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George Arliss
George Arliss was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won in the Best Actor category for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor of any category to win the honour. He specialized in succes…
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entertainment · English actor, author and playwright (1868–1946) · writer · playwright · film director · autobiographer · screenwriter · stage actor · film actor · actor · filmmaker · director · also George Arliss, George Augustus Andrews, Arliss
Born 10 April 1868 · Died 5 February 1946 · Q182229
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 14,129 Wikipedia readers in one day, 129.6× the usual 109, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Career Added link to the play "Heimat" aka "Magda".
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2022· 1 entry
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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1946· 1 entry
Died 1946-02-05.
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1934· 1 entry
British film goers named Arliss their favourite male star
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Disraeli (1930).
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1929· 1 entry
(and won the Best Actor Academy Award for Disraeli), converting successfully at the age of 61 from a star of the legitimate theatre, and then silent films, to sound films
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1919· 1 entry
Outlined his plan for a nonprofit called the Theatre Annex, which would allow new plays to be tested under special conditions
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1911· 1 entry
To write a play specifically tailored for Arliss, and the actor toured in Disraeli for five years, eventually becoming closely identified with the 19th-century British prime minister
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1887· 1 entry
And by 1900 was playing London's West End in supporting roles
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-04-10.
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