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Teddington, Middlesex, UK. Eldest son of Arthur Sabin Coward and Violet Agnes Coward -
his professional stage debut as Prince Mussel in The Goldfish at the age of 12, leading to many child actor appearances over the next few years
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One of the deadliest conflicts in history, it resulted in an estimated 30 million military casualties, plus another 8 million civilian deaths from war-related causes and genocide
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The last chapter (1917), Women and Whiskey (1918), The Rat Trap (1918)
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I'll Leave it to You (1920), Sirocco (1921), The Young Idea (1922), The Better Half (1922), The Queen was in the Parlour (1922)
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The play tells the story of the Lancaster household, which includes Florence the narcissistic matriarch and Nicky her musically talented but confused son. The dramatic events of the play revolve around Nicky’s recent engagement with a girl called Bunty and how this affects his mother’s relationship with her current beau named Tom. The themes of the play include drug abuse, parental responsibility, and homosexuality. -
2 married ladies of leisure are surprised by a note from their long-gone Parisian paramour (the same man. Not at the same time). His impending arrival twirling them up in a whirlwind of what, what-if and why‑not? Riddles that have them reeling through time to their pre-husband era, swept along on a wave of nostalgia and champagne. Join them as they dream and dither; argue and bargain in a charming attempt to have it all. -
Judith Bliss, the once glittering star of the London stage, is still enjoying life with more than a little high drama and the occasional big scene. To spice up her weekend, she invites a young suitor to join her in the country, but her novelist husband and two children also have the same idea, and their unassuming visitors are thrown into a living melodrama. Misjudged meetings, secret seductions and scandalous revelations run riot at the most outrageous of all house parties -
Easy Virtue (1926), Semi-Monde (1926), The Marquise (1927), Home Chat (1927), Private Lives (1929)
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Post Mortem (1930), Cavalcade (1930), Design for living (1932), Point Valaine (1934), Tonight at 8:30 (1935/6), Present Laughter (1939), This Happy Breed (1939), Time Remembered (1941), Blithe Spirit (1941)
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From 1934 to 1956 he was the president and was supported by the theatrical industry. He befriended the young Peter Collinson, who was in the care of the orphanage. He became Collinson's godfather and helped him to get started in show business.
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a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease.
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began in the mid-1940s and lasted until his death, was with the South African stage and film actor Graham Payn. Coward had a 19-year friendship with Prince George, Duke of Kent, but biographers differ on whether it was platonic Payn believed that it was, although Coward reportedly admitted to the historian Michael Thornton that there had been "a little dalliance". Coward said, on the duke's death, "I suddenly find that I loved him more than I knew."
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Peace in our time (1947), Long island sound (1947), South Sea Bubble (1951), Relative Values (1951), Quadrille (1952), Nude with Violin (1956), Volcano (1957), Look after Lulu! (1959), Waiting in the Wings (1960), Suite in Three Keys (1966), Star Quality (1967)
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Age 73, in his home the Firefly Estate from heart failure buried a couple days later on the brow of Firefly Hill, Jamaica overlooking the North Coast of the island. -
On 28 March 1984 a memorial stone was unveiled by the Queen Mother in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Thanked by Coward's partner, Graham Payn, for attending, the Queen Mother replied, "I came because he was my friend." Located in the Westminster Abbey Londen, UK