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Peter Glenville (born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne; 28 October 1913 – 3 June 1996) was an English theatre and film director, and actor. He was a prominent director of stage plays on the West End and Broadway in the 1950s. He was nominated for four Tony Awards for his American plays.
Peter Glenville, early theatre – acting in the OUDS stage production as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Family A family born to the stage. If acting talent is indeed inborn, Peter Glenville was born for a life of success on stage and screen. His parents, Shaun Glenville and Dorothy Ward, were Britain’s “most celebrated and successful pantomime artists [who] came to fame in the days before television and radio; even silent movies were in their infancy.
He became a director at the Old Vic Theatre in 1944 and worked with some of the leading playwrights of the period including Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, Terence Rattigan and Graham Greene. In 1949 he took Rattigan's The Browning Version to Broadway and later went on to direct the writer's Separate Tables, which starred Eric Portman and ...
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Jun 5, 1996 · Peter Glenville, a director who won accolades for his staging of plays in the West End of London as well as on Broadway, died on Monday at a friend's home in Manhattan, while on a visit from...
Nearly 70 years later, The Peter Glenville Foundation is supporting the building and endowment campaign to help preserve the future of The Old Vic Theatre that Peter so dearly loved. Many of the actors that Peter directed came out of the world-famous theatre, including John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Peter O’Toole and Richard ...
