Max Adrian (Max Bor) by Cecil Beaton, 1949, National Portrait Gallery

Max Adrian was an acclaimed actor of the middle of the twentieth century. Born in County Fermanagh on 1 November 1903, he died 19 January 1973. He was born simply Max Bor, and is sometimes credited as Max Cavendish. At least three art galleries are named National Portrait Gallery: National Portrait Gallery, Australia National Portrait Gallery, London National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... County Fermanagh (Contae Fear Manach in Irish) is the westernmost of the six counties that form Northern Ireland. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Firstly a stage actor, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for some years. In the late 1960s, Max Adrian toured as George Bernard Shaw in the one-man presentation By George. The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company, one of the most influential in the country. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ...

His first film was in 1934. He appeared in the acclaimed films The Boy Friend (1971); The Devils (1971); The Music Lovers (1970); and was the Dauphin in the Laurence Olivier production of Henry V {1944). 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Boyfriend (or The Boy Friend) is a musical by Sandy Wilson, first performed in the West End in 1954. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Devils (film), the controversial 1971 Ken Russell film The English language title of Henri-Georges Clouzots film Les Diaboliques (1955) The Devils (band), the pop music project of Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The Music Lovers is a 1971 biopic of the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as conceived by maverick director Ken Russell. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Laurence Olivier, as photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989) was an English actor and director, esteemed by many as the greatest actor of the 20th century. ... See Henry V of England Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor Henry V (play) for the Shakespeare play about King Henry V of England Henry V (1946 movie) for the 1944 movie adaptation of the Shakespeare play (for other movie adaptations see previous entry) Henry V (1989 movie) This is a... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

His most notable television role was as Senator Ludicrus Sextus in the first season of Up Pompeii! (1969. Other roles included Fagin the 1962 dramatisation of Oliver Twist, and parts in Adam Adamant Lives!, and Perry Mason. Max Adrian also appeared in the Doctor Who who story The Myth Makers as King Priam, but had a very poor relationship with the star, William Hartnell, who disapproved of his homosexuality. Max Adrian's style of acting was very camp, something rare in the early days of film and television. Up Pompeii was a British television comedy series of 1970. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens, probably one of the best-known of all his works, along with A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations. ... Adam Adamant Lives! was a television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. The show was the BBCs attempt to repeat the success of ITVs The Avengers, with a comedy adventure theme. ... Perry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner and who was portrayed by Raymond Burr in a television series which ran on CBS from 1957 to 1966. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television on November 23, 1963. ... The Myth Makers is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from October 16 to November 6, 1965. ... William Hartnell as the First Doctor William Henry Hartnell (January 8, 1908–April 23, 1975), a British actor, was the first actor to play the lead role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966. ...