Max Adrian

Max Adrian
Adrian in the TV series One Step Beyond, episode "Image of Death" (1959)
Born	Guy Thornton Bor (1903-11-01)1 November 1903 Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Died	19 January 1973(1973-01-19) (aged 69) Shamley Green, Surrey, England
Resting place	Woking Crematorium, Woking, Surrey, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1925–1973

Max Adrian (born Guy Thornton Bor; 1 November 1903 – 19 January 1973) was an Irish stage, film and television actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

In addition to his success as a character actor in classical drama, he was known for his work as a singer and comic actor in revue and musicals, and in one-man shows about George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert and Sullivan, and in cinema and television films, notably Ken Russell's Song of Summer as the ailing composer Delius.