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“‘I have played in nine films,’ said Ernest Thesiger, ‘and I am very cross about it.’ Should I meet a man who knows all about Eisenstein’s [sic] theory of relativity I regret to record that I would not be deeply moved, the reason being (so arrogant are men) that I know relatively nothing about Eisenstein; but as we have all tried to act (those screaming family charades) I could not ...
Overview. Ernest Thesiger (1879-1961) was a star of stage and screen, most notorious for his portrayal of Dr Pretorius in the film The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). After an initial art training at the Slade, his first professional stage appearance was in Colonel Smith (1909) at St James's Theatre.
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1879. January 15 Ernest is born. 1890. September 4 Performs at amateur concert in the Constitutional Hall at Bramley in aid of the Royal Surrey County Hospital, playing violin with his father and his brother Arthur.
Ernest Thesiger (Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, 1879-1961) was an actor who worked on stage and in film, most famously as Dr Septimus Pretorius in The Bride of Frankenstein.
"Ernest, whom some of us remember as the least enterprising of Slade students. His only deed of daring in those days was an occasional stunt on model's throne in imitation of Sarah Bernhardt....He was a character, and popular; but nobody imagined he would one day get a wound in a real battle and be able to forget about it immediately afterward."
Gaunt, sharp-featured British character actor whose film appearances were too few but almost invariably delightful. A veteran of the stage, Thesiger brought his rich, fruity delivery and polished timing to a series of eccentric, sometimes menacing, but usually comically haughty character roles....
