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Kean's Shylock established his reputation as an actor. [7] Since Kean's time, many other actors who have played the role have chosen a sympathetic approach to the character. Edwin Booth was a notable exception, playing him as a simple villain, although his father Junius Brutus Booth had portrayed the character sympathetically.
Charles Macklin (26 September 1699 – 11 July 1797), (Gaelic: Cathal MacLochlainn, English: Charles McLaughlin), was an Irish actor and dramatist who performed extensively at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Charles Macklin as Shylock is a c.1768 oil painting by the German-born British artist Johan Zoffany. [ 1 ] A conversation piece , it features a group portrait painting of actors performing the courtroom scene in William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice .
He has specialised in Shakespearean theatre where roles have included Romeo, Richard III, Oberon, Macbeth, Shylock and Prospero. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company he worked in Stratford and London and has performed in the West End in plays by Noël Coward, Tom Stoppard, Agatha Christie and most recently in Yes, Prime Minister (2013 ...
An early screen role for Barrit came in Alice through the Looking Glass (1998), in which he played Humpty Dumpty.. In 2003, he played Shylock in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while in 2007 he appeared in The History Boys at Wyndham's Theatre portraying the general studies teacher, Hector, made famous by Richard Griffiths in the film version.
Geoffrey Streatfeild (born 1975) is an English actor in film, television, stage and radio. ... Shylock; Success Story, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, 6 March 2009;
He joined the company as an actor later in the year, playing Shylock, Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Saturnius in Titus Andronicus and the title role in Richard III. [35] During 1957 Helpmann played the title role in Jean-Paul Sartre's Nekrassov, [46] and then took over the lead part of Sebastien in Coward's comedy Nude with Violin in ...
John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles. Early life [ edit ]