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Alan Webb (2 July 1906 - 22 June 1982) was an English stage and film actor.
Educated at Bramcote School, Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire and RN Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Navy.
Webb's early days were spent performing with the Lena Ashwell Players (1924–26), J.B. Fagan's Oxford Players (1926–28), the Croydon Repertory Company (1932–33) and the Old Vic-Sadler's Wells Company (1934–35). In 1936 he starred in Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 and directed Coward's Peace In Our Time in 1947. In 1960 he appeared in Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros, directed by... MORE
Alan Webb (2 July 1906 - 22 June 1982) was an English stage and film actor.
Educated at Bramcote School, Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire and RN Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Navy.
Webb's early days were spent performing with the Lena Ashwell Players (1924–26), J.B. Fagan's Oxford Players (1926–28), the Croydon Repertory Company (1932–33) and the Old Vic-Sadler's Wells Company (1934–35). In 1936 he starred in Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 and directed Coward's Peace In Our Time in 1947. In 1960 he appeared in Eugène Ionesco's Rhinoceros, directed by Orson Welles, at the Royal Court Theatre in the role of "Dudard".
He appeared in many plays on Broadway, starting with the aforementioned Tonight at 8:30 in 1936 through his final production, I Never Sang for My Father in 1968, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
He made his film debut in Challenge to Lassie (1949), and went onto appear in such films as The Pumpkin Eater (1964), King Rat (1965); Chimes at Midnight (1965), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) and The Duellists (1977).
He appeared several times on the BBC Play LESS
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