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- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- John Shirley-Quirk was born on August 28, 1932 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Death in Venice (1981), God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985) and Owen Wingrave (1971). He was married to Teresa Perez, Sara Watkins and Patricia May Hastie. He died on April 7, 2014 in Winsley, Wiltshire, England, UK.
- SpousesTeresa Perez(March 16, 2009 - April 7, 2014) (his death)Sara Watkins(December 1981 - December 2, 1997) (her death, 3 children)Patricia May Hastie(1955 - February 21, 1981) (her death, 2 children)
- Bass-baritone.
- Now a teacher at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. This is a very highly looked at school for music. It is in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a voice teacher of many students and also, he teaches German pronunciation.
- After a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio in 1963, he was congratulated by a stranger from the audience. The stranger was composer Benjamin Britten. Britten had been invited to hear him, and this was effectively his audition for joining the English Opera Group.
- He earned a chemistry degree at Liverpool University in 1952. After national service in the RAF, he taught chemistry at a technical college in London. He studied singing, first with Austen Carnegie, later with Roy Henderson. In 1961 he became a vicar choral at St Paul's Cathedral.
- In 1962, he made his operatic debut at Glyndebourne as the Doctor in "Pelléas et Mélisande".
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