Matheson Lang

1879-05-15 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Biografia

From Wikipedia Matheson Alexander Lang (May 15, 1879 – April 11, 1948) was a Canadian-born stage and film actor and playwright in the early 20th century. He is best remembered for his performances roles in Great Britain in Shakespeare plays. In 1916, Lang became one of the first major theatre stars to act on film, as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, with his wife as Portia. He went on to appear in over 30 films and was one of Britain's leading movie stars of the 1920s. Among his memorable roles were Guy Fawkes (1923), Matthias in The Wandering Jew (1923) (which also featured his wife as Judith), Henry IV in Henry, King of Navarre (1924), and Henry V in Royal Cavalcade (1935). Lang also wrote the plays Carnival (1919) and The Purple Mask (1920), both of which were produced on Broadway and made into films. Matheson Lang died in Bridgetown, Barbados. He was 68.

Películas

	The Cardinal	Cardinal de Medici	1936-01-04
	Drake of England	Francis Drake	1935-05-16
	The Great Defender	Sir Douglas Rolls	1934-11-26
	Little Friend	John Hughes	1934-11-18
	Channel Crossing	Jacob Van Eeden	1933-10-14
	Carnival	Silvio Steno	1931-10-30
	The Chinese Bungalow	Yuan Sing	1930-09-26
	The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Sir Percy Blakeney	1928-11-05
	The Blue Peter	David Hunter	1928-09-01
	The King's Highway	Paul Clifford	1927-10-01
	The Chinese Bungalow	Yuan Sing	1926-11-22
	The Island of Despair	Stephen Rhodes	1926-12-27
	The Secret Kingdom	John Quarrain	1925-08-01
	Slaves of Destiny	Luke Charnock	1924-03-31
	White Slippers	Lionel Hazard	1924-08-01
	Henry, King of Navarre	Henry	1924-03-01
	Eld ombord	Jan Steen	1923-02-05
	The Wandering Jew	Matathias	1923-05-01
	A Romance of Old Baghdad	Prince Omar	1922-03-01
	Dick Turpin's Ride to York	Dick Turpin	1922-09-01
	Carnival	Sylvio Steno	1921-06-26
	Victory and Peace	Edward Arkwright	1918-12-01
	Masks and Faces	Coachman	1917-03-01