Henry Ainley


Henry Hinchliffe Ainley was an English Shakespearean stage and screen actor.

He was born in Leeds onAugust 1879. He was baptised in St. Georges Parish Church and brought up in Morley by his father Richard, a cloth finisher, and his mother Ada, but moved to London as an adult to pursue an acting career. He made his professional stage debut for F.R. Bensons company of actors and later joined Herbert Beerbohm Trees company. He found fame in 1902 as Paolo in Paolo and Francesca.

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