Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne was an English actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.

He was born William Brian de Lacy Aherne in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, the son of the Birmingham architect William de Lacy Aherne and his wife Louise ne Thomas. Educated at Edgbaston, Birmingham, he also carried out some early stage training at Italia Conti Academy in London and had some child roles before completing his education at Malvern College. He first appeared on the stage in Birmingham with the Pilgrim Players , onApril 1910, in Fifinella and made his first appearance on the London stage at the Garrick Theatre,December 1913, in Where the Rainbow Ends, a fairy play by Clifford Mills and John Ramsey, with music by Roger Quilter, which ran at various theatres for overyears.

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