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Alexander Sheriff de Moro Clunes (17 May 1912 – 13 March 1970) was an English actor and theatrical manager.
Among the plays he presented were Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning. He gave the actor and dramatist Peter Ustinov his first break with his production The House of Regrets. His film career was brief, but varied. He played Hastings in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955), and also appeared in wartime films such as One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942), although he was in fact a conscientious objector. He also appeared in The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955).
Clunes' later stage work included succeeding Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins in the musical theater My Fair Lady in 1959. His final stage appearance was in 1968.
He was twice married: to actress Stella Richman, later a television producer, and Daphne Gillian Acott, with whom he had one son, actor Martin Clunes.
Alec Clunes died from lung cancer on 13 March 1970, aged 57. He left a widow, his son, Martin Clunes, and a daughter.
Clunes played Woodes Rogers, the lead in the first three episodes of The Buccaneers in 1956. He was also offered the lead part of Bernard Quatermass in the BBC science-fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit in 1958, but declined the role (André Morell was cast instead).
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