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Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death.
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Like the best wedding china perhaps, Roger Livesey’s name is hardly ever brought out of the cupboard. Mention his name to your friends and study the look in their eyes. The name may be vaguely familiar to them but you can hear an internal whisper, ‘…no that was Richard Todd. Roger Livesey? Wasn’t he in…no that was Kenneth More. Roger…Roger…Roger… B...
Indeed, Roger Livesey was a bona-fide romantic lead when Brief Encounter was being made, and his CV bore peerless references, having starred in three Powell & Pressburger masterpieces in a row: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 1943, I Know Where I’m Going in 1945 and finally, A Matter of Life and Deatha year later. For the best guess as to ho...
A strapping six footer with a gymnast’s chest and a thatch of wavy chestnut hair, Livesey would not have looked out of place on a box of porridge oats, yet there was something marvellously unique about him. His face was a many-angled affair, with a surfeit of teeth that gave him a somewhat ovine smile – much highlighted when surrounded by a thick r...
Irony of ironies, Livesey went on to play Olivier’s father in Tony Richardson’s The Entertainer (1960), though there were only two years between them. The same year, he played a disgraced padre in Basil Deardon’s fine caper The League of Gentlemen, allowing the weight of his shame to crush his character into a greying, enfeebled waif, barely able t...
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Actor. Best known of the Livesey acting brothers, a character star more than a character player, Roger Livesey is most fondly remembered for his screen roles in the films of Michael Powell: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, as the hero who ages through three wars), I Know Where I'm Going!
Sadly, Peter Sellers, Roger Livesey and James Hayter are no longer with us. But with passing, they have left behind a legacy of entertainment. Useless Information:-James Hayter did reprise his role as Friar Tuck, in a Hammer Film with Barry Ingham as Robin Hood.
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- Richard D. Winters. Played Damian Lewis. Damian Lewis leads the Band of Brothers cast as Richard Winters. Richard Winters is first introduced in Band of Brothers as the second lieutenant of Easy Company's 2nd Battalion during their training in Camp Toccoa.
- Lewis Nixon III. Played By Ron Livingston. Ron Livingston plays Lewis Nixon III in the Band of Brothers cast, another central character in the show. Richard Winters' close friend and fellow second lieutenant of Easy Company's 2nd Battalion, Nixon shares many of Winters' campaigns during the war but does not have the same trajectory up through the ranks.
- Lynn "Buck" Compton. Played By Neal McDonough. Played by Neal McDonough in the Band of Brothers cast, Buck Compton is assigned as Easy Company's 2nd Battalion assistant platoon leader during their training in Aldbourne, England.
- C. Carwood Lipton. Played By Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie Wahlberg had a career-defining performance when he stepped up to play Lipton in the Band of Brothers cast.
Roger Livesey. Actor: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The son of Joseph Livesey and Mary Catherine (nee Edwards), Roger was educated at Westminster City School, London. His first stage appearance was the office boy in Loyalties at St. James' theatre in 1917.
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Roger Livesey. Actor: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The son of Joseph Livesey and Mary Catherine (nee Edwards), Roger was educated at Westminster City School, London. His first stage appearance was the office boy in Loyalties at St. James' theatre in 1917.
