Arthur Hall

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HALL, Arthur (19**-) Actor for stage, TV and film.

Biography

Youth

Training

Career

He was kept in steady employment by PACT in 1966.


Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Starred in Jean Anouilh’s Antigone which was presented by the Arena Theatre Company and staged at the YMCA during 1956, also starring Beryl Gordon; John Fernald’s production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard (PACT at the Alexander Theatre in 1963).

He had roles in Seven Against the Sun (NTO), The Real Inspector Hound, Caste (Intimate Theatre), Affairs of State, Richard III, The Beaux' Stratagem, Heartbreak House, The Importance of Being Earnest, L'Avare, Le Malade imaginaire, The Prisoner, Pygmalion, Rashomon, Roméo et Jeanette, A Touch of the Poet, A View from the Bridge, Seven Against the Sun, Hadrian the Seventh, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Playboy of the Western World, Ring Round the Moon, Biography, Career, A Sleep of Prisoners, The Mask and the Face, Everything in the Garden, Tango, Hou die Blink Kant Bo, The Tragedy of Tragedies, or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great.

Shut Your Eyes and Think of England (with Toerien-Firth Company), The Circle (with NAPAC), Kismet (with PACT), The Taming of the Shrew (with NAPAC); Quartermaine's Terms (CAPAB*?, 1982.

He directed A Man of Destiny.

He was the chairman of the South African Actors’ Equity Association in 1968.

Awards, etc

Won a 1983 Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Supporting Male for Quartermaine's Terms (for Pieter Toerien Productions).

Sources

SACD 1978/79; 1981/82; Limelight 1983/84.

Tucker, 1997.


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