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Revision as of 13:43, 3 April 2002 by Deb (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. Born in 1899 at Teddington, Middlesex, he wrote his first successful play in 1920. Throughout the next thirty years, he enjoyed enormous popularity, turning out comedies and musicals such as "Hay Fever" (1925), "Bitter Sweet" (]), "Private Lives" (1930) and "Blithe Spirit" (1941), several of which were made into films. He also appeared in and produced films such as "In which we serve", "Brief encounter" and "The Italian job". He was knighted shortly before his death in 1973.