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Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role. He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. H…
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entertainment · English actor (1908–1990) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · singer · director · musician · also Rex Harrison, Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison, Reginald Carey Harrison, Sir Reginald Harrison, Sir Reginald Carey Harrison, Sir Rex Harrison
Born 5 March 1908 · Died 2 June 1990 · Q181887
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2026· 2 entries
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2024· 1 entry
Moviefone: Rex Harrison at the N.F.T.
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2019· 1 entry
That a mask of Harrison was used by multiple CIA agents for covert work
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “My Fair Lady”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “My Fair Lady (Original 1956 Broadway Cast)”.
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1990· 1 entry
Died 1990-06-02.
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1989· 1 entry
Appeared with Edward Fox in The Admirable Crichton in London
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1984· 1 entry
For his performance as Captain Shotover in the revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House
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1983· 1 entry
Harrison continued to act on Broadway and the West End until the end of his life, despite suffering from glaucoma, painful teeth, and a failing memory
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1980· 2 entries
In 1980, despite his having married twice since their divorce, Roberts made a final attempt to win Harrison back, which proved to be futile; she took her own life that same year.
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Despite his having married twice since their divorce, Roberts made a final attempt to win Harrison back, which proved to be futile; she took her own life that same year
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1978· 1 entry
Married Mercia Ryhiner Schwob Tinker, his sixth and final wife
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1975· 1 entry
Harrison released his first autobiography
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for My Fair Lady (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Harrison reprised his 1956 stage performance as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1957).
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Harrison and Palmer divorced in 1957 and he married Kendall the same year.
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1955· 1 entry
Harrison starred opposite Kay Kendall in The Constant Husband, and they had an affair
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1949).
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1948· 2 entries
Landis took her own life in 1948 after spending the evening with Harrison.
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After spending the evening with Harrison
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1947· 1 entry
While married to Palmer, Harrison began an affair with actress Carole Landis
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1942· 1 entry
Divorced his first wife, Noel Margery Colette Thomas, and married actress Lilli Palmer the next year; they later appeared together in numerous plays and films, including The Four Poster
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1936· 1 entry
Appearing in the Terence Rattigan play French Without Tears, in what was his breakthrough role
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1924· 1 entry
In Thirty Minutes in a Street at the Liverpool Playhouse, when he was 16 years old
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-03-05.
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