Philip Merivale
Biography
Philip Merivale was an English stage and film actor and screenwriter whose career began in the theater. He made his professional stage debut in 1906 with the F. R. Benson company in its production of the Orestean Trilogy of Aeschylus, and he trained in part under Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He made his Broadway debut in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1910, followed by Henry of Navarre the same year, and he had acted in about fifty plays before 1914, when he returned to the United States for Pygmalion. After his World War I service with the Canadian Air Force, he toured the United States with George Arliss in 1919 and later played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice. He entered cinema during the silent era, appeared in twenty films, and scripted one. His radio debut came in 1930, starring in Death Takes a Holiday for CBS's Play of the Month. He died in 1946.
59years old at death
- Born Los Angeles
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 5 years1941 to 1946
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In 1906, Merivale made his professional stage debut. He appeared in the F. R. Benson company's staging of Aeschylus's Orestean Trilogy.
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Merivale's first radio appearance came on February 11, 1930. He starred in "Death Takes a Holiday", which opened Play of the Month on CBS.
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