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	Donald Wolfit Papers, Biographical Sketch
		Donald Wolfit was born in 1902 in the village of Balderton in Nottinghamshire.
		Wolfit's 1944 Lear marked the first time he was broadly recognized as a great actor.
		Wolfit's lifetime of service to the theater and to Shakespeare was rewarded with a knighthood in 1957; although he announced his retirement the following year, he persisted with his stage work.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/wolfit.bio.html (681 words)

	Donald Wolfit
		Donald Wolfit (1902-1968) was an English actor, knighted in 1957 for his services to the theatre.
		Wolfit was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and made his stage début in 1920.
		Wolfit was primarily a stage actor, and, despite taking his famous portrayal of Volpone[?] to television and appearing in a few films, he was never widely known outside the UK.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Donald_Wolfit.html (103 words)

	Donald Wolfit - Overview - MSN Movies
		February 17, 1968 in London, England, UK Biography:One of the last of England's great actor/managers, "Donald Wolfit" began his stage career in 1920.
		Wolfit made his well-received London debut in The Wandering Jew, and by 1929 was a member in good standing of the Old Vic.
		It was for this patriotic effort, coupled with his theatrical accomplishments, that Wolfit was knighted in 1957.
	movies.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=246719 (194 words)

	Donald Wolfit - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wolfit appeared in numerous theatre seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon but preferred the life of a touring player and as the star of a vagabond troupe.
		Wolfit is best remembered today as the inspiration for the film The Dresser (1983), in which Albert Finney plays a barnstorming actor-manager.
		Although Sir Donald was a very good actor he was also quite vain and always surrounded himself with inexperienced or inferior actors so that his part always took center stage unchallenged by a better performer.
	imdb.com /name/nm0938372/bio (635 words)

	Sir Donald Wolfit - Britmovie - British Film Forums
		Wolfit seems to be something of a forgotten figure these days; even when he was alive opinion about him differed wildly with the likes of Edith Evans and Anthony Quayle waxing lyrical about his interpretations while such as Alec Guinness and John Gielgud were disparaging.
		Wolfit appeared in quite a few films but his starring roles were in rather second-rate films such as "Isn't Life Wonderful?", "Blood of the Vampire" and "Svengali" - the last-named part being one to encourage his "hammy" tendencies.
		Wolfit was known principally, of course, as a Shakespearean actor (the character of "Sir" in The Dresser seems to have been modelled, in part, on him) but he is ill-represented, as such, in surviving available recordings.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /forums/actors-actresses/3452-sir-donald-wolfit.html (629 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wolfit was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School) and made his stage dÃ©but in 1920.
		Wolfit's speciality was Shakespeare, known especially for his performances as King Lear and Richard III as well as Oedipus, Volpone and Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine.
		Donald Wolfit died from cardiovascular disease at the age of 66.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Donald_Wolfit (326 words)

	The Theatre Archive Project - interviews - Brian Sanders (page 1)
		And Donald Wolfit put a hundred pounds on each of us, and ENSA under whom we were travelling did the same thing.
		Donald was carrying on over lunch one day, and Sir Bertrand said: apply for the boy alone, leaving the girls off, and we'll see what we can do.
		So Donald went all through that again, and I was summoned to Bow Street and I was interviewed by Sir Bertrand Watson for a quarter of an hour, and in the finish he said 'yes, I think we can let you go'.
	www.bl.uk /projects/theatrearchive/sanders.html (1570 words)

	The Donald Page
		Donald Bellisario, Television Producer, Writer and Director of such shows as Quantum Leap, Battlestar Gallactica, Magnum P.I., Airwolf, Tales of the Golden Monkey and J.A.G.; Biography from Caucus For T.V. Producers.
		Donald Barthelme, 1931-1989, author; some consider him to be the father of postmodern fiction; an instructor's guide
		Of the male names counted in the sample, "Donald" is listed as the 15th most common; "Don" is listed as the 135th most common; "Donnie" is listed as the 315th most common; "Donny" is listed as the 709th most common; "Donn" is listed as the 933rd most common.
	www.geocities.com /soakbear/donald.htm (783 words)

	Biography of Donald Wolfit - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Donald Wolfit (1902-1968) was an English actor-manager, knighted in 1957 for his services to the theatre.
		Wolfit was born in Newark, EnglandNewark, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School) and made his stage dÃ©but in 1920.
		Wolfit was primarily a stage actor, and, despite taking his famous portrayal of Volpone to television and appearing in a few films, he was never widely known outside the United KingdomUK.
	www.short-biographies.com /biographies/DonaldWolfit.html (265 words)

	Donald Wolfit - Biography
		Wolfit appeared in numerous theatre seasons at the Old Vic and Stratford-upon-Avon but preferred the life of a touring player and as the star of a vagabond troupe.
		Wolfit is best remembered today as the inspiration for the film The Dresser (1983), in which Albert Finney plays a barnstorming actor-manager.
		Although Sir Donald was a very good actor he was also quite vain and always surrounded himself with inexperienced or inferior actors so that his part always took center stage unchallenged by a better performer.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0938372/bio (690 words)

	Donald Wolfit - Overview - MSN Movies
		April 20, 1902 in Newark-on-Trent, England, UK Biography:One of the last of England's great actor/managers, "Donald Wolfit" began his stage career in 1920.
		Wolfit made his well-received London debut in The Wandering Jew, and by 1929 was a member in good standing of the Old Vic.
		Though he made his first film in 1934, he didn't turn to moviemaking on a full-time basis until the 1950s.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=246719 (186 words)

	The Theatre Archive Project - interviews - Brian Sanders (page 2)
		And Donald came down onto the stage, managed to carry on, because the audience didn't know what had happened, we could see, and the three witches, when they left, I've never seen three actors having more hysterics.
		He was with Wolfit on that first tour, and he went on acting, I did some radio acting much later on in the seventies, eighties, nineties, and Godfrey was in those and he was in his early nineties!
		Donald I remember told me a story once of how, when they were in a remote village in the twenties, he was in a short play in which he had to, I don't think he had to beat his wife, but he had to go for her.
	www.bl.uk /projects/theatrearchive/sanders2.html (1522 words)

	Donald Wolfit Photos - Donald Wolfit News - Donald Wolfit Information
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	Ronald Harwood - author of 'The Dresser' and other plays published by Amber Lane Press
		A biography of Sir Donald Wolfit (1902-68) – one of the very last of the old-style actor-managers.
		Acclaimed by many as the greatest of all the Lears, he was a virtuoso performer par excellence but as such was destined to remain firmly rooted in the 'unfashionable' theatre.
		When Wolfit died he left to his ‘good friend’ Ronald Harwood the sum of £50 “in the hope that he will undertake some form of biography of my work in the theatre...”.
	members.aol.com /amberlanepress/harwood_ronald.htm (1661 words)

	BEDLAM: Alexis Denisof: A Celebration of Wolfit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Twenty-five years after the death of Sir Donald Wolfit, there are efforts to rehabilitate his reputation.
		The Newark festival will also feature Wolfit contemporaries such as Godfrey Kenton, Frank Thornton (alias Captain Peacock from Are You Being Served?), and Ned Sherrin, whose recent cameo in Orlando evoked Wolfit at his greatest.
		When Wolfit made an entrance, others actors on stage were asked to turn their backs on the audience to look at him.
	www.betsyda.com /denisof/items/adwolfit.html (390 words)

	Donald Wolfit
		One of the great British stage actors of his era Donald Wolfit was noted...
		The Hands of Orlac (1960) (as Sir Donald Wolfit)....
		Find where Donald Wolfit is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0938372 (276 words)

	Donald Wolfit - Moviefone
		Bio: One of the last of England's great actor/managers, Donald Wolfit began his stage career in 1920.
		Wolfit made his well-received London debut in The...
		All about Donald Wolfit and Donald Wolfit facts.
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