Richard Findlater
Richard Findlater (1921–1985) was a British theatre critic and biographer.
Early life
[edit | edit source]He was born Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, but worked under the pen-name Richard Findlater.[1][2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Findlater was arts editor for The Observer, and became assistant editor in 1963.[2][3]
He wrote 18 books, including biographies of Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Lillian Baylis and Joseph Grimaldi; a history of stage censorship, Banned; and an account of contemporary British theatre, The Unholy Trade.[2]
Publications
[edit | edit source]- Grimaldi: King of Clowns, 1955.
- Michael Redgrave, Mask or Face, 1958
- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, MacGibbon & Kee, 1968
- Comic Cuts: A Bedside Sampler Of Censorship In Action Richard Findlater (ed) (Andre Deutsch, 1970) (illustrated by Willie Rushton)
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Personal life
[edit | edit source]From 1948 to 1962, he was married to the journalist and showbusiness interviewer Romany Bain, with whom he had four children. One of their sons became an Anglican priest-clown known as Roly Bain or "Holy Roly".[4]
References
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