Born October 16, 1902· Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
† Died February 22, 1977
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Emerging from Windsor, England, the son of photographer Horace Nicholls and Florence Holderness, he cut his theatrical teeth alongside the Redgrave family, Laurence Olivier and Peter O'Toole, establishing a foundation in Shakespearean performance. Radio work followed, notably portraying Doctor Thorndyke in a 1963 BBC adaptation of R. Austin Freeman’s stories, and he contributed to a Caedmon Record…