Ronald Harwood Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ronald Harwood Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934

â€" 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author,

playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British

stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was

nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

(2007).Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, in what was then

the Union of South Africa, the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac

Horwitz. After attending Sea Point High School, Harwood moved from

Cape Town to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre. He

changed his surname from Horwitz to Harwood after an English master

told him it was too foreign and too Jewish for a stage actor.After

training for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined

the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit. From 1953 to 1958,

Harwood was Sir Donald's personal dresser. He would later draw on this

experience when he wrote the stage play, The Dresser, and the

biography, Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His life and work in the

Unfashionable Theatre. In 1959, after leaving the Donald Wolfit

Company, he joined the 59 Theatre Company for a season at the Lyric

Hammersmith during which time he played the role of Pablo both in the

stage debut of Alun Owen's play The Rough and Ready Lot and in its

1959 television adaptation.
Ronald Harwood Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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