Herbert Beerbohm Tree Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Herbert Beerbohm Tree was born on December 17, 1852 in Kensington, London, England as Herbert Draper Beerbohm. He was an actor and director, known for Beerbohm Tree, the Great English Actor (1899), Henry VIII (1911) and The Tempest (1905). He was married to Lady Tree. He died on July 2, 1917 in Marylebone, London.
[on cinema] New and vigorous impulses seem to me to be at work in it, and doubtless before long it will drop all slavish copying of the stage and strike out along fresh paths.
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He was of English, Dutch, German, and Lithuanian descent.
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He is interred at Saint John's Churchyard in London, England in the churchyard extension section.
His voice can be heard in excerpts from Shakespeare, on the Naxos CD "Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings".
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Grandfather of Oliver Reed (Reed's father Peter was one of Tree's seven illegitimate children)
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He was the father of the director Carol Reed, who was his illegitimate son by his mistress May Pinney Reed.
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He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1909 King's Honours List for his services to drama.
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When confronted by Shaw over his ad-lib to the ending of "Pygmalion", Tree replied: "My ending makes money; you should be grateful." Shaw then replied, "Your ending is damnable; you should be shot!"
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He was the original Professor Henry Higgins in the first stage production of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" (1914). His spontaneous romantic ad libs to the play (such as throwing Eliza a bouquet of flowers at the end) infuriated Shaw, who was a strongly anti-romantic author. Fortunately, these ad libs did not become a part of tradition in future productions of the play.
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