Alexander Gauge

Alexander Gauge

Alexander Gauge (29 July 1914 - 29 August 1960) was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" from 1955 to 1960.

Born in a Methodist Mission station in Wenzhou in China, Gauge was a well-known English character actor. Gauge attended school in California before moving to England. He first appeared on the New York stage in 1945. He acted in many of Shakespeare's plays, and usually played villains in British films, but many considered his forte to be comedy. He was a great hit in the London stage production of "The Seven Year Itch". [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Fcby_gwKIXMJ:www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/robinhood/robinhood.htm+alexander+gauge+china&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk]

Gauge appeared in the films "The Interrupted Journey" in 1949, and, all in 1952, "Murder in the Cathedral", "Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire", with Old Mother Riley and Béla Lugosi, and "The Pickwick Papers". He also appeared in the films "Martin Luther" (1953), "Beau Brummell" (1954), and "The Iron Petticoat" starring Bob Hope (1956). In 1955 he joined the cast of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" as Friar Tuck, a role he played until 1960. In 1959 Gauge starred as Brigadier Wellington-Bull in the series "The Adventures of Brigadier Wellington-Bull" alongside Valerie Singleton.

His last performance was a posthumous appearance in the 1961 film "Nothing Barred" starring Brian Rix.

Gauge died aged 46 from an overdose in Woking in Surrey in 1960.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0310025/ Gauge on the] Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/robinhood/robinhood.htm Gauge and The Adventures of Robin Hood]
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/26164/Alexander-Gauge Gauge on the New York Times website]


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