Clifford Marle

Clifford Marle was a British actor and producer of the early 20th century.

Biography

Marle was born Patrick Cassamer Rafter in 1885, son of Dr. John Rafter, a physician on Merseyside and former mayor of Bootle. He became a medical student at Liverpool University, but later he decided to adopt a stage career.

Career

Marle was for a time a member of a stock company at the old Sadler's Wells Theatre. He also toured South America and the United States where he was producer to the Northampton Repertory Theatre, Massachusetts. For three years he was leading man at the Liverpool Repertory Theatre. Here he took on the additional work as producer. His leading parts at the theatre were many and varied, including the title role in August Strindberg's play The Father and as the butler in The Admiral Crichton. During his term as producer he dealt with all types of plays, from broadest farce to Maurice Maeterlinck's Mary Magdalene and was the first producer in England to stage a public performance of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown. He appeared with some success at the Malvern Drama Festival. In 1935 he appeared as "Relling" in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Birmingham Repertory Theate with James Hayter and Arthur Ridley. He appeared in several silent films, as Lieutenant Daring in Adventures of Lieutenant Daring-in a South American Port (1911); as the Rev. Percival Ferrers in The Gentleman Ranker (1912) and as Phipps in The Wheels of Chance (1922).

Personal

Marle married Josephine Chalmers in 1907. As Josephine Colona she was an actress in her own right, daughter of "The Mexican Tragedian", Don Eduardo Colona. They had one child, John, born 1907.

External links

• Clifford Marle at the Internet Movie Database

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