James Norval
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(19**-1970) Afrikaans actor on stage and film. *** Worked for the Hendrik Hanekom Geselskap. In 1934, when Hanekom retired to found a theatre school in Bloemfontein, Norval founded his own group to tour with Die Verlore Siel ("The Lost Soul", a reworking in Afrikaans of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), Vadertjie Langbeen ("Daddy Longlegs"), Dracula and Gebeurtenis in die Nag ("Happening in the Night"). He died on 16 November 1970.
Die erepenning van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie is in 1968 aan hom toegeken. (Source: Teater SA, 1(1), 1968).
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