Terence Rattigan
(1911-1977), PlaywrightSir Terence Rattigan
Sitter in 31 portraits
Rattigan was born in Kensington and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College Oxford, where he joined the University Dramatic Society. A decade after his first critical success, French Without Tears, Rattigan wrote his most celebrated and enduring works: The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948) and The Deep Blue Sea (1952). He was part of a theatrical establishment that came under attack by critic Kenneth Tynan and the Angry Young Men. During the 1960s he worked mainly in film. Knighted in 1971, his last play, Cause Célèbre, opened on 4 July 1977, five months before his death in Bermuda from cancer.
by Vivienne, for Camera Press
bromide press print, 1950s
NPG x194388
by Unknown photographer, for John Bull Magazine
vintage print, 1952
NPG x135120
Laurence Olivier; Vivien Leigh; Terence Rattigan
by D.H. White, for Daily Herald
vintage press print, 27 September 1953
NPG x136461
by Tom Blau, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide print, 1954
NPG x134933
Terence Rattigan; Vera Rattigan (née Houston)
by W.A. Probst
bromide print, 1956
NPG x22207
by Mark Gerson
bromide print, July 1960
NPG x13761
by Bill Brandt
bromide print, published in Harper's Bazaar May 1945
NPG P195
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