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George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

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  • Director
  • Actor
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George Bernard Shaw
The Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, acquired a reputation as the greatest dramatist in the English language during the first half of the 20th Century for the plays he had written at the height of his creativity from "Mrs. Warren's Profession" in 1893 to "The Apple Cart" in 1929. His works have been revived on Broadway from 1894 to 2010. His most famous work in the 21st Century is My Fair Lady (1964), the musical adaptation of Pygmalion (1938).

A Shavian drama (his reputation was so great, he had his own adjective ascribed to his works) had a biting social critique leavened by humor. According to his Nobel Prize citation, "His ideas were those of a somewhat abstract logical radicalism; hence they were far from new, but they received from him a new definiteness and brilliance. In him these ideas combined with a ready wit, a complete absence of respect for any kind of convention, and the merriest humor - all gathered together in an extravagance which has scarcely ever before appeared in literature."

He was a major international celebrity and a force in British politics, being a charter member of the Fabian Society. The Fabians were committed to democratic socialism, that is, using parliamentary mechanisms to encourage a gradual adoption of socialist policies through political reform rather than revolution.
BornJuly 26, 1856
DiedNovember 2, 1950(94)
BornJuly 26, 1856
DiedNovember 2, 1950(94)
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  • Won 1 Oscar
    • 2 wins total

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Gabriel Pascal and George Bernard Shaw in Major Barbara (1941)
Dirk Bogarde, Leslie Caron, and George Bernard Shaw in The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
Leslie Caron and George Bernard Shaw in The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)

Known for

My Fair Lady (1964)
My Fair Lady
7.8
  • Writer(as Bernard Shaw)
  • 1964
Leslie Howard in Pygmalion (1938)
Pygmalion
7.8
  • Writer(as Bernard Shaw, uncredited)
  • 1938
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
  • Writer
    Arms and the Man
    7.6
    • Writer
    • 1932

    Credits

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    Writer

    • Streamed Shakespeare (2020)
      Streamed Shakespeare
      • Writer
      • TV Mini Series
      • 2021
    • Dollar Shakespeare (2021)
      Dollar Shakespeare
      • Writer
      • TV Series
      • 2021
    • Steven Anderson, Catherine Gilbert, George Bernard Shaw, Shakira Searle, Andrew Weinstein, Tatanya Lowed-Spence, Claire Bochenek, Allison Russell, Kaitlyn Fowler, Mira Singer, and Andrew Gelos in Saint Joan (2020)
      Saint Joan
      • play
      • TV Special
      • 2020
    • Randy Wayne and Gehan Cooray in The Billionaire (2020)
      The Billionaire
      • Writer
      • 2020
    • Love (2019)
      Love
      • play
      • TV Movie
      • 2019
    • Gemma Arterton in National Theatre Live: Saint Joan (2017)
      National Theatre Live: Saint Joan
      • play
      • 2017
    • National Theatre Live: Man and Superman (2015)
      National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
      • play
      • 2015
    • Fifty Years on Stage (2013)
      Fifty Years on Stage
      • written by (segment Saint Joan)
      • TV Movie
      • 2013
    • Christopher Plummer and Nikki M. James in Caesar and Cleopatra (2009)
      Caesar and Cleopatra
      • play
      • 2009
    • Dónde estaré esta noche. Teatro de ciertos habitantes
      • Writer
      • TV Movie
      • 2006
    • Ne v dengakh schastye (2005)
      Ne v dengakh schastye
      • novel
      • TV Mini Series
      • 2005
    • My Fair Lady
      • play
      • TV Movie
      • 2002
    • Die heilige Johanna
      • play
      • 1997
    • Television Theater (1953)
      Television Theater
      • play
      • drama
      • TV Series
      • 1956–1997
    • The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet
      • original story
      • Short
      • 1997

    Director

    • Shaw Talks for Movietone News
      • Director (uncredited)
      • Short
      • 1928

    Actor

    • Gaby Deslys in Rosy Rapture (1915)
      Rosy Rapture
      • Short
      • 1915
    • In-development projects at IMDbPro

    Personal details

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    • Alternative names
      • Bernard Shaw
    • Height
      • 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
    • Born
      • July 26, 1856
      • Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
    • Died
      • November 2, 1950
      • Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, UK(kidney failure)
    • Spouse
      • Charlotte Payne-TownshendJune 1, 1898 - September 12, 1943 (her death)
    • Other works
      Stage: Adapted for the English-speaking stage "Jitta's Atonement," a comedy by Austrian Siegfried Trebitsch.
    • Publicity listings
      • 3 Biographical Movies
      • 16 Print Biographies
      • 18 Portrayals
      • 12 Articles
      • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      First person to receive a Nobel Prize and an Oscar (Pygmalion (1938)). When songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, he became the second person.
    • Quotes
      He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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