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Micheál Mac Liammóir
20th-century Irish actor, playwright, writer, and artist
Micheál Mac Liammóir | |
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Mac Liammóir in The Importance of Being Oscar | |
| Born | Alfred Lee Willmore (1899-10-25)25 October 1899 Willesden, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 6 March 1978(1978-03-06) (aged 78) Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, author, playwright, painter, poet, impresario |
| Known for | Co-founding the Gate Theatre |
Micheál Mac Liammóir (born Alfred Lee Willmore; 25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978) was an actor, designer, dramatist, writer, and impresario in 20th-century Ireland. Though born in London to an English family with no Irish connections, he emigrated to Ireland in early adulthood, changed his name, invented an Irish ancestry, and remained based there for the rest of his life, successfully maintaining a fabricated identity as a native Irishman born in Cork.
With his partner, Hilton Edwards, and two others, Mac Liammóir founded the Gate Theatre in Dublin, and became one of the most recognisable figures in the arts in twentieth-century Ireland. As well as acting at the Gate and internationally, he designed numerous productions, wrote eleven plays, and published stories, verse and travel books in Irish and English. He wrote and appeared in three
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Micheál MacLiammóir (1899-1978)
Life
[Alfred Willmore; Micheál or Mícheál; not Michael or Mac Liammóir]; b. 15 Nov., London [though he professed a Cork birth]; child actor appearing in Peter Pan under [Sir] Beerbohm Tree; travelled in Spain; studied at Willesden Polytechnic School of Art [Slade by own account]; joined Gaelic League; fell under influence of W. B. Yeats and visited Ireland in 1916; returned to Ireland in 1927 with Anew McMaster, his brother-in-law (1894-1962); |
introduced to Hilton Edwards [q.v.], his partner in theatre and life, by McMaster; fnd. Taibhdhearc na Gallaimhe, 1927, producing his own Diarmuid agus Gráinne; co-fnd. Gate Theatre with Edwards, opening with Peer Gynt, 12 Oct. 1928; travelled with the Gate on many successful tours; greatly admired for leading roles incl. Emmet in Denis Johnston’s The Old Lady Says ‘No!’; Larry Doyle in John Bull’s Other Island; Brack in Hedda Gabler; also Romeo, Richard II, Hamlet (1931, 1952); won Kroneburg Gold Medal for his performance as Hamlet in Elsinore; The Importance of Being Oscar, a one-man show on Wilde (1960); |
wrote and performed I Must Be Talking to My Friends (1965), another one-man show; |