1. Patrick Ewart Garland was a British director, writer and actor.
20 Facts About Patrick Garland
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Patrick Garland's poetry had appeared in John Lehmann's The London Magazine and the annual PEN anthology during his teens.
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Patrick Garland was photographed in Oxford at 23 by Lord Snowdon and later.
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Patrick Garland's maternal grandfather was an artist and editor of Connoisseur Magazine, Herbert Granville Fell.
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Patrick Garland started Poetry International in 1967 with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne.
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Patrick Garland was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department, and worked on its Monitor series.
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Patrick Garland raised money to build and open the theatre's second auditorium, the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.
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Patrick Garland was the only director to have had four plays running in the West End of London at the same time.
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In 1978 Patrick Garland directed Under the Greenwood Tree at Salisbury Playhouse.
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In 1980, Patrick Garland was responsible for the York Mystery Plays.
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Patrick Garland directed the revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison and Don Giovanni and in Japan, Handel's opera Ottone.
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Patrick Garland directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book A Room of One's Own.
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Patrick Garland worked with Alan Bennett again, directing Patricia Routledge in the second Talking Heads and Bennett himself in Telling Tales.
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Patrick Garland directed the film of Ibsen's A Doll's House with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson, and his 1971 television film of The Snow Goose won Golden Globe: "Best Movie made for TV" and was nominated for both a BAFTA award and an Emmy.
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Patrick Garland directed Fanfare for Elizabeth at Covent Garden on Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday, and in 1986 at Westminster Abbey Celebration of a Broadcaster.
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In 1998 Patrick Garland devised 'A Christmas Glory' for the 300th anniversary of St Paul's Cathedral.
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Patrick Garland devised and presented several performances for the Charleston Festival.
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Patrick Garland was married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo from 1980; the wedding took place at Chichester Cathedral.
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Patrick Garland was awarded Honorary D Litt at the University of Southampton 1994 and an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1997.
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Patrick Garland had been working on his memoirs, as well as a book about Corsica, that both remained unfinished at the time of his death.