Claire Bloom (1931-), Actress
Sitter in 11 portraits
Born in London, Bloom established a reputation as a Shakespearean actress first at Straford-upon-Avon in 1948 and then at the Old Vic in 1952. Played Cordelia opposite John Gielgud in King Lear in 1955. Her film career included appearing with Chaplin in Limelight (1952), Laurence Olivier in Richard III (1955) and Richard Burton in Look Back in Anger (1958). Bloom's memoirs, Leaving a Doll's House were published in 1996.
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on white card mount, 1952
NPG P870(1)
by Bernard Lee ('Bern') Schwartz
dye transfer print, 7 November 1977
NPG P1145
Claire Bloom on the set of 'Limelight'
by Bob Willoughby
bromide print, 1952
NPG x24932
by Dorothy Wilding
hand-coloured bromide print with film cover, 1952
NPG x4402
Michael Pickersgill Benthall; Richard Burton as Hamlet; Claire Bloom as Ophelia
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print, 1953
NPG x30028
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by Paul Tanqueray
photogravure reproduction tear sheet, published 9 September 1953
NPG x136629
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London
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