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With the success of these plays on television, interest in theater gradually increased and by the 1960s flocks of people took to the theater again to witness performance of
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at an early age and took to the stage for the first time in 1922 at just 13. He quit school without a degree to pursue his acting career full-time. At first he worked under the auspices of his father who had to give up his theater after the
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He continued to put on television plays that were instant successes, gaining national popularity. It is in great part
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and came from a long family tradition of engagement with the theater which can be traced back to 1792. It was not until 1895 however, that
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have continued the family tradition and have both become successful actors. The city of
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