1. Ronald "Trader" Faulkner was an Australian actor, raconteur and flamenco dancer, best known for his work in the UK on the stage and television.
18 Facts About Trader Faulkner
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Trader Faulkner was dubbed "Trader" after being caught stealing his father's illicit bathtub whiskey with his schoolmates to exchange for marbles.
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Trader Faulkner's father died a week after his seventh birthday in 1934.
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Trader Faulkner was educated at the Jesuit St Aloysius College, Sydney.
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Trader Faulkner built a long career as a popular character actor both in the UK and Australia.
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Trader Faulkner was a student and protege of Peter Finch and worked with many of the great stage actors of the twentieth century, including John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Quayle.
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Trader Faulkner's acting debut saw him play the part of a Messenger in Shakespeare's Hamlet, although he missed his cue and did not get to the stage on time.
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Trader Faulkner saw the name "Ronald" as rather dreary, and billed him using his nickname Trader.
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However, when this book was turned into a film in 2018, Trader Faulkner objected to his name being used, and the character was renamed Duncan Reynolds.
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Trader Faulkner provided the translation to Nuria Espert's Spanish-spoken Divinas Palabras for the National Theatre in 1977.
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Trader Faulkner received Spain's Order of Civil Merit in 1985 from King Juan Carlos for his contribution to Flamenco.
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Trader Faulkner maintained friendships with Dora Gordine, Antonio Gades and Antonio 'El Bailarin'.
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Trader Faulkner regularly produced one man shows in which he described encounters with personalities as diverse as Pablo Picasso, Noel Coward, Marlene Dietrich and Ted Hughes.
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Trader Faulkner lived with his mother on a houseboat, the Stella Maris, moored in Chelsea Harbour during the 1950s, and was a neighbour of the actress Dorothy Tutin.
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Trader Faulkner was a confidante of both Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh.
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Trader Faulkner joked that she was not offering him enough money.
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Trader Faulkner had relationships with the actress Renee Asherson and the ballerina Elaine Fifield.
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Trader Faulkner was married to the English model, television personality, and interior designer Ann "Bobo" Minchin from 1963 to 1973.