Colin Keith-Johnston

Colin Keith-Johnston
Born (1896-10-08)8 October 1896
London, England
Died 3 January 1980(1980-01-03) (aged 83)
London
Occupation Film actor
Years active 1927-1959

Colin Keith-Johnston (8 October 1896 - 3 January 1980) was a British actor.

Keith-Johnston was born in London, the son of Robert Keith-Johnston and Jessy Macfie, and was a prominent actor of the stage. As well as film appearances, he appeared onstage as Stanhope in the first production of Journey's End in the United States.[1]

He played hero Mr. Darcy in Helen Jerome's Broadway-hit adaptation of Pride and Prejudice at the Music Box Theatre in 1935. This was a notable role, the first to make Darcy a central part of the love story and to emphasize throughout the play the character's passion for and physical attraction to heroine Elizabeth Bennet. [2] Colin married Margaret Cookson (cousin of actors Marjorie Browne and Joy Launor Heyes) and their son Hugo Keith-Johnston born in 1954 was a successful child actor who appeared fiin 'Not In Front of the Children' (1968) for BBC t.v. with Ronald Hines and Wendy Craig.


Partial filmography

Notes

  1. ↑ Bordman, p. 381
  2. ↑ Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 110. ISBN 1421422824.

References

  • Bordman, Gerald Martin (1995). American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1914-1930. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-509078-0.


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