About Andrew Leigh
Lived 1887 – 1957 (aged 69–70). Andrew Leigh was an actor.
Andrew George Leigh (30 November 1887 – 21 April 1957) was an English actor and director. Life and career Andrew Leigh was born in Brighton on 30 November 1887, the son of a doctor – Thomas Leigh – and his wife Georgina Geere. He was educated in Brighton and then worked for three years as secretary to the author and journalist T. H. S. Escott.
He made his first appearance on the stage at the Theatre Royal, Worthing, in September 1908, as Rugby in The Merry Wives of Windsor, with the F. R. Benson company, with which he remained for five years, playing numerous parts, including many of the Shakespearean clowns, and also acting as stage-manager. His own favourite parts were both Shakespearean: the Fool in King Lear and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Leigh died in Brighton on 21 April 1957, aged 69.
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