Name Allan Aynesworth Role Actor | Ex-spouse Edith Margaret Le Gros | |
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Full Name Edward Abbot-Anderson Born 14 April 1864 ( 1864-04-14 ) Sandhurst, Berkshire, United Kingdom Died August 22, 1959, Surrey, United Kingdom Movies The Last Days of Dolwyn, Love, Life and Laughter, Young Man's Fancy, The Calendar, Leave It to Smith Siblings Sir Maurice Abbot-Anderson Similar People George Alexander, Emlyn Williams, Oscar Wilde, Maurice Elvey, Tom Walls | ||
Allan (also Alan) Aynesworth (14 April 1864, Sandhurst, Berkshire – 22 August 1959, Camberley, Surrey) is the stage name of a British actor whose career spanned almost six decades, including a lead part in the 1895 world premiere of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and his final role as the elderly Lord Lancaster in the movie The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949). His birth name was Edward Abbot-Anderson.
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He has been variously billed as "Alan Aynesworth," "Allan Aynesworth" and "Allan Aynsworth." He performed the role of Algernon Moncrieff in the premiere production of The Importance of Being Earnest, later telling Oscar Wilde's biographer Hesketh Pearson that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph than [that] first night."
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John Gielgud, when asked who inspired him as a young actor, named Aynesworth as one of his inspirations.