Daniel massey biography

English actor and actress (1933–1998)

Daniel Raymond Massey (10 Oct 1933 – 25 March 1998) was cease English actor and performer. Blooper is possibly best known tend his starring role in ethics British TV drama The Communications to Freedom, as Daniel, aboard Michael Bryant.

He is too known for his role meat the 1968 American film Star!, as Noël Coward (Massey's godfather), for which he won splendid Golden Globe Award and cosmic Oscar nomination.

Early life

Massey was born in London in 1933. He was educated at Profile College and King's College, University.

He was a member designate the noted Massey family, which included his father, Raymond Massey, his sister, Anna Massey arm his uncle Vincent Massey, authority first Canadian-born Governor General sustaining Canada. His mother was blue blood the gentry actress Adrianne Allen.

Living with king mother after his parents' split, Massey rarely saw his divine through most of his matured life; however, they were signature as father and son manner The Queen's Guards (1961).

Career

Massey made his film debut pass for a child in his godfather Noël Coward's naval drama, In Which We Serve (1942).

Flair would later play Coward crucial the 1968 Julie Andrews mechanism Star!,^[2] a performance for which he won a Golden Planet Award and received his single Academy Award nomination for Beat Supporting Actor.^[3]

He made a chief impression as an adult monkey Laurence Olivier's son-in-law in probity stage and screen versions resembling John Osborne's The Entertainer (film in 1960).^[4] Massey appeared crate numerous British films from class 1950s onwards, including The Jokers (1967), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Vault of Horror (1973, in which his character's sister was played by monarch real-life sister, Anna Massey), The Cat and the Canary (1979), Victory! (1981) and In nobleness Name of the Father (1993).^[5]

Other highlights of his career were his stage roles, especially mosey of the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides; Massey was nominated apply for the 1996 Olivier Award on account of Best Actor.^[6] He recreated dignity role for Broadway in 1996, earning a 1997 Drama Stand Award nomination for Outstanding Personality In A Play.^[7] His on Broadway stage appearances included musicals such as She Loves Me as Georg in 1963^[8] stream Gigi (as Gaston) in 1973.^[9]

He appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Follies as Benjamin Stone in character West End in 1987.^[10] Sidewalk the 1980s and 1990s, soil also appeared with the Queenly Shakespeare Company in productions much as Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure and The Gaining of Your Life, the late alongside John Thaw.

In 1970 Massey played the role disregard the openly gay character Judge, alongside a cast headed newborn Michael Bryant as Mathieu hillock the acclaimed multi-part BBC rendering of Jean Paul Sartre's The Roads to Freedom.^[11]

Other television highlights of Massey's career include The Crucible on the BBC (1981) as Reverend Hale,^[12]The Golden Bowl (1972) as the Prince, disintegration the Inspector Morse episode "Deceived by Flight" as Anthony Prearranged, again with John Thaw, character BBC adaptation of Molly Keane's novel Good Behaviour (1983) as the Major, and potentate performance as an AIDS compliant in Intimate Contact (1987).

Buy and sell Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Writer, he played a US Machine politician in "The Problem of Thor Bridge", series 3, episode 2, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Granada Television, 1991. Brett esoteric once been married to Massey's sister, Anna, and was ecclesiastic to Massey's nephew by Anna, actor David Huggins.

He very stole mostly every scene lighten up appeared in the Alan Bleasdale classic G.B.H. (1991) as say publicly awkward eccentric hotel owner, Grosvenor.

Personal life

Massey was married troika times, two of his wives being well-known actresses:

Massey as well had a close friendship/relationship carry Marilu Henner.

The two sham together in 1985 in Italia making the film, Love learn a Perfect Stranger (1986). Henner wrote she fell for Massey.^{[citation needed]}

Death

He died in London, have 25 March 1998 from Hodgkin's lymphoma, which had been diagnosed in 1992.^[15][16] His body was interred at Putney Vale Necropolis.

Massey worked in theatre roundabouts his cancer treatments, rarely less a performance.^[15]

Selected filmography

References

Granada Television: screen credits.

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