Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger
(1879-1961), ActorSitter in 7 portraits
Actor. Thesiger was a contemporary of Augustus John at the Slade School of Art in the 1890s and continued to paint and exhibit. His acting career began as an amateur, but invalided out of the War in 1915, he progressed to the professional stage. G.B.Shaw adopted him as one of his favourite actors. He appeared in St Joan in 1924, and created the parts of the 'Microbe' in Too True to be Good, the British Foreign Secretary in Geneva, and Charles II in Good King Charles's Golden Days. He appeared in Gielgud's wartime Macbeth and continued to appear on stage until the last weeks of his life.
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger
by Sir Gerald Kelly
oil on canvas, 1920
NPG 5571
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger
by Dudley Glanfield
gelatin silver print, 1929-1932
NPG x198272
Colin Clive; Elsa Lanchester; Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger in 'The Bride of Frankenstein'
by Universal Studios
bromide print, 1935
NPG x138131
Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra and Ernest Thesiger as Theodotus in 'Caesar and Cleopatra'
by Wilfrid Newton
vintage print, 1945
NPG x137978
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger
by Karl Pollak
chlorobromide print on card mount, circa 1948
NPG x15051
Related People
- Frederick Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford (grandfather)
- Anna Maria (née Tinling), Lady Chelmsford (grandmother)
- Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (uncle)
- Julia Selina (née Thesiger), Lady Inglis (aunt)
- Alfred Henry Thesiger (uncle)
- Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger (uncle)
- Sir Edward Peirson Thesiger (father)
- Janette Mary Fernie Ranken Thesiger (wife)
- Hon. Mary Lincoln Thesiger (aunt)
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