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Banbury, Frith

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Banbury, Frith (1912– ), English actor, manager, and director, who made his first appearance on the stage in 1933, and played a wide variety of parts, both in straight plays and revues, before directing Dark Summer (1947) by Wynyard Browne, whose comedy The Holly and the Ivy (1950) he also directed. He was then responsible for a number of interesting productions, including N. C. Hunter's Waters of the Moon (1951); Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea (1952); John Whiting's Marching Song (1954); and Bolt's Flowering Cherry (1957) and The Tiger and the Horse (1960). He also directed plays in New York, and Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1968) for the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv. After 1970 he was mainly involved in revivals, including Sherwood's Reunion in Vienna (1971) at Chichester and Michael Redgrave's adaptation of Henry James's The Aspern Papers (1984).

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