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William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998) was an English physician, Olympic rowing champion and gold medallist. He was the father of actor Hugh Laurie.
THE OARSMAN Ran Laurie won a gold medal in the 1948 Olympics, with his colleague in the Sudan Political Service Jack Wilson. The coxless pair's achievement was the more remarkable in that they...
Laurie, the son of medical doctor Ran Laurie, said he felt guilty for "being paid more to become a fake version of [his] own father". From the start of season three, he was being paid $275,000 to $300,000 per episode, as much as three times what he had previously been making on the series.
Ran Laurie, who was educated at Monkton Combe and Selwyn College, Cambridge, established a fine reputation as stroke when he was an undergraduate. He was in the winning Cambridge eight for three successive years and in the last tow years, 1935 and 1936, he was the stroke.
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Sep 27, 2013 · In the British boat, Ran Laurie dug furiously at the water. He was still relatively fresh. He wanted to do more. But like many British strokes in those days, he was wielding an oar with a smaller, narrower blade than the rest of his crew – the idea being that the stroke’s job was to set the pace, not to power the boat.
Jan 23, 2024 · Ran Laurie. A Cambridgeshire-born talent, Ran Laurie began rowing at the Somerset-based public school Monkton Combe School. He continued his rowing career as a student at Cambridge, before pursuing it in the Olympics. Though he did not win any medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, Laurie was there with Clooney's ‘Boys in the Boat’.
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Apr 27, 2022 · William George Ranald Mundell Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998), known as Ran Laurie, was a British physician, rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist. His younger son is the actor and writer Hugh Laurie.
