Graham Payn

Actor + Singer + Soprano

Male

Born Apr 25, 1918

Died Nov 4, 2005

Graham Payn was a South African-born English actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward. Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as a singer and actor in the works of Coward and others. After Coward… Read More

Romance

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Noël Coward
Dated 1945 - 1973
Laurence Olivier
Fling
Alfred Lunt
Fling
John Gielgud
Dated

News + Updates

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Music Video | Gallavin: Mad About The Boy Miami Herald.Com
Google News - Jun 08, 2011

This is, for instance, the case of Noël Coward, who wrote Mad about the Boy for his long term partner Graham Payn – a British-South African actor. Though these songs were originally written for men, they have been rarely sung by men
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Der Jazz Provokateur: Gallavin Queer.De
Google News - May 15, 2011

... plötzlich von einem Mann gesungen wird. Eingeweihte wissen allerdings: In Tat und Wahrheit hat Noël Coward dieses Lied für Graham Payn geschrieben, einen südamerikanischen Schauspieler, der während langer Jahre sein Geliebter war
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Sir Noël's Epistles
NYTimes - Nov 25, 2007

The Letters Of Noël Coward Edited and with commentary by Barry Day. Illustrated. 780 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $37.50. The astute English critic Kenneth Tynan identified Broadway humor as being chiefly of two kinds: Jewish and homosexual. He might have called it kvetch and bitch, perfectly good types, but not really British. Noël Coward, who was only
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Biblio File; A Wit's End
NYTimes - Sep 16, 2007

Debonair, suave, urbane, Noel Coward epitomized the cardinal virtues of his era -- qualities that not many men aspire to anymore. The characters Coward created inhabit a world that has since changed beyond recognition. By the souped-up standards of ''The Lion King'' and ''Rent,'' his operetta-tinged melodies and patter lyrics strike today's
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1918 Birth Born in 1918.

TEENAGE

1931 13 Years Old In October 1931 he broadcast as a boy soprano on the BBC in a programme featuring Derek Oldham and Mabel Constanduros, and made further broadcasts in 1932 and 1933. … Read More

1936 18 Years Old Returning to England in 1936, Payn broadcast frequently as a light baritone on radio as well as on the new television service in variety shows in 1938 and 1939; he was also cast in radio plays. … Read More

TWENTIES

1941 23 Years Old In 1941 and 1942, he appeared in Up and Doing, a revue, with Leslie Henson, Binnie Hale, Cyril Ritchard and Stanley Holloway, and its successor Fine and Dandy, with the cast unchanged except for Dorothy Dickson replacing Binnie Hale. … Read More

1943 25 Years Old In 1943, Payn announced his engagement to marry Sheila Ascoli, but the wedding did not take place. … Read More

THIRTIES

1949 31 Years Old Payn also did some film work. In 1949 he was in the Borstal drama Boys in Brown, with Dirk Bogarde and Richard Attenborough. … Read More

FIFTIES

1973 55 Years Old After Coward died in 1973, Payn's career for the rest of his life became the administration of the Coward Estate. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1988 70 Years Old In 1988, 15 years after Coward's death, Payn, who "hadn't the heart to use it again", gave their Jamaican home, the Firefly Estate, to the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

1994 76 Years Old … Payn wrote his autobiography, My Life With Noël Coward, in 1994. … Read More

2005 87 Years Old He retained their other home in Switzerland, where he died in 2005, aged 87.

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