Scott Sunderland (19 September 1883 – 1956) was an English actor. Principally working on the stage, his few film roles included Colonel Pickering in the 1938 film adaptation of Shaw's '' Pygmalion'' and Sir John Colley in the 1939 film adaptation of '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips''.

Life

Educated in England and Germany, his first professional theatrical appearance was with the F.R. Benson company at

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in 1909 as Douglas in '' Henry IV, Part 2'', followed later that year with his London debut. Other roles he played during his stage career included Feste in ''

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'',

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in ''Abraham Lincoln'', Peter Dais in ''North of the Moon'', Petruchio in ''

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(during his late forties in the late 1920s), and several of

George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...

's plays (including ''

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''). His stage experience of Shaw and his move to 'grand old man' roles by the late 1930s led to his being cast in the 1938 film of ''Pygmalion'' as Colonel Pickering and in the 1939 film of ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips''. He appeared in ''Here's to Our Enterprise'', a one-night show in May 1938 based on

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's life (as part of the celebrations surrounding the centenary of Irving's birth) and, though this marked his last major appearance on the London stage, also performed in revivals and new work for the Birmingham Repertory Company between 1942 and 1945 before retiring in the late 1940s. He was gay and his life-long partner was the director, Sir Barry Jackson.

Filmography

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