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Step Beyond">One Step Beyond</a></i>, episode "Image of Death" (1959)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Guy Thornton Bor</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1903-11-01</span>)</span>1 November 1903<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Kilkenny" title="Kilkenny">Kilkenny</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Kilkenny" title="County Kilkenny">County Kilkenny</a>, Ireland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">19 January 1973<span style="display:none">(1973-01-19)</span> (aged 69)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Shamley_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Shamley Green">Shamley Green</a>, Surrey, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Woking_Crematorium" title="Woking Crematorium">Woking Crematorium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woking" title="Woking">Woking</a>, Surrey, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Actor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1925–1973</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Max Adrian</b> (born <b>Guy Thornton Bor</b>; 1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" title="Royal Shakespeare Company">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre</a>. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Revue" title="Revue">revue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Musical_theatre" title="Musical theatre">musicals</a>, and in one-man shows about <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>, and in cinema and television films, notably <a href="/wiki/Ken_Russell" title="Ken Russell">Ken Russell</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Summer" title="Song of Summer">Song of Summer</a></i> as the ailing composer <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Delius" title="Frederick Delius">Delius</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adrian was born in <a href="/wiki/Kilkenny" title="Kilkenny">Kilkenny</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Kilkenny" title="County Kilkenny">County Kilkenny</a>, Ireland, the son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and Mabel Lloyd Thornton.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was born in the provincial <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Ireland" title="Bank of Ireland">Bank of Ireland</a> branch in Kilkenny, where his father was the bank manager, into a <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a> family, the seventh of eight children. His paternal ancestry was <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch</a>, from settlers who arrived in Ireland with <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William of Orange</a> in 1689.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was educated at the <a href="/wiki/Portora_Royal_School" title="Portora Royal School">Portora Royal School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Enniskillen" title="Enniskillen">Enniskillen</a>, whose past pupils also included <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-morley_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adrian began his career as a chorus boy at a silent moving-picture house, coming on as part of the chorus line while the reels were being changed. He made his stage debut in the chorus of <i>Katja the Dancer</i> in 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then toured with <i><a href="/wiki/Lady,_Be_Good_(musical)" title="Lady, Be Good (musical)">Lady Be Good</a></i> and <i>The Blue Train</i>. He made his <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> debut in <i>The Squall</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Gielgud_Theatre" title="Gielgud Theatre">Globe Theatre</a> in December 1927. After working with <a href="/wiki/Tod_Slaughter" title="Tod Slaughter">Tod Slaughter</a>'s company at <a href="/wiki/Peterborough" title="Peterborough">Peterborough</a>, he joined the weekly <a href="/wiki/Repertory" class="mw-redirect" title="Repertory">rep</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, where he took some forty roles a year.<sup id="cite_ref-morley_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He made further West End appearances in <i>The Best of Both Worlds</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Players%27_Theatre" title="Players' Theatre">Players' Theatre</a> in 1930, <i>The Glass Wall</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_Theatre_(London)" title="Embassy Theatre (London)">Embassy Theatre</a> in 1933, <i>First Episode</i> by <a href="/wiki/Terence_Rattigan" title="Terence Rattigan">Terence Rattigan</a> and Philip Heimann at the <a href="/wiki/Comedy_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Comedy Theatre">Comedy Theatre</a> in 1934 (later toured in the UK and then transferred to Broadway,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>This Desirable Residence</i> at the Embassy in 1935, and <i>England Expects</i>, also at the Embassy in 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classical_roles_and_revue">Classical roles and revue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Classical roles and revue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adrian first achieved wide public notice in a nine-month season at the Westminster Theatre from September 1938, as Pandarus in a modern dress <i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida" title="Troilus and Cressida">Troilus and Cressida</a></i> and Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonnington in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Dilemma_(play)" title="The Doctor's Dilemma (play)">The Doctor's Dilemma</a></i>, winning enthusiastic notices from the critics: "Mr Max Adrian triumphantly turns Pandarus into a chattering and repulsive fribble of the glossily squalid night-club type";<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "The egregious 'B.B.'... is a great piece of fun, and Mr. Max Adrian rightly draws him with all possible exuberance of line."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adrian joined the <a href="/wiki/Old_Vic" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Vic">Old Vic</a> company in 1939, playing the Dauphin in Shaw's <i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joan_(play)" title="Saint Joan (play)">Saint Joan</a></i>, "a beautifully malicious study in slyness, effeminacy, meanness, and a curious lost, inverted dignity."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He continued classical work with <a href="/wiki/John_Gielgud" title="John Gielgud">John Gielgud</a>'s company at the <a href="/wiki/Haymarket_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Haymarket Theatre">Haymarket Theatre</a> (1944–45), where he appeared as <a href="/wiki/Puck_(Shakespeare)" class="mw-redirect" title="Puck (Shakespeare)">Puck</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i>, Osric in <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, and Tattle in <a href="/wiki/William_Congreve" title="William Congreve">William Congreve</a>'s <i>Love for Love</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-timesobit_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesobit-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Away from the classics, he played the Scarecrow in <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Theatre_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phoenix Theatre (London)">Phoenix Theatre</a> in 1943. In 1947, at the <a href="/wiki/Lyric_Theatre,_Hammersmith" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith">Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith</a>, Adrian began performing in a series of <a href="/wiki/Revue" title="Revue">revues</a> (<i>Tuppence Coloured</i>, <i>Oranges and Lemons</i>, <i>Penny Plain</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Airs_on_a_Shoestring" title="Airs on a Shoestring">Airs on a Shoestring</a></i>, <i>From Here to There,</i> and <i>Fresh Airs</i>) in which he played more than 2,000 performances,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and established himself, in <a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Morley" title="Sheridan Morley">Sheridan Morley</a>'s words, "as a superlative – if eccentric – light comedian."<sup id="cite_ref-morley_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fellow performers in the revues included <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Grenfell" title="Joyce Grenfell">Joyce Grenfell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rose_Hill_(actress)" title="Rose Hill (actress)">Rose Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Welch" title="Elisabeth Welch">Elisabeth Welch</a>. Contributors included <a href="/wiki/Michael_Flanders" title="Michael Flanders">Michael Flanders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Swann" title="Donald Swann">Donald Swann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Melville_(writer)" title="Alan Melville (writer)">Alan Melville</a>, and the producer was <a href="/wiki/Laurier_Lister" title="Laurier Lister">Laurier Lister</a>, who became Adrian's lifelong partner.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adrian's musical numbers included "Prehistoric Complaint" (as a misfit caveman), "Excelsior" (as a put-upon <a href="/wiki/Sherpa_people" title="Sherpa people">Sherpa</a>), "Guide to <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Britten</a>" (as a manic conductor), "In the <a href="/wiki/D%27Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company" title="D'Oyly Carte Opera Company">D'Oyly Cart</a> [<i>sic</i>]" (as a jaded <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> performer), and "Surly Girls" (as headmistress of <a href="/wiki/St._Trinian%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Trinian's">St. Trinian's</a>). </p><p>When revue became less popular in the mid-1950s, Adrian went to America in 1956 to appear as Dr. Pangloss and Martin in <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a>'s operetta <i><a href="/wiki/Candide_(operetta)" title="Candide (operetta)">Candide</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>. The original production was a failure, but the original cast recording has rarely been out of the catalogues in the subsequent half century. He remained in the U.S., working in summer stock in roles as varied as Doolittle in <i><a href="/wiki/Pygmalion_(play)" title="Pygmalion (play)">Pygmalion</a></i>, Jourdain in <i><a href="/wiki/Le_Bourgeois_Gentilhomme" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme">Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme</a></i>, Shylock in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i>, and Sir Peter Teazle in <i><a href="/wiki/The_School_for_Scandal" title="The School for Scandal">The School for Scandal</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He returned to London in 1959 to appear in <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/Look_After_Lulu!" title="Look After Lulu!">Look After Lulu!</a></i> in which he also later played on Broadway.<sup id="cite_ref-morley_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1960, Adrian joined <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hall_(theatre_director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Hall (theatre director)">Peter Hall</a>'s newly formed Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-upon-Avon</a>, together with such actors as <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ashcroft" title="Peggy Ashcroft">Peggy Ashcroft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole" title="Peter O'Toole">Peter O'Toole</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diana_Rigg" title="Diana Rigg">Diana Rigg</a>. He played Jaques in <i><a href="/wiki/As_You_Like_It" title="As You Like It">As You Like It</a></i>, Feste in <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i>, Pandarus in <i>Troilus and Cressida</i>, the Cardinal in <a href="/wiki/John_Webster" title="John Webster">John Webster</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Duchess_of_Malfi" title="The Duchess of Malfi">The Duchess of Malfi</a></i>, and Father Barré in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Devils_(play)" title="The Devils (play)">The Devils</a></i>, as well as a range of smaller parts. He also starred with <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Tutin" title="Dorothy Tutin">Dorothy Tutin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Johnson_(actor)" title="Richard Johnson (actor)">Richard Johnson</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Barton_(director)" title="John Barton (director)">John Barton</a> in <i>The Hollow Crown</i>, an anthology of prose and verse about the monarchs of England, devised by Barton and frequently revived in later years.<sup id="cite_ref-whoswho_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-whoswho-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adrian was one of the original members of <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">National Theatre Company</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Vic_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Vic Theatre">Old Vic</a> from 1963, and appeared as <a href="/wiki/Polonius" title="Polonius">Polonius</a> in the opening production of <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i>, in which Peter O'Toole played the Prince. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> called his performance, "sly, dry, and not quite stuffy enough, but every sally from this character was touched with a look of great complicity towards the audience which made something special of this sometimes over-charged part."<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then played the Inquisitor in <i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Joan_(play)" title="Saint Joan (play)">Saint Joan</a></i>, Serebryakov in <i><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Vanya" title="Uncle Vanya">Uncle Vanya</a></i>, Balance in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Recruiting_Officer" title="The Recruiting Officer">The Recruiting Officer</a></i> and Brovik in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Master_Builder" title="The Master Builder">The Master Builder</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-morley_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Solo_shows_and_screen_work">Solo shows and screen work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Solo shows and screen work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the late 1960s, Adrian toured as George Bernard Shaw in the one-man show <i>An Evening with GBS</i>, which played in London, on Broadway, and in Asia, Africa and Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Times</i> said that the show "presented a deeply understanding portrait... impish, malicious, playful, outrageous, affectionate, angry and almost always eloquent."<sup id="cite_ref-timesobit_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesobit-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His later one-man show about <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a> was a lesser, but real, success.<sup id="cite_ref-morley_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adrian's first film was in 1934. He appeared in several British films in the 1940s, before playing the Dauphin in the Laurence Olivier production of <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(1944_film)" title="Henry V (1944 film)">Henry V</a></i> (1944). He also appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/Dr._Terror%27s_House_of_Horrors" title="Dr. Terror's House of Horrors">Dr. Terror's House of Horrors</a></i> (1965) as the vampire Dr Blake, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Deadly_Affair" title="The Deadly Affair">The Deadly Affair</a></i> (1966), and in several <a href="/wiki/Ken_Russell" title="Ken Russell">Ken Russell</a> films: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Music_Lovers" title="The Music Lovers">The Music Lovers</a></i> (1970; as <a href="/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein" title="Anton Rubinstein">Anton Rubinstein</a>), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boy_Friend_(1971_film)" title="The Boy Friend (1971 film)"><i>The Boy Friend</i></a></i> (1971) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Devils_(film)" title="The Devils (film)">The Devils</a></i> (1971). </p><p>He was also featured in Russell's acclaimed award-winning 1968 <a href="/wiki/Omnibus_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Omnibus (UK TV series)">Omnibus</a> TV film <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Summer" title="Song of Summer">Song of Summer</a></i>, as the blind and paralysed composer <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Delius" title="Frederick Delius">Frederick Delius</a>. Adrian once said that, of all the roles he had ever played, he had never had such difficulty in ridding himself of involvement in a character as that of Delius in <i>Song of Summer</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also on television, he appeared in <a href="/wiki/Beyond_This_Place_(1957)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beyond This Place (1957)">a 1957 adaptation</a> of <a href="/wiki/A._J._Cronin" title="A. J. Cronin">A. J. Cronin</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_This_Place_(novel)" title="Beyond This Place (novel)">Beyond This Place</a></i>, which was directed by <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a>. His other television work included the role of Senator Ludicrus Sextus in the first season of <i><a href="/wiki/Up_Pompeii!" title="Up Pompeii!">Up Pompeii!</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Howerd" title="Frankie Howerd">Frankie Howerd</a> (1969), <a href="/wiki/Fagin" title="Fagin">Fagin</a> in the 1962 dramatisation of <i><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Twist_(1962_TV_serial)" title="Oliver Twist (1962 TV serial)">Oliver Twist</a></i>, and parts in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Baron_(TV_series)" title="The Baron (TV series)">The Baron</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Adam_Adamant_Lives!" title="Adam Adamant Lives!">Adam Adamant Lives!</a></i> and in 1959, in the Case of the Deadly Toy <i><a href="/wiki/Perry_Mason_(1957_TV_series)" title="Perry Mason (1957 TV series)">Perry Mason</a></i>. He also appeared in the <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> story <i><a href="/wiki/The_Myth_Makers" title="The Myth Makers">The Myth Makers</a></i> as <a href="/wiki/Priam" title="Priam">King Priam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He played the part of the Baron de Charlus in the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> radio plays <i>Six Proust Reconstructions</i> by <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Hansford_Johnson" title="Pamela Hansford Johnson">Pamela Hansford Johnson</a>. </p><p>His voice and acting style were notably distinctive. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> 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." The Times also described his 1934 performance in England Expects (<a href="/wiki/Embassy_Theatre_(London)" title="Embassy Theatre (London)">Embassy Theatre</a>) as "a gilded habitué of the backstairs" as outstanding. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adrian died at age 69 from a heart attack, at his and Lister's home, Smarkham Orchard, <a href="/wiki/Shamley_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Shamley Green">Shamley Green</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Guildford" title="Guildford">Guildford, Surrey</a>, after returning from the television studios where he had been recording <a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Caucasian_Chalk_Circle" title="The Caucasian Chalk Circle">The Caucasian Chalk Circle</a></i> for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At his memorial service, at which the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a> said the great names of British theatre paid tribute to Max Adrian's style and professionalism, the lessons were read by <a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> and Laurence Olivier and the eulogy was given by Joyce Grenfell.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His elder brother was the botanist Dr. <a href="/wiki/Norman_Bor" title="Norman Bor">Norman Loftus Bor</a>, who predeceased him by four weeks. Another brother, Lieutenant Thomas Humphrey Bor, <a href="/wiki/RNR" class="mw-redirect" title="RNR">RNR</a>, was killed when his <a href="/wiki/British_E-class_submarine" title="British E-class submarine">E-class</a> submarine struck a mine in the North Sea in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His younger brother, Fetherston Briscoe Bor, remained a farmer in Ireland until his death in 1965. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Title</th> <th>Role</th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1934</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Primrose_Path_(1934_film)" title="The Primrose Path (1934 film)">The Primrose Path</a></i></td> <td>Julian Leigh</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">1936</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/A_Touch_of_the_Moon" title="A Touch of the Moon">A Touch of the Moon</a></i></td> <td>Francis Leverton</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cardinal_(1936_film)" title="The Cardinal (1936 film)">The Cardinal</a></i></td> <td>Barber</td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/To_Catch_a_Thief_(1936_film)" title="To Catch a Thief (1936 film)">To Catch a Thief</a></i></td> <td>Salesman</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Happy_Family_(1936_film)" title="The Happy Family (1936 film)">The Happy Family</a></i></td> <td>Noel Hutt</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Nothing_Like_Publicity" title="Nothing Like Publicity">Nothing Like Publicity</a></i></td> <td>Bob Wharncliffe</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1937</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Why_Pick_on_Me%3F_(1937_film)" title="Why Pick on Me? (1937 film)">Why Pick on Me?</a></i></td> <td>Jack Mills</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>When the Devil Was Well</i></td> <td>David</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1938</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Macushla_(film)" title="Macushla (film)">Macushla</a></i></td> <td>Kerry Muldoon</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Merely Mr. Hawkins</i></td> <td>Mr. Fletcher</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1941</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Kipps_(1941_film)" title="Kipps (1941 film)">Kipps</a></i></td> <td>Chester Coote</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Jeannie_(film)" title="Jeannie (film)">Jeannie</a></i></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Penn_of_Pennsylvania" title="Penn of Pennsylvania">Penn of Pennsylvania</a></i></td> <td>Elton</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1942</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Mr._Pitt" title="The Young Mr. Pitt">The Young Mr. Pitt</a></i></td> <td>Sheridan</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Talk_About_Jacqueline" title="Talk About Jacqueline">Talk About Jacqueline</a></i></td> <td>Lionel</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1944</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(1944_film)" title="Henry V (1944 film)">Henry V</a></i></td> <td>The Dauphin</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1950</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Her_Favourite_Husband" title="Her Favourite Husband">Her Favourite Husband</a></i></td> <td>Catoni</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1951</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Pool_of_London_(film)" title="Pool of London (film)">Pool of London</a></i></td> <td>Charlie Vernon, acrobat / George</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1952</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_King_and_the_Mockingbird" title="The King and the Mockingbird">The King and the Mockingbird</a></i></td> <td>The King</td> <td>English version, voice </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)" title="The Pickwick Papers (1952 film)">The Pickwick Papers</a></i></td> <td>Aide</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1959</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents" title="Alfred Hitchcock Presents">Alfred Hitchcock Presents</a></i></td> <td>Robert Stone</td> <td>Season 4 Episode 29: "Banquo's Chair" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1963</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Vanya_(1963_film)" title="Uncle Vanya (1963 film)">Uncle Vanya</a></i></td> <td>Professor Alexander Serebryakov</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1965</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Dr._Terror%27s_House_of_Horrors" title="Dr. Terror's House of Horrors">Dr. Terror's House of Horrors</a></i></td> <td>Dr. Blake</td> <td>(segment "Vampire") </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1967</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Deadly_Affair" title="The Deadly Affair">The Deadly Affair</a></i></td> <td>Morton, Adviser</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Terrornauts" title="The Terrornauts">The Terrornauts</a></i></td> <td>Dr. Henry Shore</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1968</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Summer" title="Song of Summer">Song of Summer</a></i></td> <td>Frederick Delius</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1971</td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Music_Lovers" title="The Music Lovers">The Music Lovers</a></i></td> <td>Nicholas Rubinstein</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devils_(film)" title="The Devils (film)">The Devils</a></i></td> <td>Ibert</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boy_Friend_(1971_film)" title="The Boy Friend (1971 film)">The Boy Friend</a></i></td> <td>Max Mandeville aka Mr. Max / Lord Hubert Brockhurst</td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1916/01327/1548186.pdf">"Bor, Guy Thornton"</a>, <i>irishgenealogy.ie</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G000852.pdf">"The Family Of Bor Of Holland And Ireland "</a>, Bor, Edward J, London, England 1911, <i>seekingmyroots.com</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-morley-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-morley_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morley_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morley_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morley_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morley_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-morley_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Morley, page 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">according to his <i><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Who_(UK)" title="Who's Who (UK)">Who's Who</a></i> entry; Morley dates his debut to August 1926</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Where the play was retitled <i>College Sinners</i> (ref. Gaye, p. 288)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i>, 25 January 1930, p. 10; 21 February 1933, p. 10; 27 January 1934, p. 8; 28 May 1935, p. 14; and 14 April 1936, p. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, 25 September 1938, p. 13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i>, 18 February 1939, p. 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i>, 12 October 1939, p. 6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-timesobit-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-timesobit_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-timesobit_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i>, 20 January 1973, p. 16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i> 12 July 1955, p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Obituary of Mr Laurier Lister", <i>The Times</i>, 2 October 1986</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gaye, p. 289</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-whoswho-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-whoswho_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U151627">"Adrian, Max"</a>, <i>Who Was Who</i>, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, Retrieved 27 January 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-guardian-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-guardian_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-guardian_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Guardian</i>, 20 January 1973, p. 7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The show was sometimes given under the title "By George!" See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121020060748/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/411/Max-Adrian"><i>The New York Times</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview6/songofsummer.htm">"Song of Summer"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090106111114/http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview6/songofsummer.htm">Archived</a> 6 January 2009 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at DVD Beaver</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/mythmakers/detail.shtml"><i>The Myth Makers</i></a> at the BBC's <i>Doctor Who</i> episode guide.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012451/">Max Adrian</a> at the IMDB database.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Elsom, John: <i>Adrian, Max (1903–1973)</i>, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40447,">Retrieved 28 Jan 2009</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rnsubs.co.uk/crew/roh.html?name=Bor"><i>Roll of Honour</i></a> <i>rnsubs.co.uk</i></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Adrian&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gaye, Freda: <i>Who's Who in the Theatre</i>, fourteenth edition, 1967, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, London</li> <li>Morley, Sheridan: <i>The Great Stage Stars</i>, Angus & Robertson, London, 1986. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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