Laurier Lister

George Laurier Lister, OBE (22 April 1907 – 30 September 1986) was an English theatre writer, actor, director and producer, best known for a series of revues in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Biography

Laurier Lister was born in Sanderstead, Croydon, Surrey.[1] In the 1930s he acted in a number of plays in the West End, including Death Takes a Holiday (1931), The Long Christmas Dinner (1933), Twelfth Night (1933), Cabbages and Kings (1933), Hervey House (1934), A Kiss for Cinderella (1937), and People of Our Class (1938). He also wrote, with Hilda Vaughan, She Too Was Young, a romantic comedy set in Wales in the 1870s, which had 110 performances in London in 1938.[2]

Lister served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. After the war, he became involved as a theatre director in London.[3] His series of successful revues, either as director or producer, included Tuppence Coloured (1947), Oranges and Lemons (1949 – the first in an eight-year series of writing and singing appearances by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann),[4] Penny Plain (1951), Airs on a Shoestring (1953), Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (1954), and From Here and There (1955).[5]

In 1965 he became the first Director of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford,[6] and was awarded the OBE in 1976.[7]

Personal life

Lister had a lengthy personal relationship with the Northern Irish actor Max Adrian (1903–1973), with whom he often worked.[3][8] Lister died in 1986, aged 79.

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References
  1. IMDb [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6735159/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1930–1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
  3. Ray Diffen, Ray Diffen: Stage Clothes, Xlibris Corporation, 2011, pp. 15–19.
  4. The Donald Swann website Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  5. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1950–1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
  6. History, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Retrieved 29 March 2017
  7. Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1976
  8. Stephen Rutledge, "BornThisDay: Actor, Max Adrian", World of Wonder. Retrieved 29 March 2017.


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