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Macready

William Charles. 1793--1873, English actor and theatre manager
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It saw American actor Stuart Damon as pilot Stirling, Alexandra Bastedo as doctor and scientist Macready and William Gaunt as codebreaker Barrett.
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Macready's recollection of these lines shows the admiration the theatrical world had for Siddons, and also reflects her central role in generating and shaping new work.
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John Macready: http://www.nvahof.org/hof/hof-2010/john-a-macready/
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Prosecutors said Macready's dishonesty was only discovered when the head of practice at Padma Surgery, Dr Das Mohapatra, found out the organisation was overdrawn to the tune of PS35,000 and identified discrepancies in account records.
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Six years later, he was inspired to follow a life on the stage by watching William Charles Macready as Macbeth.
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Mrs Macready, housekeeper of the Professors' home where the four children have been evacuated during World War II, invites you to step through the doors of the wardrobe, through a row of fur coats and into the pine forest (real trees, by the way).
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In her category of 'theatrical fatherhood,' Sanders contrasts Dickens and Macready, the famous Shakespearean actor: Dickens cast his grown-up daughters in a private performance of The Frozen Deep, withdrawing them only when the play was moved to a public theatre and replacing them with professional actresses (the crucial incident that led to leaving his wife).
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The Champions, which was created by Dennis Spooner and producer Monty Berman, followed the worldwide adventures of secret agents Sharron Macready (Bastedo), Craig Stirling (Stuart Damon) and Richard Barrett (William Gaunt).
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This much was later acknowledged by General Sir Nevil Macready, one of the principal agitators for better care of the British dead in the First World War.
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In his essay, "Maclise and Macready: Collaborating Illustrators of Hamlet," Frank Nicholas Clary also focuses on the relationship between theatrical performance and the visual arts--between one actor and one painter--this time in nineteenth-century London.
Introduction: Hamlet and the still image

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