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Albert Edward Anson (14 September 1879 – 25 June 1936) was a British stage and screen actor. Born in London, he made his first appearance onstage in 1895. He left the stage briefly to pursue a degree in engineering and returned to appear with Beerbohm Tree's company in 1904. He gained fame as a Shakespearian actor appearing on London and New York stages. In 1931, Anson made his screen debut in John Ford's film ''Arrowsmith''. Director Frank Capra cast him to play the "High Lama" in his film ''Lost Horizon'', but Anson died before filming so the role was given to Sam Jaffe. Anson died in Monrovia, California. ==Stage career== His father was the Shakespearean and character actor George W. Anson.〔 His stage debut was at the Court Theatre in London on 27 April 1895. In 1904 (like his father at around this time) he joined Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company. In 1905 he played Brabantio in ''Othello'', his first major role.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A. E. Anson )〕 In 1905 he toured the USA: he appeared in the play ''The Toast of the Town'' by Clyde Fitch, with Viola Allen and Hassard Short.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Reading Times, 7 November 1905 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Three photographs of Clyde Fitch's play The Toast of the Town )〕 From 1902 until 1930 he appeared in many productions in various theatres in New York, including several plays of Shakespeare: he was in ''Julius Caesar'' in 1902; later he played Octavian in ''Antony and Cleopatra'' in 1909, and Master Ford in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' in 1910.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A. E. Anson )〕 This last play, produced by the ''New Theatre Company'' which included many English actors, came in December 1910 to Toronto, where a reviewer wrote, "Mr. Anson was especially fine as the jealous husband Ford. Indeed his was a performance that deepened the significance of the play." He was in ''The Witness for the Defence'' by A. E. W. Mason, which ran for 64 performances at the Empire Theatre, opening in December 1911.〔 This came to Toronto, where the same reviewer wrote, "Mr. A. E. Anson... is known to be one of the most eloquent actors of the day – a man much of the type of Sir George Alexander, the possessor of a beautiful voice and the bearing of a person of distinction as he is supposed to be in the play." The play ''Romance'' by Edward Sheldon, in which Anson played Cornelius van Tuyl, ran for 160 performances in 1913 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, and was revived in 1921 at the Playhouse Theatre where it ran for 106 performances.〔 He was in the play ''White Cargo'', which ran for 257 performances at the Greenwich Village Theatre, opening in November 1923, Anson playing Witzel. The play was written and staged by Leon Gordon. (It was made into a film in 1942.)〔 He married twice: to actress Deirdre Doyle, they were later divorced; secondly to actress Mary Malleson, with whom he appeared in New York in ''The Barton Mystery'' by Walter C. Hackett in 1917; he also directed this play. During the 1920s he was engaged to, but did not marry, the actress Marjorie Rambeau with whom he was in two New York productions: ''As You Like It'' in 1923, and ''The Road Together'' (which closed after one performance) by George Middleton in 1924.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Ogden Standard-Examiner, 21 March 1926 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Edward Anson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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