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Ernest Thesiger Net Worth
How rich is Ernest Thesiger? For this question we spent 20 hours on research (Wikipedia, Youtube, we read books in libraries, etc) to review the post.
The main source of income: Actors
Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $90,2 Million.
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Ernest Thesiger information Birth date: January 15, 1879 Death date: 1961-01-14 Birth place: Chelsea, London, England, UK Height:6 (1.83 m) Profession:Actor Spouse:Janette Mary Fernie Ranken
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How tall is Ernest Thesiger – 1,71m.
How much weight is Ernest Thesiger – 57kg
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Biography,Early life and careerThe grandson of the 1st Lord Chelmsford, Thesiger was born in London, England and was the first cousin once removed of the explorer and author Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003), and the nephew of 2nd Lord Chelmsford, who, exactly a week after Ernests birth, famously led his troops in battle against — and suffered a defeat at the hands of — a Zulu army at the Battle of Isandlwana.Thesiger attended Marlborough College and the Slade School of Art with aspirations of becoming a painter, but quickly switched to drama, making his professional debut in a production of Colonel Smith in 1909.After the outbreak of World War I, on 31 August 1914 Thesiger volunteered as Rifleman No.2546 with the 2nd Battalion of the 9th London Regiment (Queen Victorias Rifles), T.F. at its Regimental Head Quarters in Londons West End. After training in England for 3 months he was sent to the Western Front in late 1914, and was wounded in the trenches on 1 January 1915, and medically evacuated back to England. At a dinner party shortly after his return, someone asked him what it had been like in France, to which he is supposed to have responded Oh, my dear, the noise! and the people!In 1917, he married Janette Mary Fernie Ranken (1877-1970), sister of his close friend and fellow Slade graduate William Bruce Ellis Ranken. In her Biography, of Thesigers friend, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Hilary Spurling suggests that Thesiger and Janette wed largely out of their mutual adoration of William, who shaved his head when he learned of the engagement. Another source states more explicitly that Thesiger made no secret of his homosexuality.Thesiger moved in several artistic, literary and theatrical circles. At various times, he frequented the studio of John Singer Sargent, befriended Mrs. Patrick Campbell, visited and corresponded with Percy Grainger and worked closely with George Bernard Shaw, who wrote the role of the Dauphin in Saint Joan for him. Somerset Maugham, on the other hand, responded to Thesigers inquiry as to why he wrote no parts for him with the quip, But I am always writing parts for you, Ernest. The trouble is that somebody called Gladys Cooper will insist on playing them.After the Great WarThesigers film debut was in 1916 in The Real Thing at Last, a spoof presenting Macbeth as it might be done by an American company, in which he did a drag turn as one of the Witches. Thesiger also played the First Witch in a 1941 production of Macbeth directed by John Gielgud. He performed more small roles in films during the silent era, but worked mainly on the stage.In 1925, Thesiger appeared in Noel Cowards On with the Dance, again in drag, and later played the Dauphin in Shaws Saint Joan. He wrote an autoBiography, Practically True, published in 1927, which covers his stage career. An unpublished memoir written near the end of his life is housed in the Ernest Thesiger Collection at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection.Work with James WhaleWhen he appeared in a Christmas production of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1919, Thesiger met and befriended James Whale. After Whale had moved to Hollywood and found success with the films Journeys End (1930) and Frankenstein (1931), the director was commissioned to direct the screen adaptation of J. B. Priestleys Benighted as The Old Dark House (1932), starring Charles Laughton in his first American film, together with Boris Karloff and Raymond Massey. Whale immediately cast Thesiger in the film as Horace Femm, launching his Hollywood career. The following year Thesiger appeared (as a Scottish butler) with Karloff in a British film The Ghoul.When Whale agreed to direct Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, he insisted on casting Thesiger as Dr. Septimus Pretorius, instead of the studios choice of Claude Rains. Partly inspired by Mary Shelleys friend John Polidori and largely based on the Renaissance physician and botanist Paracelsus, it became Thesigers most famous role, in which he gives a fey, flamboyant performance as Baron Frankensteins mentor.Arriving in the United States for the filming of Bride of Frankenstein, Thesiger immediately set up a display in his hotel suite of all his needlework, each with a price tag, and during the making of the film he would work on needlework, one of his hobbies.After BrideOriginally cast to play the luddite sculptor Theotocopolous in H.G. Wellss Things to Come (1936), Thesigers performance was deemed unsuitable by the author, and so was replaced by Cedric Hardwicke, although he was retained on the parallel production of Wellss The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Around this same time Thesiger published a book, Adventures in Embroidery, about needlework, which was his expert hobby.The remainder of Thesigers career was centered on the theatrical stage, though he did appear in supporting roles in films produced in Britain, prominent among which is The Man in the White Suit (1951), starring Alec Guinness. He plays Sir John, the most powerful, the richest, and the oldest of the industrialists (jointly with the trade unions) trying to suppress Guinnesss invention of a fabric that never wears out and never gets dirty.Thesiger made several appearances on Broadway, notably as Jacques to Katharine Hepburns Rosalind in the longest-running production of As You Like It ever produced on Broadway. Later films included The Horses Mouth (1958) with Alec Guinness, Sons and Lovers (1960), and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, with Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty (1961). That same year he made his final stage appearance—a mere week before his death—in The Last Joke, with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.Later lifeIn 1960, Thesiger was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). His last film appearance was a small role in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1962). Shortly after completing it, Thesiger died in his sleep from natural causes on the eve of his 82nd birthday, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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