The ‘Casablanca’ and ‘The Invisible Man’ actor may not have cut it as the leading man but he often stole the show, says Geoffrey Macnab who looks back at his career on the centenary of his screen debut
, in which the audience could only see his face for a few moments at the end. As a leading man, he didn’t really cut it. “You’re small aren’t you. I don’t think you could play heroes,” one of his early mentors, actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, warned him. He had had a deprived and brutal south London childhood. “He grew up in the slums of London,” his daughter Jessica told the audience at a special screening of one of his films in 2012. “He was one of 12 children.
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