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Ernest Thesiger Website

Ernest Thesiger was an actor now primarily known for the two films he made with director James Whale, The Old Dark House (1932) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but in his time he was a tremendously popular and successful figure on the London stage, one of Bernard Shaw’s favorite actors.  A notorious eccentric, he was as interesting as the characters he portrayed on stage and screen.  He originally trained to be a painter and continued to paint and exhibit his watercolors throughout life.  He was a world-class embroiderer in petit point who exhibited his work in international needlework shows and wrote a book Adventures in Embroidery.  Never idle for a moment, he also pursued many other arts and crafts, as well as being constantly involved in charitable endeavors such as the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry.

I fell in love with Ernest while reading his published memoir, Practically True (1927) and wanted to know more about him, but found there was no published biography of him nor much information about him on the internet, so I determined to make the most comprehensive biographical website for him that I could manage, http://ernestthesiger.org.  Here I am amassing all I can find about this unusual personality, adhering as much as possible to primary source material.  I am especially attempting to acquire material from the Ernest Thesiger Archive at the University of Bristol.  Please help keep the website growing by contributing.  Everything contributed will go toward keeping the website up and obtaining more content for http://ernestthesiger.org.

Thank you,
HL Tyler

Organizer

HL Tyler
Organizer
Boerne, TX

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