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Antibes, France [3] Occupations. Actor. Real estate businessman. Years active. c. 1936 – 1960. Spouse. Barbara L. Eaton (1967–1972) Michelle Bisserier (1974–1994) (his death) [4] Brian T. Roper[note 1] (19 August 1929 – 14 May 1994) [1][2][3][5][note 2] was a British-American film and television actor, and, in later years, real estate ...
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Military Cross. Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films.
- Last Will and Testament
- The Funeral Directors
- ‘Mr Dickens Very Ill, Most Urgent’
- False Claims and Ambition
- For The Ages
In his will (reproduced in Forster’s biography), Dickens had left instructions that he should be: Forster added that Dickens’s preferred place of burial – his Plan A – was “in the small graveyard under Rochester Castle wall, or in the little churches of Cobham or Shorne”, which were all near his country home. However, Forster added: “All these were...
My investigation has revealed, however, how Dickens’s burial in Poets’ Corner was engineered by Forster and Stanley to satisfy their personal aims, rather than the author’s own. While the official story was that it was the “will of the people” to have Dickens buried in the Abbey (and there were articles in The Times to this effect), the reality was...
The new evidence I have found was gathered from libraries, archives and cathedral vaults and prove beyond a doubt that any claims about the Westminster burial being the will of the people are false. What emerges is an atmosphere of urgency in the Dickens household after the author collapsed. Dickens’s son Charley sent the telegram to the author’s s...
Meanwhile, the idea of getting Dickens to Poets’ Corner was growing in Stanley’s imagination. He wrote to his cousin Louisa on Saturday June 11 to say “I never met (Dickens) till this year… And now he is gone … and it is not improbable that I may bury him”. It’s interesting how quickly the plan crystallised in the Dean’s mind. Within the space of 4...
My research demonstrates that the official, authorised accounts of the lives and deaths of the rich and famous are open to question and forensic investigation – even long after their histories have been written and accepted as canonical. Celebrity is a manufactured commodity, that depends for its effect on the degree to which the fan (which comes f...
- Leon Litvack
John Sessions (11 January 1953 – 2 November 2020), born John Marshall, was a British actor and comedian.
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Sep 29, 2024 · Charles Dickens, English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Learn more about his life and writings in this article.