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Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have remained in the regular theatre repertoire. He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during which he starred in many of his own works.
At the outbreak of World War II, Coward volunteered for war work, running the British propaganda office in Paris. He also worked with the Secret Service, seeking to use his influence to persuade the American public and government to help Britain. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama, In Which We Serve, and was knighted in 1969. In the 1950s he achieved fresh success as a cabaret performer, performing his own songs, such as "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "London Pride" and "I Went to a Marvellous Party".
His plays and songs achieved new popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, and his work and style continue to influence popular culture. Coward did not publicly acknowledge his homosexuality, but it was discussed candidly after his death by biographers including Graham Payn, his long-time partner, and in Coward's diaries and letters, published posthumously. The former Albery Theatre (originally the New Theatre) in London was renamed the Noël Coward Theatre in his honour in 2006.
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Filmography
all 98
Movies 89
Writer 59
self 11
TV Shows 9
Producer 1
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023)
Blithe Spirit (2020)
Blithe Spirit (2020)
National Theatre Live: Present Laughter (2019)
Private Lives (2019)
Noël Coward's Present Laughter (2017)
Private Lives (2013)
Burton and Taylor (2013)
Easy Virtue (2008)
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (2008)
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City (2005)
The Red Peppers (2001)
Relative Values (2000)
Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (1999)
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward (1992)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988)
Sidste akt (1987)
Quadrille (1986)
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
Bon Voyage (1985)
Me and the Girls (1985)
What Mad Pursuit (1985)
What Mad Persuit (1985)
Mrs. Capper's Birthday (1985)
Star Quality (1985)
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio (1985)
Hay Fever (1984)
A Song At Twilight (1982)
Come Into The Garden Maud (1982)
Present Laughter (1981)
Weekend (1980)
Design for Living (1979)
Private Lives (1976)
Brief Encounter (1974)
Song at Twilight (1973)
Amouren (1972)
Alta comedia (1970)
The Vortex (1969)
Duett im Zwielicht (1969)
The Italian Job (1969)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Boom! (1968)
Um Breve Encontro (1968)
Interlude (1968)
Androcles and the Lion (1967)
Pretty Polly (1967)
Anglická sobota (1967)
Blithe Spirit (1966)
Wechselkurs der Liebe (1966)
Oh, diese Geister (1966)
Quadrille (1966)
Al calar del sipario (1965)
Estudio Uno (1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Südsee-Affaire (1965)
Geisterkomödie (1965)
A Choice of Coward: Design for Living (1964)
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Amouren (1964)
The Caretaker (1964)
Festival (1963)
Geisterkomödie (1962)
Zwischen den Zügen (1961)
The Grass Is Greener (1960)
Surprise Package (1960)
Our Man in Havana (1960)
Akt mit Geige (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Weekend (1957)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Tony Awards (1956)
Blithe Spirit (1956)
Ford Star Jubilee (1955)
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
The Astonished Heart (1950)
What's My Line? (1950)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Blithe Spirit (1945)
Le Journal de la Résistance (1945)
This Happy Breed (1944)
In Which We Serve (1942)
We Were Dancing (1942)
Bitter Sweet (1940)
Men Are Not Gods (1936)
The Terrible Lovers (1936)
The Scoundrel (1935)
Design for Living (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Cavalcade (1933)
Tonight Is Ours (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Private Lives (1931)
The Vortex (1928)
Easy Virtue (1928)
The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927)
Hearts of the World (1918)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1899-12-16
Deathday1973-03-26 (73 years old)
Birth NameNoël Peirce Coward
Birth PlaceTeddington, United Kingdom
FatherArthur Sabin Coward
MotherViolet Agnes Veitch
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsNoël Peirce Coward, Sir Noël Peirce Coward, Sir Noël Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Coward
AwardsNational Board of Review Award for Best Film, Knight Bachelor
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