Waldo Lanchester
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Gender | Male |
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Date of birth | May 6,1897 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | London |
United Kingdom | |
Died | Stratford-upon-Avon |
United Kingdom | |
1978 | |
Stratford-upon-Avon | |
United Kingdom | |
Siblings | Elsa Lanchester |
Parents | Edith Lanchester |
James Sullivan | |
Grandparents | Henry Jones Lanchester |
Books | Hand puppets and string puppets |
Spouse | Muriel Lanchester |
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ID | 4286964 |
Waldo Lanchester Life story
Waldo Sullivan Lanchester was a British puppeteer who founded the Lanchester Marionettes, a puppet theatre that was based in Malvern, and later in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote a book on the revival of puppeteering and commissioned George Bernard Shaw to write his last completed play Shakes versus Shav in 1949.