Max Adrian (born Guy Thornton Bor; 1 November 1903 â€" 19 January
1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was
a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the
National Theatre.In addition to his success as a character actor in
classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor
in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw
and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably
Ken Russell's Song of Summer as the ailing composer Delius. His voice
and acting style were distinctive: The Times referred to his
"Osric-like elaborations of manner", and his voice "like no other
heard on the English stage of his day, vestigially Irish and harshly
attractive."Adrian was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland,
the son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and Mabel Lloyd Thornton. He
was educated at the Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, whose past
pupils also included Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.
1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was
a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the
National Theatre.In addition to his success as a character actor in
classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor
in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw
and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably
Ken Russell's Song of Summer as the ailing composer Delius. His voice
and acting style were distinctive: The Times referred to his
"Osric-like elaborations of manner", and his voice "like no other
heard on the English stage of his day, vestigially Irish and harshly
attractive."Adrian was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland,
the son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and Mabel Lloyd Thornton. He
was educated at the Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, whose past
pupils also included Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.
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