Rex Harrison: Verskil tussen weergawes

'''Reginald Carey Harrison''' is in Derry House in Huyton, [[Brittanje]],<ref>Derry House, Huyton: Aaronson, Charles S, red. 1969 International Television Almanac, Quigley Publications, New York, USA</ref> gebore en het aan die Liverpool-kollege skoolgegaan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Ha-Hu/Harrison-Sir-Rex.html |title=(Sir) Rex Harrison |publisher=filmreference.com |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721043450/http://www.filmreference.com/Actors-and-Actresses-Ha-Hu/Harrison-Sir-Rex.html |archive-date=21 Julie 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Hy het in 1924 in [[Liverpool]] die eerste keer op die verhoog verskyn. Sy loopbaan is tydens die [[Tweede Wêreldoorlog]] onderbreek terwyl hy in die Britse lugmag as vlugluitenant gedien het.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9329855 Sir Rex Harrison Biography by Biography.com]</ref>

Hy het in [[Londen]] en [[New York Stad|New York]] rolle op die verhoog vertolk in stukke soos ''Bell, Book and Candle'', ''Venus Observed'', ''The Cocktail Party'', ''The Kingfisher'' en ''The Love of Four Colonels''. Hy was ook die regisseur van laasgenoemde.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2208 |title=The Love of Four Colonels |publisher=ibdb.com |access-date=1 Oktober 2009 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924143158/http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2208 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Hy het sy eerste [[Tony]] in 1949 gewen vir sy rol as [[Hendrik VIII van Engeland|Hendrik VIII]] in ''Anne of the Thousand Days''. Sy tweede Tony en internasionale roem het gevolg met sy rol as prof. Henry Higgins in ''My Fair Lady'', waarin hy saam met [[Julie Andrews]] verskyn het.

Hoewel hy uit die rolprentbedryf getree het ná die 1982-prent ''A Time to Die'', het Harrison steeds op Broadway en die [[Weseinde]] verskyn tot net voor sy dood. Hy is in 1984 vir nog ’n Tony benoem vir sy rol as kapt. Shotover in George Bernard Shaw se ''Heartbreak House.'' Daarna het hy in onder meer ''The Kingfisher'' (1985), ''Aren't We All?'' (1986) en ''The Admirable Crichton'' (1989) verskyn.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/21/theater/review-theater-rex-harrison-back-on-broadway.html |title=Review/Theater; Rex Harrison Back on Broadway |last=Rich |first=Frank |date=21 November 1989 |publisher=The New York Times |access-date=12 Mei 2009 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721073357/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/21/theater/review-theater-rex-harrison-back-on-broadway.html |archive-date=21 Julie 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Harrison is op 2 Junie 1990 in sy huis in [[Manhattan]] dood op die ouderdom van 82. Die verhoogstuk waarin hy toe verskyn het, ''The Circle'' (1989–1990), het met sy dood tot ’n einde gekom.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/obituaries/rex-harrison-a-leading-man-with-urbane-wit-dies-at-82.html |title=Rex Harrison, a Leading Man With Urbane Wit, Dies at 82 |last=Pace |first=Eric |date=3 Junie 1990 |publisher=The New York Times |page=1 |access-date=12 Mei 2009 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417182703/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/obituaries/rex-harrison-a-leading-man-with-urbane-wit-dies-at-82.html |archive-date=17 April 2019 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>