Gyles Isham
Sir Gyles Isham | |
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| File:Gyles Isham, 1935.jpg Isham in 1935 | |
| Born | 31 October 1903 Lamport, Northamptonshire, England |
| Died | 29 January 1976 (aged 72) Northampton, England |
Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet (31 October 1903 – 29 January 1976) was an English aristocrat, actor, and historian.
Life and career
Gyles Isham was born 31 October 1903 in Lamport, Northamptonshire, England to Sir Vere Isham, the 11th Baronet of Lamport, and his wife Millicent Vaughan. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1926 he was President of the Oxford Union and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (promoted to M.A. in 1930). He became an actor, appearing from 1929 to 1938 in several Shakespeare plays at the Old Vic Theatre in London, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and other venues. He also appeared from 1933 to 1937 in ten films, including the acclaimed Anna Karenina of 1935. Enlisting in the British Army during the Second World War, in 1940 he was commissioned as an officer into the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served in Libya in the Western Desert Campaign, by 1943 reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He also succeeded in
Filmography
- Anne One Hundred (1933) as Nixon
- Purse Strings (1933) as James Willmore
- The Iron Duke (1934) as Czar of Russia
- What's in a Name? (1934) as Schultz
- Regal Cavalcade (1935) as Dining Officer
- Anna Karenina (1935) as Levin
- The Perfect Gentleman (1935) as Man (uncredited and unconfirmed)
- The House of the Spaniard (1936) as John Gilchrist
- Secret Lives (1937) as Franz Abel
- Under Secret Orders (1937) as Lt. Hans Hoffman
Selected publications
- The Correspondence of Bishop Brian Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham 1650-1660, Northamptonshire Record Society, 1954.
- Sir Thomas Isham: an English collector in Rome, 1677-8,: A Selection of Pictures, Engravings, Books and Manuscripts Lent by Sir Gyles Isham, Bart., from Lamport Hall, Northampton: Exhibited at Central Art Gallery, Northampton, 12th July to August, 1969, County Borough of Northampton - Museums and Art Gallery, 1969.
- The Triangular Lodge: Rushton, Northamptonshire. Official Guide. Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). 1970.
- He also annotated the 1971 translation by Norman Marlow of The diary of Thomas Isham of Lamport (1658-81), Gregg Publishing, 343 p.
Notes
References
- Lamport Hall - Past and Present (the official guidebook), 1992, Lamport Hall Preservation Trust, Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire, 28 p.
- Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A, and London, England, 3 vol.
External links
- 1903 births
- 1976 deaths
- Isham baronets
- English male film actors
- English male stage actors
- 20th-century English male actors
- Members of Northamptonshire County Council
- High sheriffs of Northamptonshire
- Deputy lieutenants of Northamptonshire
- English expatriate male actors in the United States
- Presidents of the Oxford Union
- British Army personnel of World War II
- King's Royal Rifle Corps officers
- Male actors from Northamptonshire
- Actors from West Northamptonshire District