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Noel Coward (1899–1973)


Noel Coward virtually invented the concept of Englishness for the 20th century. An astounding polymath - dramatist, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter, and wit -- he was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it. He was indeed the first Brit pop star, the first ambassador of "cool Britannia." Even before his 1924 drugs-and-sex scandal of The Vortex... See full bio »

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(age 73) in Blue Harbor, Jamaica

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Filmography

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2008 Easy Virtue (play)
 
2003 Privatni zivoti (TV movie) (novel "Private Lives")
 
2000 Relative Values (play)
 
1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV series)
Shadow Play (1991) (writer)
Still Life (1991) (writer)
Ways and Means (1991) (writer)
Fumed Oak (1991) (writer)
Family Album (1991) (writer)
 
1991 Red Peppers (TV movie)
 
1987 Sidste akt (play)
 
1986 Quadrille (TV movie) (play)
 
1986 Földi kacaj (TV movie) (play)
 
1985 Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV movie) (story)
 
1985 Bon Voyage (TV movie) (story)
 
1985 Me and the Girls (TV movie) (story)
 
1985 What Mad Pursuit? (TV movie) (story)
 
1985 Mrs. Capper's Birthday (TV movie) (story)
 
1985 Star Quality (TV movie) (story)
 
1984 Hay Fever (TV movie) (play)
 
1983 La comedia (TV series)
Fácil virtud (1983) (play)
 
1968-1982 Estudio 1 (TV series)
Ángeles caídos (1982) (play)
Desnudo con violín (1980) (play)
Un espíritu burlón (1970) (play)
La encantadora familia Bliss (1968) (play "Hay Fever")
 
1981-1982 BBC2 Playhouse (TV series)
A Song at Twilight (1982) (writer)
Come Into the Garden, Maud (1982) (play)
The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe (1981) (play)
 
1981 Present Laughter (TV movie)
 
1980 The Marquise (TV movie) (play)
 
1968-1979 BBC Play of the Month (TV series)
Design for Living (1979) (play)
The Marquise (1969) (play)
Hay Fever (1968) (writer)
 
1977 Die Marquise (TV movie) (play)
 
1973-1976 Au théâtre ce soir (TV series)
Week-end (1976) (play "Hay Fever")
Le nu au tambour (1975) (play)
Jeux d'esprit (1974) (play)
Félicity (1973) (play)
 
1976 Private Lives (TV movie)
 
1974 Brief Encounter (TV movie) (play "Still Life")
 
1974 Fallen Angels (TV movie) (play)
 
1973 Play for Today (TV series)
Song at Twilight (1973) (writer)
 
1972 Joyeux chagrins (TV movie) (play)
 
1972 Amouren (TV movie)
 
1971 Temni hrast (TV movie) (novel)
 
1969 Red Peppers (TV movie)
 
1969 The Vortex (TV movie)
 
1969 The Wednesday Play (TV series)
The Vortex (1969) (by)
 
1969 Duett im Zwielicht (TV movie) (play "Duett im Zwielicht")
 
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe (1968) (writer)
Bon Voyage (1968) (writer)
Star Quality (1968) (story)
 
1968 The Jazz Age (TV series)
Post Mortem (1968) (writer)
 
1968 Weekend (TV movie) (play)
 
1968 Vaimoni kummittelee (TV movie) (play "Blithe Spirit")
 
1966-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV series)
Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) (story)
Pretty Polly (1966) (writer)
 
1968 Kratak susret (TV movie)
 
1968 Interlude (play "Still Life")
 
1967 A Matter of Innocence (story "Pretty Polly Barlow")
 
1959-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
Present Laughter (1967) (author)
A Choice of Coward #2: Blithe Spirit (1964) (play / writer)
A Choice of Coward #1: Present Laughter (1964) (as Noël Coward)
 
1967 Before the Fringe (TV series)
 
1966 Hooikoorts (TV movie) (play "Hay Fever")
 
1966 Blithe Spirit (TV movie) (play)
 
1966 Wechselkurs der Liebe (TV movie) (play "Relative Values")
 
1966 Oh, diese Geister (TV movie) (play "Blithe Spirit")
 
1966 Quadrille (TV movie) (play)
 
1966 Geisterkomödie (TV movie) (play)
 
1965 Südsee-Affaire (TV movie) (play "The South Sea Bubble")
 
1965 Geisterkomödie - Eine unwahrscheinliche Komödie (TV movie) (play "Blithe Spirit")
 
1964 A Choice of Coward (TV series)
Design for Living (1964)
The Vortex (1964)
Blithe Spirit (1964)
Present Laughter (1964)
 
1964 Teatterituokio (TV series)
Viisas tohvelisankari (1964) (writer)
 
1964 Amouren (TV movie) (play "Present Laughter")
 
1964 Markisinnan (TV movie) (play "The Marquise")
 
1963 Festival (TV series)
Fallen Angels (1963) (play)
 
1963 Möblemang i ek (TV movie) (play)
 
1960-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV series)
This Happy Breed (1962) (play)
 
1962 Geisterkomödie (TV movie) (play "Blithe Spirit")
 
1961 Quadrille (TV movie) (play)
 
1961 Zwischen den Zügen (TV movie) (play)
 
1961 Minkä minulle voitte (TV movie) (play "Present Laughter")
 
1961 Hooikoorts (TV movie) (play "Hay Fever")
 
1961 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV series)
Brief Encounter (1961) (play)
 
1960 Art Carney Special (TV series)
Three in One (1960) (play Red Peppers)
 
1959 Akt mit Geige (TV movie) (play)
 
1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV series)
Private Lives (1959) (play)
 
1959 Fim de Semana no Campo (TV series) (play)
 
1958 Red Peppers (TV movie)
 
1958 Yoka (TV movie) (texts)
 
1957 Weekend (TV movie) (play)
 
1952-1957 Grande Teatro Tupi (TV series)
Pancada de Amor (1957)
Breve Encontro (1956)
Espírito Travesso (1953) (play)
Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo (1952) (story)
 
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
This Happy Breed (1956) (adaptation / play)
 
1956 Det er så yndigt (TV movie) (play)
 
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV movie) (play)
 
1955 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV series)
Cavalcade (1955) (play)
 
1955 TV de Vanguarda (TV series)
Desencanto (1955)
 
1955 Zwischen den Zügen (TV movie) (play)
 
1954 Producers' Showcase (TV series)
Tonight at 8:30 (1954) (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play")
 
1952 Tonight at 8:30 (play "Tonight at 8: 30")
 
1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV series)
Still Life (1951) (play)
 
1950 The Astonished Heart (play)
 
1948 Blithe Spirit (TV movie)
 
1946 Blithe Spirit (TV movie) (play)
 
1945 Brief Encounter (play "Still Life" - uncredited)
 
1945 Blithe Spirit (play - uncredited / screenplay - uncredited)
 
1944 This Happy Breed (play - uncredited)
 
1942 In Which We Serve (by)
 
1942 We Were Dancing (play "Tonight at 8: 30")
 
1940 Bitter Sweet (original play)
 
1939 Private Lives (TV movie) (play)
 
1939 Hay Fever (TV movie) (play)
 
1939 The Young Idea (TV movie)
 
1938 Hay Fever (TV movie) (play)
 
1938 Red Peppers (TV movie)
 
1938 Hands Across the Sea (TV movie)
 
1937 Red Peppers (TV movie)
 
1936 The Terrible Lovers (play "Private Lives")
 
1933 Design for Living (play)
 
1933 Bitter Sweet (play and dialogue)
 
1933 Tonight Is Ours (play "The Queen Was In the Parlor")
 
1933 Cavalcade (play)
 
1931 Private Lives (play)
 
1928 The Vortex (play)
 
1928 Easy Virtue (adapted from the play by)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (41 titles)
2009 De wereld draait door (TV series)
Episode #4.174 (2009) (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited)
 
2009 The Inbetweeners (TV series)
Will's Birthday (2009) (writer: "Mad About the Boy")
 
2009 Cold Case (TV series)
Libertyville (2009) (music: "Never Again" - uncredited / lyrics: "Never Again" - uncredited)
 
2008 Easy Virtue (writer: "Mad About the Boy", "A Room with a View", "I'll See You Again", "Mad Dogs and Englishmen")
 
2007 Hitler: The Comedy Years (TV documentary) (writer: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans" / performer: "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans")
 
2006 A Good Year (writer: "A Room with a View" / performer: "A Room with a View")
 
2006 Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice (TV series)
Episode #1.1 (2006) (writer: "Mad About The Boy")
 
2004 Cap d'any a TV3 (TV special) (writer: "Mad About the Boy")
 
2004 Being Julia (writer: "Mad about the Boy")
 
2003 Bright Young Things (writer: "Nina" / performer: "Nina", "Twentieth Century Blues", "Dance, Little Lady", "The Party's Over Now")
 
2001 The Mystic Masseur (writer: "That's the End of the News")
 
1998 The Misadventures of Margaret (writer: "Something to Do with Spring" / performer: "Something to Do with Spring")
 
1997 Paradise Road (writer: "Mad About the Boy")
 
1996 James and the Giant Peach (writer: "Sail Away" / performer: "Sail Away")
 
1995 A Midwinter's Tale (writer: "Why Must The Show Go On")
 
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (writer: "I'll See You Again" 1929)
 
1989 Goldeneye (TV movie) (writer: "Poor Little Rich Girl" - uncredited, "Dance Little Lady" - uncredited)
 
1989 Ten Little Indians (performer: "Mad dogs and Englishmen")
 
1987 'Allo 'Allo! (TV series)
Camp Dance (1987) (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited)
 
1987 Fame (TV series)
Pros and Cons (1987) (writer: "What Ho, Mrs. Brisket", "Men About Town")
 
1984 Finders Keepers (writer: "Mad About the Boy" - uncredited)
 
1983 Better Late Than Never (music: "I WENT TO A MARVELLOUS PARTY" / lyrics: "I WENT TO A MARVELLOUS PARTY")
 
1980 Never Never Land ("ANY LITTLE FISH CAN SWIM")
 
1977-1978 The Muppet Show (TV series)
Leslie Uggams (1978) (writer: "Mad about the Boy" - uncredited)
Episode #2.16 (1977) (writer: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen")
 
1973 Lily (TV movie) (music: "Twentieth Century Blues" / lyrics: "Twentieth Century Blues")
 
1973 Colditz (TV series)
Gone Away: Part 2 - With the Wild Geese (1973) (writer: "A Room With a View" - uncredited)
 
1970 Dad's Army (TV series)
Absent Friends (1970) (writer: "A Room with a View " - uncredited)
 
1969 The Magic Christian ("Mad About the Boy")
 
1968 Star! (writer: "Forbidden Fruit", "Parisian Pierrot", "Someday I'll Find You", "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship")
 
1960 Surprise Package (performer: "Surprise Package")
 
1956 Hey, Jeannie! (TV series)
The Donut Machine (1956) (writer: "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" - uncredited)
 
1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
Together with Music (1955) (writer: "Together with Music" - uncredited, "Uncle Harry" - uncredited, "Nina" - uncredited, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" - uncredited, "Ninety Minutes Is a Long, Long Time" - uncredited, "I'll See You Again" - uncredited, "Dance Little Lady" - uncredited, "Poor Little Rich Girl" - uncredited, "Room With a View" - uncredited, "Someday I'll Find You" - uncredited, "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" - uncredited, "If Love Were All" - uncredited, "Play, Orchestra, Play" - uncredited, "World Weary" - uncredited, "What's Going to Happen to the Tots" - uncredited, "London Pride" - uncredited / performer: "Together with Music" - uncredited, "Uncle Harry" - uncredited, "Nina" - uncredited, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" - uncredited, "Ninety Minutes Is a Long, Long Time" - uncredited, "I'll See You Again" - uncredited, "Dance Little Lady" - uncredited, "Poor Little Rich Girl" - uncredited, "Room With a View" - uncredited, "Someday I'll Find You" - uncredited, "I'll Follow My Secret Heart" - uncredited, "If Love Were All" - uncredited, "Play, Orchestra, Play" - uncredited, "World Weary" - uncredited, "What's Going to Happen to the Tots" - uncredited, "Deep in the Heart of Texas" - uncredited, "Get Out Those Old Records" - uncredited, "They Didn't Believe Me" - uncredited, "'S Wonderful" - uncredited, "Time on My Hands" - uncredited, "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" - uncredited, "Anything Goes" - uncredited, "Dancing in the Dark" - uncredited, "Ballerina" - uncredited, "I Won't Dance" - uncredited, "Papa, Won't You Dance with Me?" - uncredited)
 
1954 Let's Make Up (writer: "Dance Little Lady" / as Noël Coward)
 
1952 Farlig kurva (writer: "I'll See You Again" - uncredited)
 
1952 Tonight at 8:30 (writer: "Men About Town", "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?")
 
1942 We Were Dancing (music: "We Were Dancing" - uncredited)
 
1940 Bitter Sweet (writer: "I'll See You Again" 1929 - uncredited, "Polka" 1929 - uncredited, "If You Could Only Come With Me" 1929 - uncredited, "What Is Love" 1929 - uncredited, "Kiss Me" 1929 - uncredited, "Tokay" 1929 - uncredited, "Love In Any Language" 1929 - uncredited, "Ladies Of The Town" 1929 - uncredited, "Zigeuner The Gypsy" 1929 - uncredited / music: "Dear Little Cafe" 1929 - uncredited / lyrics: "Dear Little Cafe" 1929 - uncredited)
 
1940 The Miracle of Sound (documentary short) (writer: "Dear Little Cafe" - uncredited)
 
1933 Bitter Sweet (music: "I'll See You Again", "If Love Were All" / lyrics: "I'll See You Again", "If Love Were All")
 
1933 Cavalcade (writer: "Girls of the C.I.V." 1931 - uncredited, "Mirabelle" 1931 - uncredited, "Twentieth Century Blues" 1931 - uncredited, "Lover of My Dreams" 1931 - uncredited)
 
1931 Private Lives (music: "Someday I'll Find You" 1931 - uncredited / lyrics: "Someday I'll Find You" 1931 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowActor (17 titles)
1969 The Italian Job
Mr. Bridger (as Noël Coward)
 
1968 Boom!
The Witch of Capri
 
1967 Androcles and the Lion (TV movie)
Caesar
 
1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing
Wilson (as Noël Coward)
 
1964 Ninety Years On (TV movie)
Narrator/Host
 
1964 Paris When It Sizzles
Alexander Meyerheim
 
1960 Surprise Package
King Pavel II
 
1959 Our Man in Havana
Hawthorne (as Noël Coward)
 
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days
Roland Hesketh-Baggott - London Employment Agency Manager
 
1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
Charles Condomine / Frank Gibbons
 
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV movie)
Charles Condomine
 
1950 The Astonished Heart
Dr. Christian Faber
 
1945 Blithe Spirit
Narrator (uncredited)
 
1936 Men Are Not Gods
Passer-by (uncredited)
 
1935 The Scoundrel
Anthony Mallare
 
1918 Hearts of the World
The Man with the Wheelbarrow/A Villager in the Streets
 
Show ShowComposer (8 titles)
1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV series)
Shadow Play (1991)
Still Life (1991)
Ways and Means (1991)
Fumed Oak (1991)
Family Album (1991)
 
1980 Song by Song (TV series)
By Noël Coward (1980)
 
1969 Marvelous Party! (TV movie)
 
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
Star Quality (1968)
 
Show ShowProducer (5 titles)
1963 The Guest (associate producer - uncredited)
 
1945 Brief Encounter (producer)
 
1945 Blithe Spirit (producer)
 
1944 This Happy Breed (producer)
 
1942 In Which We Serve (producer)
 
Show ShowDirector (3 titles)
1955-1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
This Happy Breed (1956)
Blithe Spirit (1956)
Together with Music (1955)
 
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV movie)
 
Show ShowMusic Department (4 titles)
1980 Song by Song (TV series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
By Noël Coward (1980) (lyrics)
 
1960 The Grass Is Greener (composer: original theme - uncredited)
 
1940 Bitter Sweet (music and lyrics by)
 
1933 Bitter Sweet (lyrics and music)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
1957 Witness for the Prosecution (dialogue director - uncredited)
 
1950 Golden Salamander (industry consultant - uncredited)
 
Show ShowSelf (13 titles)
1970 The Dick Cavett Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 1 June 1970 (1970) … Himself
 
1969-1970 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #2.186 (1970) … Himself
Episode #2.124 (1970) … Himself
Episode #2.77 (1969) … Himself
 
1970 The 24th Annual Tony Awards (TV special)
Himself - Winner: Honorary Award
 
1969-1970 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
Himself
Noel Coward (1969) … Himself
 
1966 The Eamonn Andrews Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #2.34 (1966) … Himself
 
1964 A Choice of Coward (TV series)
Himself - Presenter
Design for Living (1964) … Himself - Presenter
The Vortex (1964) … Himself - Presenter
Blithe Spirit (1964) … Himself - Presenter
Present Laughter (1964) … Himself - Presenter
 
1964 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
Himself - Presenter
A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) … Himself - Presenter
A Choice of Coward #3: The Vortex (1964) … Himself - Presenter
A Choice of Coward #2: Blithe Spirit (1964) … Himself - Presenter
A Choice of Coward #1: Present Laughter (1964) … Himself - Presenter
 
1959-1964 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 12 January 1964 (1964) … Himself - Mystery Guest
Episode dated 1 March 1959 (1959) … Himself - Mystery Guest
 
1959 Small World (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.25 (1959) … Himself
Episode #1.24 (1959) … Himself
 
1956-1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #11.11 (1957) … Himself
Episode #9.29 (1956) … Himself
 
1956 Person to Person (TV series documentary)
Himself
Episode #3.35 (1956) … Himself
 
1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV series)
Himself
Together with Music (1955) … Himself
 
1944 Le journal de la resistance (documentary short)
Himself - Narrator (English version)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (13 titles)
2011 Entertaining the Troops (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Time to Remember (TV series documentary)
 
2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2007 British Film Forever (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2005 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
 
2005 Legendary Sin Cities (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2001 The Nightclub Years (TV special documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1999 The James Bond Story (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Arena: The Sir Noel Coward Trilogy (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1996 The Real Las Vegas (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
1985 The Golden Gong (TV documentary)
 
1973 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(????) Playwright: "Semi Monde" See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 20 Print Biographies  | 41 Articles  | 4 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Official Sites:

Noel Coward Theatre | Official Site | See more »

Alternate Names:

Noël Coward | Sir Noel Coward

Height:

6' (1.83 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade. See more »

Trivia:

He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1970 Queen's Honours List for his services to drama. See more »

Nickname:

The Master See more »

Star Sign:

Sagittarius