Neil North

Neil North was a British actor, best known for his role in the 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigans play The Winslow Boy. North appeared in four other films released between 1948 and 1951, but did not make acting a fulltime career. After a hiatus of overyears however, he did return to the screen with three further credits towards the end of his life, including a role in the 1999 remake of The Winslow Boy.

North was born in Quetta, British India, the youngest son of an officer in the Indian army. After a peripatetic childhood spent at various schools in India and Britain, North became a pupil at the Kings School in Canterbury, Kent. He developed an interest in drama, and in 1947 was cast in the role of the Boy King, Richard II, in a production of Laurie Lees play Peasants Priest which was staged as part of that years Canterbury Festival. His performance impressed director Bernard Miles, and when Miles learned that film director Anthony Asquith was searching for a public school boy with acting experience for the title role in a screen version of The Winslow Boy, he put Norths name forward.

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