Brian Aherne

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1. First role

   Aherne's first London stage appearance came at the Garrick Theatre on 26 December 1913, in Where the Rainbow Ends, a play written by Clifford Mills and John Ramsey that played at various theaters for more than 25 years.

2. Early training

   Aherne trained as a child actor at the Italia Conti Academy in London before finishing his education at Malvern College.

3. First role

   Brian Aherne first took the New York City stage on 9 February 1931, at the Empire Theatre. He played Robert Browning in Rudolf Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Katharine Cornell opposite him, and the play ran 370 performances.

4. A change of course

   Aherne stopped making films in 1943 and became a flight instructor at Falcon Field in Arizona for the Royal Air Force.

5. First role

   Aherne made his television debut in 1950 with "Dear Brutus" for The Ford Theatre Hour, a part he had already played on stage in Boston.

6. A first

   In 1960, Brian Aherne took the role of George Bernard Shaw in Dear Liar, his last Broadway show, playing opposite Cornell's Mrs Patrick Campbell.