Died 1985 | ||
Richard Findlater (1921–1985) was a British theatre critic and biographer.
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Early life
He was born Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, but worked under the pen-name Richard Findlater.
Career
Findlater was arts editor for The Observer, and became assistant editor in 1963.
He wrote 18 books, including biographies of Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Lillian Baylis and Joseph Grimaldi; the definitive history of stage censorship, Banned; and an account of contemporary British theatre, The Unholy Trade.
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Personal life
From 1948 to 1962, he was married to the journalist and show business 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". She subsequently married jazz bandleader Tommy Watt, with whom she had a son, the musician Ben Watt.