- Nacimiento
- Fallecimiento5 de febrero de 1946 · Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido (broncopatía)
- Nombre de nacimientoGeorge Augustus Andrews
- Altura1,70 m
- George Arliss nació el 10 de abril de 1868 en Londres, Inglaterra. Fue un actor y escritor, conocido por Disraeli (1929), The Green Goddess (1930) y Alexander Hamilton (1931). Estuvo casado con Florence Arliss. Murió el 5 de febrero de 1946 en Londres, Inglaterra.
- CónyugeFlorence Arliss(14 de septiembre de 1899 - 5 de febrero de 1946) (su muerte)
- Discovered and promoted Bette Davis.
- Was the first British actor to win an Academy Award.
- The first actor to win an Academy Award for playing a real person, as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929).
- Best-known for his Oscar-winning portrayal of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who was in office on the day he was born, in London on 10th April 1868.
- Once, during a court appearance, Arliss described himself as The world's greatest living actor. "You see, I am on oath", he explained.
- [from his autobiography] Harry M. Warner told me that when he decided to do Disraeli (1929) he did not expect it to pay but he was using me as an expensive bait to hook people into the cinema who had never gone before.
- The talking picture is like a dress rehearsal in the theatre. It never gets those moments of inspiration when an audience lifts an actor out of himself. So I say that no player in pictures can ever be seen at his best.
- [In 1940] The beauty of Hollywood is due entirely to the hand of man. For once man has not brought destruction, but grace and charm where there was nothing but waste.
- Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
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