Donald Wolfit
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Emerging from a conventional middle-class family in Nottinghamshire, he pursued acting after a brief stint as a schoolmaster, securing his first professional role with Charles Doran’s touring troupe in 1920 and later simplifying his surname to Wolfit. A London debut followed in 1924, after which he joined Lilian Baylis’s Old Vic company in 1929, performing roles such as Tybalt, Cassius and Touchst…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
