James Aubrey

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Biography

English stage and screen actor

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·casting_director
  • Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Nationality
  • British
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 28 August 1947
  • Place of birth
  • Klagenfurt
  • Death date
  • 2010-04-06
  • Death age
  • 63
  • Place of death
  • Sleaford
  • Children
  • Sarah Barzyk
  • Spouses
  • Patricia Barzyk
  • Education
  • Drama Centre London
  • Member of
  • Royal Shakespeare Company

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Son of an army officer.

Completed an MA in Drama at Flinders University, South Australia.

He was due to appear in the film, Shadows of a Stranger , playing the main character "David", as well as working on the casting and coaching of other actors. However, he died before filming had begun.

After seeing him perform in "The Glass Menagerie," playwright Tennessee Williams sent a copy of his memoirs to him with the following inscription. "To James Aubrey, The Best Tom Wingfield anywhere, ever?".

He is survived by his sister, Janet Fleming and brother-in-law David Fleming of Brighton, Sussex, England and a daughter Sarah Aubrey of Paris, France.

He studied acting at the Drama Centre in London, England.

He was educated in Germany, Singapore, and Jamaica.

Son of Aubrey James Tregidgo.

He was discovered by film director, Peter Brook while he was living in Jamaica in 1960.

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