"Garric, was in Bordeaux in 1685 when the Edict of Nantes was abolished, revoking the rights of Protestants in France. Garric fled to London and his son, Peter, who was an infant at the time, was later smuggled out by a nurse when he was deemed old enough to make the journey. David Garric became a British subject upon his arrival in Britain, and Anglicised the name to Garrick. Some time after David Garrick's birth the family moved to Lichfield, home to Garrick's mother. His father, a captain in the army, was a recruiting officer stationed in Gibraltar through most"
"Richard Garrick Richard Garrick (December 27, 1878 – August 21, 1962) was an Irish-born American actor and director. Richard Garrick was born Richard Thomas O'Brien in the townland of Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland. His father, James E. O'Brien, was a master tailor in that town, counting among his clients Lord Waterford as well as other nobility and landed gentry. In 1882, James left Portlaw for the United States. He landed in the town of North Adams, Massachusetts, where there were cotton mills and the need for a clothesmaker. Two years later, his wife Johanna and children followed. In 1898, Richard"
"but his work in bringing Shakespeare to contemporary audiences is notable. In addition, he adapted many older plays in the repertoire that might have been forgotten. These included many plays of the Restoration era. Indeed, while influencing the theatre towards a better standard he also gained a better reputation for theatre people. This accomplishment led Samuel Johnson to remark that ""his profession made him rich and he made his profession respectable."" Garrick was born at the Angel Inn, Widemarsh Street, Hereford in 1717 into a family with French Huguenot roots in the Languedoc region of Southern France. His grandfather, David"
"Garrick Theatre fire A fire killed eight young girls at the Garrick Theatre, Hereford, England, in 1916. The theatre was built in 1882 and renamed in 1909 after David Garrick, the actor and theatrical manager, who was born in Hereford in 1717. In 1916, during World War I, a fund-raising concert was held ""for the benefit of the Herefords and Shropshires"" (two local county regiments, the former actually being part of The Worcestershire Regiment; the latter the King's Shropshire Light Infantry) at the Garrick Theatre, Hereford. One of the turns was provided by more than forty local school-children, wearing snow"
"of David Garrick. Born in Russell Court, Covent Garden, London as the illegitimate son of composer Charles Dibdin and the actress Harriett Pitt, Dibdin was named after his father's friend and librettist Isaac Bickerstaffe and their character Mungo in an afterpiece entitled ""The Padlock"". Dibdin made his theatrical debut opposite his younger brother Thomas John Dibdin (b. 1771) in his godfather David Garrick's ""The Jubilee"" in 1775. Soon after this performance, his parents separated, and Dibdin changed his surname to his mother's maiden name, Pitt. Dibdin's mother was initially against her son following a theatrical career and so arranged for"
"David Garrick (play) David Garrick is a comic play written in 1864 by Thomas William Robertson about the famous 18th-century actor and theatre manager, David Garrick. The play premiered at the Prince of Wales Theater in Birmingham, where it was successful enough to be moved to the Haymarket Theatre in London, on 30 April 1864. It was a major success for the actor Edward Askew Sothern, who played the title role, but came later to be associated with the actor Charles Wyndham. The play was designed as a star vehicle, since the principal actor has to portray David Garrick himself"
"in 1740s London. A young woman, Ada, has developed a crush on the actor David Garrick so strong that she refuses to accept a marriage arranged by her father, Mr. Ingot. Ingot contrives to meet with Garrick and initially tries to persuade him to leave the country or give up acting, but when Garrick learns the reason, he assures Ingot that he will be able to cure Ada of her attraction and asks Ingot to arrange a meeting with her. Garrick is sympathetic to Ada's plight because he himself has fallen in love with a girl he doesn't know, but"
"John Garrick John Garrick (born Reginald Dandy; 31 August 1902 in Brighton, England – 22 October 1966 in San Francisco, California) was a British film actor. He made his first stage appearance at the age of ten in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He started off his working career in a bank but later organised a vaudeville act. He played the leading role in ""Rose Marie"" in Australia for 2 years then went to America to play on stage and screen, his first being a Fox picture where he played a stage Prince in ""Married in Hollywood"" in 1929. In 1932,"
"becomes Alderman Trawley, Richard Chivy becomes Robert Raubreyne, ""Sawney"" Smith becomes ""Sammy"" Smith, and Ada Ingot becomes Ada Trawley. David Garrick (play) David Garrick is a comic play written in 1864 by Thomas William Robertson about the famous 18th-century actor and theatre manager, David Garrick. The play premiered at the Prince of Wales Theater in Birmingham, where it was successful enough to be moved to the Haymarket Theatre in London, on 30 April 1864. It was a major success for the actor Edward Askew Sothern, who played the title role, but came later to be associated with the actor Charles"
"he returned to England and starred in numerous English films. John Garrick John Garrick (born Reginald Dandy; 31 August 1902 in Brighton, England – 22 October 1966 in San Francisco, California) was a British film actor. He made his first stage appearance at the age of ten in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He started off his working career in a bank but later organised a vaudeville act. He played the leading role in ""Rose Marie"" in Australia for 2 years then went to America to play on stage and screen, his first being a Fox picture where he played a"
"Blackrock with a purpose built bronze casting foundry in a house called Clonlea. Ryan Tubridy was born in Blackrock in 1973 and went to Blackrock College. He is an RTÉ presenter of radio and television shows and the current host of the long-running chat show ""The Late Late Show"". Eoin Dillon, Uilleann piper, of Kila, was brought up in the Blackrock area and lived on Idrone Terrace. Living in Blackrock influenced many of his contemporary tunes. Actor Frank Kelly, best known for playing Father Jack on the television comedy series ""Father Ted"", was born and lived for most of his"
"David Garrick (singer) David Garrick (12 September 1945 – 23 August 2013) was an English singer who was best known for his 1966 pop hit single, ""Dear Mrs. Applebee"". Born Philip Darryl Core, as a teenager Garrick sang in a Liverpool church choir, but became interested in opera and succeeded in obtaining a scholarship to train as an opera singer in Milan, Italy. He returned to Liverpool after two years, where he was frequently found at the famous Cavern Club and once improvised an opera excerpt of Pagliacci, rendering him the surname ""The Opera Singer"" at the club. The Kinks'"
"Garrick Theatre The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick. It opened in 1889 with ""The Profligate"", a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, and another Pinero play, ""The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith"", was an early success at the theatre. In its early years, the Garrick appears to have specialised in the performance of melodrama. The theatre later became associated with comedies, including ""No Sex Please, We're British"", which played for four years from 1982 to 1986. There was previously another theatre that was sometimes"
"David Garrick David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson. He appeared in a number of amateur theatricals, and with his appearance in the title role of Shakespeare's ""Richard III"", audiences and managers began to take notice. Impressed by his portrayals of Richard III and a number of other roles, Charles Fleetwood engaged Garrick for a season at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He remained with the Drury"
"in 1992, but reopened the same year."" Guy Crick (1901–1964) was born in Hobart and was educated in Melbourne. He attended the Technical College in Melbourne part-time for four years, then returned to Hobart in the early 1920s where he subsequently married. In the middle of the decade he moved to Sydney and managed to gain employment in the office of Henry Eli White, one of the most prolific and influential cinema and theatre designers in Australia during the 1920s. Here he would have become familiar with the Union Theatres (later Greater Union) and established a relationship with the company"
"in 1737, and Fleetwood's gambling problems entangled the theatre in his own financial difficulties. It was during this period that actor Charles Macklin (a native of Inishowen in County Donegal in Ulster) rose to fame, propelled by a singular performance as Shylock in an early 1741 production of ""The Merchant of Venice"", in which he introduced a realistic, naturalistic style of acting, abandoning the artificial bombast typical to dramatic roles prior. In 1747, Fleetwood's playhouse patent expired. The theatre and a patent renewal were purchased by actor David Garrick (who had trained under Macklin earlier) and partner James Lacy. Garrick"
"David Garrick (1913 film) David Garrick is a 1913 British black-and-white silent film based on the life of British actor David Garrick. The film starred Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss and was based on the 1864 play ""David Garrick"" by T. W. Robertson, adapted by Max Pemberton. The film was directed by Leedham Bantock. The film is set in London in the 1740s where Ada Ingot (Ellaline Terriss), a young woman, is infatuated with the actor David Garrick (Seymour Hicks). Her love for Garrick is so strong that she refuses to accept a marriage arranged by her father, Mr. Ingot"
"James Francis Garrick Sir James Francis Garrick , (10 January 1836 – 12 January 1907) was a politician and agent-general from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In his later years, he lived in London. Garrick was the second oldest of ten children of James Francis Garrick (b. 1803 in Deptford, Kent, England; d. 1874 in Sydney) and Catherine Eliza Garrick (""née"" Branson, b. 1811 in Gibraltar; d. 1900 in Woollahra, Australia). His parents were married on 10 June 1832 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Surrey, England. They subsequently emigrated to Sydney to manage a flour milling business. Garrick was born in Sydney, New South"
"Island, Derrick was hit by five bullets from a Japanese machine gun. He died from his wounds on 24 May 1945. Derrick was born in the Adelaide suburb of Medindie, South Australia, on 20 March 1914 to David Derrick, a labourer from Ireland, and his Australian wife, Ada (née Whitcombe). The Derricks were poor, and Tom often walked barefoot to attend Sturt Street Public School and later Le Fevre Peninsula School. In 1928, aged fourteen, Derrick left school and found work in a bakery. By this time, he had developed a keen interest in sports, particularly cricket, Australian Rules Football,"
"Stockport's twin town in Germany, Heilbronn. Since the bar refurbishment the Garrick Studio has produced a wider variety of plays, presenting intimate, exciting and sometimes controversial plays by playwrights such as David Mamet, David Harrower, Jean-Paul Sartre, Yasmina Reza, Andrew Bovell, John Godber, Laura Wade, Dennis Kelly, Joe Penhall and Simon Stephens. It also enabled the theatre to encourage the development of new writing for the stage in Stockport. The Youth Theatre has flourished in the past few years, presenting main stage productions and showcase performances each year. In recent years, Garrick Youth has grown from 1 weekly group of"
"actor James de Castro he was born in Frankfurt-on-Main and was invited to London by 'the German Jews', where 'a very rich Jew, Mr. Franks, instantly patronised him'. His voice having been brought to the attention of the aristocracy and the actor David Garrick, he was given permission by the synagogue elders to appear on stage (where he adopted the name Michael Leoni), after which he returned to the synagogue and developed thenceforth a dual career. It is difficult, however, to reconcile this narrative with his known dates. The first record of him is in October 1760 where Garrick refers"
"Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is a small garden folly erected in 1756 on the north bank of the River Thames at Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Grade I listed, it was built by the actor David Garrick to honour the playwright William Shakespeare, whose plays Garrick performed to great acclaim throughout his career. During his lifetime Garrick used it to house his extensive collection of Shakespearean relics and for entertaining his family and guests. It passed through a succession of owners until coming into public ownership in the 20th century, but fell"
"which was released on Prestige Records. He continued throughout the 1990s to perform at festivals in Germany, where he had a loyal following. Garrick died in Wirral, England, on 23 August 2013, aged 67. David Garrick (singer) David Garrick (12 September 1945 – 23 August 2013) was an English singer who was best known for his 1966 pop hit single, ""Dear Mrs. Applebee"". Born Philip Darryl Core, as a teenager Garrick sang in a Liverpool church choir, but became interested in opera and succeeded in obtaining a scholarship to train as an opera singer in Milan, Italy. He returned to"
"one other municipal authority: those of the City of London. Nell Gwynne, actress and mistress of King Charles II, is said to have been born in Hereford in 1650 (although other towns and cities, notably Oxford, also claim her as their own); Gwynn Street is named after her. Another famous actor born in Hereford is David Garrick (1717–1779). The Bishop's Palace next to the Cathedral was built in 1204 and continually used to the present day. Hereford Cathedral School is also one of the oldest schools in England. The Harold Street Barracks were completed in 1856. During World War I,"
"and the five children born of the marriage by starting a school for young girls in Little Chelsea, London, (where Robinson taught by her 14th birthday). However, during one of his brief returns to the family, Captain Darby had the school closed (which he was entitled to do by English law). Darby died in the Russian naval service in 1785. Robinson, who at one point attended a school run by the social reformer Hannah More, came to the attention of actor David Garrick. Hester Darby encouraged her daughter to accept the proposal of an articled clerk, Thomas Robinson, who claimed"
"David Paisley David Paisley (born 2 February 1979) is a Scottish actor, especially well known for roles as midwife Ben Saunders in ""Holby City"", Ryan Taylor in ""Tinsel Town"" and most recently Rory Murdoch in ""River City"". Some of his characters have been controversial due to their sexual orientation. Paisley grew up in Glen Village near Falkirk. At 15 he went to a gay youth group where he eventually met his first boyfriend. At 17, he went to Glasgow University to study physics, during which time he appeared in a community workshop (part of theatre company in Glasgow) and then"
"By the end of the 18th century, one out of every six plays performed in London was by Shakespeare. The actor, director, and producer David Garrick was a key figure in Shakespeare's theatrical renaissance. His reportedly superb acting, unrivalled productions, numerous and important Shakespearean portraits, and his spectacular 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee helped promote Shakespeare as a marketable product and the national playwright. Garrick's Drury Lane theatre was the centre of the Shakespeare mania which swept the nation. The visual arts also played a significant role in expanding Shakespeare's popular appeal. In particular, the conversation pieces designed chiefly for homes generated"
"John Donald Carrick John Donald Carrick (1787–1837) was a Scottish journalist and songwriter. Carrick was born in Glasgow in April 1787; his father was originally from Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire. He was placed in the office of Nicholson, a Glasgow architect, while still young, leaving about 1805 for a clerkship in a counting-house. In 1807 he ran away, and walked to London, where a Scottish tradesman gave him a trial as shopboy. In 1809 Carrick found work with Spode & Co., potters in Staffordshire, who had warehouses in London; and he acquired sufficient knowledge of the business to return to Glasgow,"
"CBC production), ""Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"" (a 2011 CBC production), ""The Music Man"", ""Ice Princess"", ""The Town Christmas Forgot"" and ""A History of Violence"" were filmed in the town. In the latter film, Millbrook was depicted as the fictional town of Millbrook, Indiana. The political cartoonist Sam Hunter was born and raised in Millbrook, along with award-winning filmmaker Jared Raab, esteemed marine biologist Dustin Raab, and Juno Award winner singer/songwriter Serena Ryder. Cavan Monaghan Cavan Monaghan (known as Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan until 2007) is a township in Peterborough County in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, southwest of the city of Peterborough."
"of the brightest actors and actresses in stage and film history, including James Arness, Ed Begley, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, James Dean, Julie Harris, Brian Keith, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Victor Mature, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Patricia Neal, Donald O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jean Simmons, Richard Todd, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Dennis Weaver and Richard Widmark. Richard Garrick died on August 21, 1962, in Los Angeles and is buried as a U.S. veteran at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California. Richard Garrick Richard Garrick (December 27, 1878 –"
"of war on everyday life. ""Art and Design in British Films"" followed in 1948. He wrote a biography of his father in 1968, ""Gordon Craig: the story of his life"", which includes some history of his famous family and became a best seller. Edward Carrick Edward Carrick (born Edward Anthony Craig; 3 January 1905 – 21 January 1998) was an English art designer for film, an author and illustrator. Carrick was born in London. His father was Edward Gordon Craig, the theatre practitioner and stage designer, and his mother was the violinist Elena Fortuna Meo (1879–1957), one of his father's"
"the geographical South Pole. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the crime writer Agatha Christie, the Irish writer William Trevor, and the poet Ted Hughes lived in Devon. The painter and founder of the Royal Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was born in Devon. Chris Dawson, the billionaire owner of retailer The Range was born in Devon, where his business retains its head office in Plymouth. The actor Matthew Goode was raised in Devon, and Bradley James, also an actor, was born there. The singer Joss Stone was brought up in Devon and frontman Chris Martin from the British rock group Coldplay"
"married a daughter of Smith's). Smith died at Bury St Edmunds on 13 September 1819 in his 89th year. There his elegant figure was remembered as always wearing a white hat edged with green, a blue coat, figured waistcoat, fustian coloured breeches, and gaiters to match, and carrying a gold-headed cane. He was loved by the youngsters of Bury whom he often obliged with sweets from the candy-shop. William 'Gentleman' Smith William Smith (1730 – 13 September 1819), known as ""Gentleman Smith"", was a celebrated English actor of the 18th century who worked with David Garrick, and was the original"