Frith Banbury

Frith Banbury

Frith Banbury MBE (May 4, 1912 - May 14, 2008) was a British theater actor and stage director. His career spanned multiple decades and included a long stint as head of the Haymarket Theatre in London's West End. cite news |first=|last=|title=Frith Banbury, Director whose 1950s reign at the Haymarket Theatre championed writers such as Robert Bolt and Rodney Ackland |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3941001.ece |work= The Times |publisher=Times Newspapers Limited |date=2008-05-16 |accessdate=2008-06-11] Banbury died on May 14, 2008, at the age of 96.

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