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 Francis Goodman
bromide contact print, mid-late 1940s
NPG Ax39612
Alfred Lunt; Terence Rattigan; Lynn Fontanne
by Unknown photographer, for Sport & General Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, November 1944
NPG x134903
by Unknown photographer, for Sport & General Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, November 1944
NPG x134904
by Unknown photographer, for Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, June 1946
NPG x134902
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, 1948
NPG x135109
by John Gay
bromide fibre print, published June 1949
NPG x47300
by John Gay
vintage bromide print, 1949
NPG x126525
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