Harold Lang
Biography
Harold Lang was a British character actor of stage and screen who trained at RADA and became known during the 1950s for sly or menacing parts in B-films. Born in London in 1923, he worked steadily in the theater, appearing in Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival at the Arts Theatre Club in 1952 and playing Edmund and Borachio in King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1955. He ran his own theatrical company at one point, and in 1960, as a follower of Stanislavski, began teaching acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. John Schlesinger filmed his teaching for the BBC television program Monitor in a 1961 documentary called The Class. He also directed As You Like It at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park in 1965. He died in 1970.
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 13 years1953 to 1966
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Behind the camera
In 1961, director John Schlesinger filmed Lang's teaching for a documentary called The Class, made for the BBC TV program Monitor.
Behind the camera
Lang took the director's chair for a 1965 staging of William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" at the Open Air Theatre in Regents Park, London, England. Ann Morrish, Gary Raymond, Phyllida Law, Edward Atienza, John Justin, Andrew Downie and Alfred Burke were in the cast.
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Worked with
Harold Lang shares two films with Marianne Stone, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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