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Richard Findlater (1921–1985)

Author of At the Royal Court : 25 years of the English Stage Company

23 Works 77 Members 1 Review

Works by Richard Findlater

At the Royal Court : 25 years of the English Stage Company (1981) 17 copies

Author! Author! (1984) 8 copies

These Our Actors: A Celebration of the Theatre Acting of Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ralph… (1983) 5 copies

The player kings (1971) 5 copies

The Player Queens (1976) 5 copies

Lilian Baylis: The lady of the Old Vic (1975) 4 copies

Banned : a review of theatrical censorship in Britain (1968) 4 copies

The Complete guide to Britain's National Theatre (1977) 4 copies

Little Tich: Giant of the Music Hall (1979) 4 copies

Comic cuts: a bedside sampler of censorship in action (1970) 3 copies

Grimaldi: King of Clowns (1955) 2 copies

Public Lending Rights (1971) 2 copies

The unholy trade (1953) 2 copies

Emlyn Williams (1956) 2 copies

Michael Redgrave, actor (1956) 2 copies

Book writers: Who are they? (1966) 1 copy

Six Great Actors (David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean, W. C. Macready, Sir Henry Irving & Sir Johnson… 1 copy

20th Century, Vol. 172, Spring 1963, No. 1017: The Enemies 1 copy

20th Century Winter 1964/65 : Violence (1965) 1 copy

Twentieth Century - Rebuilding Britain, Summer 1962 1 copy

Banned! (1967) 1 copy

Six great actors : David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean, W. C. Macready, Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnston… 1 copy

Grimaldi King of Clowns 1 copy

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Legal name: Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain
Other names: Findlater, Richard
Birthdate: 1921-12-23
Date of death: 1985
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Relationships: Bain, Roly (son)
Bain, Romany (ex-wife)

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Little Tich - Giant of the Music Hall by Mary Tich

This is a cracking biography of one of the early British comedians. The authors are honest enough to admit when an area of Harry Relph's (Little Tich) life is obscure; and there are some odd things about his life!
The book is eminently readable: if I were to have a criticism, it would be in the way that it contains chunks of Tich's songs. This is fine for anyone who knows the work but, has little resonance wit the more ignorant amongst us (ME!!).
If you don't know from whence the term 'tich' for a small person comes, then read this book to find out.… (more)

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Works: 23
Members: 77
Popularity: #231,246
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 21

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