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Patrick Garland

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Born: April 09 1935

Died: 1818 04 20132013

Patrick Garland was a British actor, writer, and director. He was the only child of Captain Ewart Garland and his wife, Rosalind Fell. His father was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during the First World War and his wartime exploits as a member of the Royal Flying Corps were fictionalised by Patrick in a well received novel, 'The Wings of the Morning' . Patrick was educated at St Mary's college, Southampton, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was tutored in English literature by Lord David Cecil .

Garland started Poetry International in 1963 with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne. He was a director and producer for the BBC's Music and Arts Department , and worked on its Monitor series. In 1964, he directed the Monitor film, "Down Cemetery Road," about Philip Larkin, in which John Betjeman also appeared. He served as the Artistic Director for the Chichester Festival Theatre twice, 1981–1985 and 1990–1994, where he directed over 20 productions. His 1971 television film of The Snow Goose won a Golden Globe for "Best Movie made for TV," and was nominated for both a BAFTA and an Emmy. He was made an Hon D Litt University of Southampton 1994; Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1997.

Patrick Garland's appearances as an actor included "An Age of Kings". In 1980, Garland was responsible for the York Mystery Plays. He directed the revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison and the musical Billy with Michael Crawford at Drury Lane, Don Giovanni and in Japan, Handel's opera Ottone. He directed his own play, Brief Lives, based on the life and writing of John Aubrey, and starring Roy Dotrice in the premiere as well as the 2008 production and Michael Williams in an earlier revival. He also directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book A Room of One's Own.

Recently, he directed Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens by Peter Ackroyd, in a tour that culminated in Australia and Broadway, and Joan Collins in Full Circle by Alan Melville. He also worked with Alan Bennett, directing the original stage production of Forty Years On; and for television, directing Patricia Routledge in the second Talking Heads and Bennett himself in Telling Tales.

He directed the film of Ibsen's A Doll's House with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson, and his 1971 television film of The Snow Goose won Golden Globe: "Best Movie made for TV" and was nominated for both a BAFTA award and an Emmy. He directed Fanfare for Elizabeth at Covent Garden on Queen Elizabeth II's 60th Birthday, and in 1986 at Westminster Abbey Celebration of a Broadcaster of the late Richard Dimbleby. 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier. He has also devised and presented several performances for the Charleston Festival.

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Patrick Garland

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Books from Patrick Garland

Oswald the Owl

The Incomparable Rex: Rex Harrison: The Last of the High Comedians

Brief Lives

The Wings of the Morning

The Incomparable Rex: Rex Harrison: The Last of the High Comedians

The Mystery of Charles Dickens