George Relph


George Relph, CBE was an English actor. He acted in more than a dozen films, and also many plays. He served in the British Army in the First World War, and was shot in the leg, hindering his return to acting. But Relph eventually got back on stage, and his career continued. His son, Michael, became a producer in the British film industry. His last role was Tiberius in the 1959 film version of Ben Hur which was released five months before Relph's death.

Filmography

Entry in Who's Who, 1960 edition:
RELPH, George actor born 1888 of George and Elizabeth Relph married 1st 1911 Deborah Nanson 1 son Michael Relph marriage dissolved
2nd 1925 married Mercia Swinburne
Educated High School, Whitley Bay, Northumberland
First appearance on stage, Grimsby 1906
First London appearance Hamlet 1909
Toured Australia 1910
Kismet, Garrick Theatre 1911
First appearance New York, Romeo in Romeo & Juliet 1912 for Herbert Beerbohm Tree
New York, The Yellow Jacket
New York, The Garden of Paradise
Joseph in Joseph and his Brethren at Her Majesty's Theatre for Beerbohm Tree, 1914
The Darling of the Gods 1914
Served Great War 3rd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
Wounded 1917
Toured South Africa 1924
Has appeared in The Man Who Came Back
Caesar's Wife
The Bat
The Green Goddess
Hamlet
The Squeaker
In recent years has played Blenkinsop in The Doctors Dilemma
joined Old Vic co at New Theatre in 1944 played wide range of parts: Clarence, Telyegin, Pistol, Worcester, Gloucester, Sublet, Dangle, Grumio. Sir Oliver Surface, Creon in Jean Anouilh's Antigone
Played also in continental, Australian and New York seasons with Old Vic co. and at the Comédie-Française in Peer Gynt and Richard III in Fading Mansion 1949
Reedbeck in Venus Observed St James's Theatre 1950
The General in Ardele at The Vaudeville Theatre 1951
The Duke of Applecross in The Mortimer Touch 1952
The Dean in The Bad Samaritan 1953
Mortmain in I Capture the Castle 1954
Abbe Martignon in The Little Glass Clock 1955
Old Ekdal in The Wild Duck 1955
Peter Sorin in The Seagull 1956
Billy Rice in The Entertainer 1957 at Royal Court Theatre and in New York 1958
Films include I Believe in you 1952
Titfield Thunderbolt 1952
Davy 1957
Lived at 18 Argyll Mansions Kings Road, Chelsea SW3
Clubs the Garrick Club and the Green Room Club