Owen Nares

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Owen Nares

Owen Nares
Born Owen Ramsay Nares
(1888-08-11)11 August 1888
Maiden Erlegh, Berkshire, England, UK
Died 30 July 1943(1943-07-30) (aged 54)
Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales, UK
Years active 1913-1941
Spouse(s) Marie Pollini (1910-1943); 2 sons

Owen Ramsay Nares (born 11 August 1888, Maiden Erlegh, Berkshire, England – died 30 July 1943, Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales) had a long stage and film career. Besides his acting career, he was the author of Myself, and Some Others (1925).

Early life

Educated at Reading School, Nares was encouraged by his mother to become an actor, and in 1908 he received his training from actress Rosina Filippi. The following year, he was playing bit parts in West End productions, including the St. James’s Theatre and the Pinero’s Mid Channel. Over the next few years, as his reputation grew, he performed with many of the outstanding actors of the era including Beerbohm Tree, Constance Collier and Marion Terry. [citation needed]

Career

In 1914, Nares appeared in Dandy Donovan, the first of the 25 silent films in which he appeared. The early 1920s was his golden period and he was the male lead opposite such actresses as Gladys Cooper, Fay Compton, Madge Titheradge and Daisy Burrell. His stage career also continued to flourish. [citation needed]

In 1915, he played Thomas Armstrong in Edward Sheldon's Romance at the Lyric Theatre, and in 1917, he starred with Lily Elsie at the Palace Theatre in the musical comedy, Pamela. He appeared opposite Meggie Albanesi in The First and the Last for a long-run during the 1920s. Nares continued to star in popular West End shows, almost without pause, until 1926, when he then took a break and set off with his own company for a tour of South Africa. [citation needed]

Later years

With the advent of talkies, his considerable stage experience meant that, in the early days, he was still much in demand and starred in four films. He was, however, too mature to be the handsome star he had been a decade earlier. In the last six films he made, he played supporting roles. In 1942, he appeared in a revival of Robert E. Sherwood’s The Petrified Forrest, and afterwards he went on tour with the play to Northern England and Wales. [citation needed]

Family

Nares married actress Marie Pollini in 1910; the couple had two sons, David and Geoffrey Nares.

Death

During tour through Wales he visited Brecon, and the Shoulder of Mutton (now the Sarah Siddons public house), the birthplace of actress Sarah Siddons. While he was in the very room where Siddons had been born, Nares had a heart attack and died shortly afterwards, aged 54, on 30 July 1943.

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