- Born
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- Birth nameWilliam Tyrone Guthrie
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Tyrone Guthrie was born on July 2, 1900 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Beachcomber (1938), Oedipus Rex (1957) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He was married to Judith Bretherton. He died on May 15, 1971 in Dublin, Ireland.
- SpouseJudith Bretherton
- First cousin of American actor Tyrone Power.
- Wrote several books: A Life in the Theatre (1959), In Various Directions (1965), and Tyrone Guthrie on Acting (1971)
- Guthrie was Artistic Director of Canada's Stratford Festival in its inaugural season (1953)
- He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1961 Queen's New Year Honours List for his services to drama.
- The one-man play "Guthrie on Guthrie" chronicles his experiences in starting the Stratford Festival in Canada in 1953
- Style is an alarming word to American actors. They think of it as something assumed, something fancy and affected, something connected with being more elegant and flossy than anyone has a right to be in private life.It is hard to convince them that style in acting, as in dress, is concerned with appropriateness, with suitability to environment, and does not necessarily involve a great deal of elaborate mannerisms and posturing.
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