Back On The Boards
TJRITONS who have “oohed” actor Peter O’Toole in swashbuckling movie roles recently encountered him as a seedy, has-been author on the boards at London’s Piccadilly Theatre.
And Albert Finney, vividly remembered as “Tom Jones” in the movies, has turned up at the National Theatre playing leading, but not star roles. Both are participating in a trend. The best young English actors now jump at stage plays that offer them something more meaty—but less lucrative—than starring film roles.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 12
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