Scott Sunderland (actor)

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name = Scott Sunderland


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birthplace = Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England
deathdate = 1956
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Scott Sunderland (19 September 1883, Rock Ferry, Cheshire - 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 Stratford-upon-Avon 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 "Twelfth Night", Ulysses S. Grant in "Abraham Lincoln", Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew"' (during his late forties in the late 1920s), and several of George Bernard Shaw's plays (including "The Apple Cart", Shaw's last play).

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 Henry Irving'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.

External links

*imdb name|0839152|Scott Sunderland
* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:69115 Scott Sunderland] at allmovieguide