Geoffrey Kendal
About
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Also Known As
Geoffrey Bragg
Birth Place
Cumbria, England, GB
Born
September 07, 1909
Died
May 14, 1998
Family & Companions
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Laura Kendal
Wife
Actor. Married in 1933; predeceased him.
Biography
Life Events
1921
Decided at age 12 to become an actor after Sir Frank Benson's acting company visited his town (date approximate)
1933
Married Laura Liddell beginning their long career together as actors, running their own acting company
1953
Returned to India with a large company sponsored by Lady Edwina Mountbatten and toured the East for nearly twenty years
1965
Starred along with his wife and daughters in the Merchant-Ivory film "Shakespeare Wallah" in which an English theatre company touring in India loses popularity due to modernization and the rise of Indian film; rooted in Kendal's own experience, but presented with a pessimism he did not share
Family
Jennifer Kendal
Daughter
Actor. Married Shashi Kapoor; predeceased her father.
Felicity Kendal
Daughter
Actor. Survived him.
Companions
Laura Kendal
Wife
Actor. Married in 1933; predeceased him.
