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Felix Aylmer
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Actor Born: February 21, 1889 in Corsham, Wilts, England Death: September 12, 1979 in Surrey, England, UK Biography:British actor "Felix Aylmer" may not be popularly known in the United States, but his was one of the longest and most prestigious careers in the 20th-century British theatre. Aylmer's first stage work was done with another theatrical giant, Sir "Seymour Hicks", in 1911. Two years later, Aylmer was engaged by the then-new Birmingham Repertory, premiering as Orsino ("If music be the food of love...") in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. After World War I service, Aylmer established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of the works of "George Bernard Shaw"; he also concentrated on the London productions of such American plays as "Abraham Lincoln" and "Robert E. Lee" (no partisanship here!) Aylmer made his Broadway bow in a production of Galsworthy's "Loyalties", periodically returning to the states in such plays as Flashing Stream, wherein he played First Lord of the Admiralty Walter Hornsby, which... Full Biography
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