Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English dramatist, writer, executive, performing artist and vocalist, known for his mind, showiness, and what Time magazine called "a feeling of individual style, a mix of cheek and chic, stance and balance".
Conceived in Teddington, south-west London, Coward went to a move institute in London as a tyke, making his expert stage début at eleven years old. As a youngster he was brought into the high society in which a large portion of his plays would be set. Quitter made continuing progress as a writer, distributing more than 50 plays from his adolescents onwards. A considerable lot of his works, for example, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have stayed in the customary theater collection. He made hundreds out of tunes, notwithstanding admirably finished twelve melodic performance center works (counting the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), screenplays, verse, a few volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume collection of memoirs. Quitter's stage and movie acting and coordinating vocation crossed six decades, amid which he featured in his very own significant number works.
At the episode of the Second World War Coward volunteered for war work, running the British publicity office in Paris. He likewise worked with the Secret Service, looking to utilize his impact to convince the American open and government to help Britain. Defeatist won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his maritime film dramatization, In Which We Serve, and was knighted in 1969. In the 1950s he made new progress as a men's club entertainer, playing out his own melodies, for example, "Frantic Dogs and Englishmen", "London Pride" and "I Went to a Marvelous Party".
His plays and melodies accomplished new fame in the 1970s, and his work and style keep on influencing pop culture. Defeatist did not openly recognize his homosexuality, but rather it was talked about sincerely after his demise by biographers including Graham Payn, his long-term accomplice, and in Coward's journals and letters, distributed after death. The previous Albery Theater (initially the New Theater) in London was renamed the Noël Coward Theater in his respect in 2006.
Conceived in Teddington, south-west London, Coward went to a move institute in London as a tyke, making his expert stage début at eleven years old. As a youngster he was brought into the high society in which a large portion of his plays would be set. Quitter made continuing progress as a writer, distributing more than 50 plays from his adolescents onwards. A considerable lot of his works, for example, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter and Blithe Spirit, have stayed in the customary theater collection. He made hundreds out of tunes, notwithstanding admirably finished twelve melodic performance center works (counting the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), screenplays, verse, a few volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume collection of memoirs. Quitter's stage and movie acting and coordinating vocation crossed six decades, amid which he featured in his very own significant number works.
At the episode of the Second World War Coward volunteered for war work, running the British publicity office in Paris. He likewise worked with the Secret Service, looking to utilize his impact to convince the American open and government to help Britain. Defeatist won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his maritime film dramatization, In Which We Serve, and was knighted in 1969. In the 1950s he made new progress as a men's club entertainer, playing out his own melodies, for example, "Frantic Dogs and Englishmen", "London Pride" and "I Went to a Marvelous Party".
His plays and melodies accomplished new fame in the 1970s, and his work and style keep on influencing pop culture. Defeatist did not openly recognize his homosexuality, but rather it was talked about sincerely after his demise by biographers including Graham Payn, his long-term accomplice, and in Coward's journals and letters, distributed after death. The previous Albery Theater (initially the New Theater) in London was renamed the Noël Coward Theater in his respect in 2006.
