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Noel Willman (4 August 1918 – 24 December 1988) was an Irish actor and theatre director. Born in Derry, Ireland, Willman died aged 70 in New York City, United States.[1]

Noel Willman
in The Reptile (1966)
Born	4 August 1918 Derry, Ireland
Died	24 December 1988 (aged 70) New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Theatre director, actor
Years active	1953–1976

Willman's films included The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Across the Bridge (1957), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Reptile (1966), and The Odessa File (1974).[2]

He was also a theatre director and actor, and won a Tony Award in 1962 for his direction of the original Broadway production of Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons.[3] According to Bolt, he was instrumental in many aspects of the play's development, including the casting of Paul Scofield as Thomas More. In 1966 he was nominated in the same category for James Goldman's The Lion in Winter.[4] He later directed Katharine Hepburn and Christopher Reeve in A Matter of Gravity in 1976.[5]

He frequently collaborated with Bolt, directing The Tiger and the Horse and Gentle Jack (and appearing in Zhivago, which Bolt scripted). One of his most famous theatrical roles was opposite Alec Guinness in the stage production of Bridget Boland's The Prisoner, for which he won the Clarence Derwent Award, and which was later made into a film, starring Guinness and Jack Hawkins.[6][7]

Willman studied for the stage at the London Theatre Studio, which had been set up by Michel Saint-Denis and George Devine in 1936. Working as stage manager for John Gielgud's touring production of The Beggar's Opera, he took over the role of Macheath at short notice from Michael Redgrave, who had fallen ill and whose usual understudy had suffered a bout of laryngitis.[8]

During the war he toured with the Old Vic Company, then directed by Tyrone Guthrie, playing in The Merchant of Venice in 1941, and taking part in several productions at the Vic's Liverpool Playhouse base, including Shaw's Androcles and the Lion. Prompted by Guthrie, he became a director. In 1942, he presented his debut production Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill.[9]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1952	The Pickwick Papers	Mr. Perker
1952	Androcles and the Lion	Spintho
1953	The Net	Dr. Dennis Bord
1953	Malta Story	Hobley, Navy Pilot	Uncredited
1954	Beau Brummell	Lord Byron
1955	The Dark Avenger	Du Guesclin
1956	The Man Who Knew Too Much	Woburn
1957	Seven Waves Away	Aubrey Clark
1957	Across the Bridge	Chief of Police
1958	Carve Her Name with Pride	Interrogator
1960	Cone of Silence	Nigel Pickering
1960	Never Let Go	Inspector Thomas
1960	The Criminal	Prison Governor
1961	Two Living, One Dead	Johnson
1961	The Girl on the Boat	Webster
1963	The Kiss of the Vampire	Dr. Ravna
1965	Doctor Zhivago	Razin
1966	The Reptile	Dr. Franklyn
1968	The Vengeance of She	Za-Tor
1974	The Odessa File	Franz Bayer
1976	21 Hours at Munich	Interior Minister Bruno Merk	(final film role)

References

External links

• Noel Willman at IMDb
• Noel Willman at the Internet Broadway Database

На других языках

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[de] Noel Willman

Noel Willman (* 4. August 1918 in Londonderry; † 24. Dezember 1988 in New York City) war ein britischer Schauspieler und Theaterintendant.

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- [en] Noel Willman

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