870–1936), eighth Premier of Western Australia, World War I general, member of the UK House of Commons; Sir Geoffrey Reed (1892–1970), judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia, first Director ...
The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper, from a script by David Seidler.The film stars Colin Firth as George (both Duke of York and later king), Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Queen Elizabeth, and Geoffrey Rush as the speech therapist Lionel Logue. [1]
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Logue was born on 1 November 1913 in Perth, Western Australia. [1] He was the second of three sons born to Myrtle ( née Gruenert ) and Lionel Logue . The family moved to London in 1924, where his father was a pioneering speech therapist known for his work with King George VI .