1. Frank Poole Dyall, professionally known as Franklin Dyall, was an English actor.
16 Facts About Franklin Dyall
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Franklin Dyall was the father of the actor Valentine Dyall.
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Franklin Dyall was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys.
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Franklin Dyall made his professional stage debut in April 1894 in George Alexander's company at the St James's Theatre, London, in The Masqueraders by Henry Arthur Jones.
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Franklin Dyall joined Johnston Forbes-Robertson at the Lyceum later in that year, playing Guildenstern in Hamlet and Second Witch in Macbeth the following year.
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Franklin Dyall appeared at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in June 1898 as the Doctor in Mrs Patrick Campbell's production of Pelleas and Melisande.
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At about the same time Dyall changed his stage name from Frank Dyall to Franklin Dyall, He acted in a wide range of roles, including several Ibsen parts, playing the title role in John Gabriel Borkman, Dr Rank in A Doll's House and Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler.
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In 1914 Franklin Dyall returned to North America, touring Canada and the US with Marie Tempest's company, playing roles including Richard Whichello in Mary Goes First and James Crane in At the Barn.
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Franklin Dyall remained in the US in early 1915, playing the paterfamilias in a new comedy, The Younger Generation, by Stanley Houghton.
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Between 1918 and 1939 Franklin Dyall played five Shakespearean roles: Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, Pistol in Henry V, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and Claudius with Gielgud.
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At the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1940 Franklin Dyall played Andrew Bevan in Behind the Scenes.
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Franklin Dyall toured in 1943, in The Strange Case of Margaret Wishart, and was back in the West End later that year as Vasin in The Russians at the Playhouse, and, in the Christmas season, the Caterpillar and the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland at the Scala.
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Franklin Dyall died at his home in High Salvington, Worthing, Sussex on 8 May 1950 at the age of 80.
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Franklin Dyall was buried in the churchyard at Thaxted Parish Church in Essex.
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Franklin Dyall was an early broadcaster in both radio and television.
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Franklin Dyall appeared in, produced or directed 26 films between 1916 and 1948.