Evans, Maurice

Evans, Maurice

▪ British-American actor
born June 3, 1901, Dorchester, Dorset, Eng.
died March 12, 1989, Rottingdean, East Sussex
 British-born stage actor who became one of the best-known Shakespearean actors in the United States in the 1930s and '40s.

 Evans acted as an amateur from childhood and obtained his first professional role in 1926. He first achieved recognition as Lieutenant Raleigh in R.C. Sherriff's play Journey's End (1929) in London. Evans acted with the Old Vic dramatic company in 1934 and then went to the United States in 1935. There he played lead roles in a series of highly successful Broadway productions of Shakespearean plays directed by Margaret Webster, including Richard II and Henry IV, Part I in 1937 and, in 1938, the first full-length version of Hamlet to be presented in the modern American theatre. In the following years he performed in Twelfth Night and Macbeth as well on Broadway. (See Richard II—>.)

      Evans became a U.S. citizen in 1941, and during World War II he entertained U.S. troops in the Pacific with a shortened version of Hamlet. After the war he played major roles in the Broadway revivals of four comedies by George Bernard Shaw, notably Man and Superman (1947). His greatest commercial success was his role in Frederick Knott's suspense drama Dial M for Murder (1952), which ran for 552 performances on Broadway. Evans himself coproduced two Broadway hits, The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953) and No Time for Sergeants (1955). He re-created many of his stage successes on American television in the 1950s and played roles in several motion pictures.

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