Richard Pearson obituary

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was the fate of the actor Richard Pearson, who died aged 93, to be known for his role in one of the most famous failures of the modern theater: what ' might be called a failure to "fit. In 1958 he was the original Stanley in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. After a brief visit, the success of the province, the game has sacrificed criticism in his first at the Lyric Hammersmith in London in May 1958. Overall, Pearson had a successful career spans over 70 years, playing the numbers setting often harassed, but it was Stanley who always appears as one of his favorite pieces. He repeated the role in a production of ITV in 1960.

With his characteristic high-pitched voice and downcast, Stanley disorientated Pearson expresses vulnerability. As Harold Hobson, the champion of the critical work only in 1958, wrote in the Sunday Times: "Stanley Pearson, excellent throughout, is very exciting in [their] pain surprising when given the drum of the child as a birthday present. "

Pinter once asked if the character of Stanley, a guest solo by the sea are affected by Goldberg and McCann invasive, it has become more aggressive in revivals later. Pinter said that Pearson had obtained from the beginning, and had taken the element of cruelty in inciting his boss voracious Stanley, Meg, and hinted that its strength before his executioners. Only time will the political implications of Pinter's work has become uncertain.

born in Monmouth, South Wales, Pearson was educated in Worcester and Monmouth and made his first appearance on stage at the old Collins Music Hall in Islington, north of London, 1937. But like many actors, he found his career interrupted by World War II. He served in the Army, the 52nd Division plain, was mentioned in despatches, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel.

When demobilized in 1946, quickly found work in the little theater in London, as the Swiss Embassy and Kew Bridge Cottage Q, which was the prototype of the modern band. In 1949 she married actor Pat Dickson, whom he met last year when both successfully auditioned for a production is where we are.

With a physical air and slightly plaintive sound, Pearson obtained from the type of room comedies price of the staple food of the West End in the mid-1950s: Arthur Macrae plays later this month, Gerald Savory history of William Douglas Home probable and Duchess of Fer. After the birthday party, however, his career took a decisive turn.

their ability to carry one of outraged dignity or weakness hidden in the figures apparently safe has its outlet in a number of excellent productions. He played more and more jealous of husband, Maggie Smith, Peter Shaffer public in 1962 and was a cardinal purple tiny Alice Edward Albee at the Aldwych in 1970.

• He moved to the work of William Cecil, with Eileen Atkins The Queen Elizabeth in Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina! Chichester - where he had a particularly strong in the 1970s - and in the West End. It was then completely at home as outraged mountingly bonhomous but Mr. Hardcastle in a new version of Oliver Goldsmith, She stoops to conquer the Young Vic in 1972.

then met Smith in the West End in a production of 1987 and Lovage Lettice Shaffer, where he was a lawyer wonderfully perplexed, and again in 1993, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Pearson was the kind of player in the British theater has always trusted, completely reliable and totally distinct. Including its strong, his voice slightly ribbed, was to reveal the crack in the armor of bourgeois respectability. Inevitably, their ability to stun bourgeois led to a long career in television, where he made his first appearance in 1947.

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