Nigel Playfair

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Nigel Playfair. Actor: Lady Windermere's Fan. When one thinks of the great English actors who have been knighted, one thinks of Sir Henry Irving, the greatest actor of the middle-to-late Victorian period who became the first thespian to have a sovereign's sword patted on both shoulders in 1895, or the likes of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the greatest Hamlet of his generation. In the 20th Century, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who became...