Nicholas Amer

Nicholas Amer, born Thomas Harold Amer in Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, is an English stage, film and television actor known for his performances in William Shakespeares plays. Amer made his professional debut in 1948 playing the part of Ferdinand in The Tempest. In his long career, Amer has played more thandifferent Shakespearean roles and toured todifferent countries.

Nicholas Amer was born in Tranmere, Birkenhead onSeptember 1923 into a working class background. His father, Thomas Amer, was a bedroom steward aboard the Cunard liner RMS Laconia and his mother, Margaret , had worked for Lever Brothers in their soap factory. He was christened Thomas Harold Amer in St Lukes Church of England Church in Tranmere and thereafter called Harold by his parents, brother and two sisters. It was many years later that he changed his name to Nicholas for the stage.

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