Norman MacOwan
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Norman MacOwan (2 January 1877 – 31 December 1961) was a Scottish author, playwright, and actor, both on stage and in film.
MacOwan was born in Hope Park, St Andrews, Scotland, the son of a Presbyterian minister.[1]
He became well known as an actor, appearing as the name part in a stage adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire no less than 677 times.[2]
He became well known as author of plays for the stage.
In 1924 he published his first novel, The Infinite Shoeblack[a] to glowing reviews.[3]
He was a member of Dion Boucicault's company, whose members included Mary Jerrold, Hubert Harben and Mary Hinton, that toured Australia in 1926.[4][5]
Plays
- The Chalk Line with a cousin, Sir Fabian Ware.[1] Its first production was in London in 1912
- The Demagogue
- The Blue Lagoon (1921), dramatization of De Vere Stacpoole's story
- Lord o' Creation
- Jacob's Ladder
- The Infinite Shoeblack (1930), dramatization of his own book
- Glorious Morning (1938), lambasting totalitarianism and predicting a second world war
As actor
He appeared in films:
- The Dark Light (1951), also co-writer
- Valley of Eagles (1951)
- The Card (1952)
- Castle in the Air (1952)
- Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
- Where There's a Will (1955)
- X the Unknown (1956)
- Action of the Tiger (1957)
- Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
- Heart of a Child (1958)
- The Boy and the Bridge (1959)
- Kidnapped (1960)
- The City of the Dead (1960)