Henry Ainley

Screen Actor + Novelist + Baroness

Male

Born Aug 21, 1879

Hometown Morley, West York...

Died Oct 31, 1945

Death Place London

Other Names Henry Hinchliffe ...

Henry Hinchliffe Ainley was an English Shakespearean stage and screen actor. He was married three times to Susanne Sheldon, Elaine Fearon and the novelist Bettina Riddle, later Baroness von Hutten zum Stolzenberg.

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Garnet Track & Field Qualifies For Cc Championships The Phoenix
Google News - Apr 21, 2011

The Garnet have a plethora of qualifiers in the 800 meter run: Scott, Cariad Chester '13, Henry Ainley '12, Hugh Troeger '14, Matthew Heck '13 and Jake Weiner '14. Other qualifiers on the track include Chris Wickham '12 in the 3000 meter steeplechase;
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The Talk; Eye Spy
NYTimes - Aug 26, 2007

Perched on the edge of her seat in a passenger lounge at La Guardia Airport, Clarissa Dalrymple rears back from her carry-on, aghast. ''Damn it!'' she says in a booming stage whisper. ''I forgot my pearls.'' Dalrymple had hurried that morning into a pair of skinny jeans, a black sweater and pointy, white suede Daryl K boots. All set off a regal
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Books Of The Times; Ruthlessly Practical, Undeniably Brilliant
NYTimes - Nov 23, 2005

Olivier By Terry Coleman Illustrated. 595 pages. Henry Holt & Company. $32.50. In the early 1960's, Laurence Olivier defined the goal of acting to Michael Gambon, his young protégé at the National Theater. Every member of the audience, he said, both male and female, should want to have sex with you. The seduction metaphor turns up again and again
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Television; 'The Bretts': Backstage Life In 1920's London
NYTimes - Oct 11, 1987

LEAD: THE YEAR 1927 WAS WHEN LONdon theater-goers turned on that enfant terrible, Noel Coward, heckling two of his new plays into premature oblivion. It was the year Rodgers and Hart's ''Girl Friend'' arrived from Broadway, and everyone seemed to be humming ''My Heart Stood Still,'' the song they'd contributed to a West End revue called ''One Dam
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CHILDHOOD

1879 Birth Born on August 21, 1879.

TWENTIES

1902 22 Years Old He found fame in 1902 as Paolo in Paolo and Francesca. … Read More

THIRTIES

1915 35 Years Old Ainley played Joseph Quinney in Quinneys' on stage in 1915 and on film in 1919.

FORTIES

1921 41 Years Old In 1921, Ainley became a member of the council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and served as its president from 1931 to 1933. … Read More

1922 42 Years Old He appeared in A. A. Milne's The Dover Road opposite Athene Seyler in 1922 and as the Bishop of Chelsea in Bernard Shaw's Getting Married at the Haymarket Theatre.

1929 49 Years Old In 1929, he played James Fraser in St. John Ervine's The First Mrs. Fraser, a role he reprised for the film version in 1932. … Read More

FIFTIES

1932 52 Years Old 3 More Events

… He was also the father of Henrietta Riddle who was briefly engaged to Alistair Cooke in 1932. … Read More

1936 56 Years Old Shakespearean screen credits include Henry VIII (1911) and As You Like It, a 1936 film which also featured his son Richard and Laurence Olivier.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1945 66 Years Old Died on October 31, 1945.

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