Oscar Wilde is one of the most iconic figures from late Victorian society. Enjoying a meteoric rise loto the top of society. His wit, humour and intelligence shine through his plays and writings. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment. For ang time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue. However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable.”
- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born on 16th October 1854. in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were well known and attracted their fare share of gossip for their extravangant lifestyles. In 1964 his father Wille Wilde was knighted for his services to medicine. However his pride in receiving this honour was overshadowed by an allegation of rape by one of his patients. Although never proved, it cast a shadow over William Wilde.
Oscar Wilde proved to be a student of great talent. He was awarded a scholarship to Trinity College Dublin. Here he studied the classics, in particular developing an interest in the Greek philosophers and the Hellenistic view of life. From Trinity college he won a scholarship to Magdalen College Oxford University. He enjoyed his time in Oxford and was able to develop his poetic sensibilities and love of literature. He also became more conscious of his bisexual nature. For his increasing “femine” dress he often received stick from more “traditional” Oxford students. He was a brilliant scholar but also increasingly rebellious. In one academic year he got rusticated for turning up to College 3 weeks after the start of term. Thus after a while he lost interest in pursuing an academic career in Oxford and moved to London. It was in London that he was able to skilfully enter into high society, soon becoming well known as a playwright and noted wit. Oscar Wilde became famous throughout London society. He was one of the early “celebrities” in some respects he was famous for being famous. His dress was a target for satire in the cartoons, but Wilde didn’t seem to mind. In fact he learnt the art of self-publicity and seemed to revel in it, at least up until his trial in 1898.
Oscar Wilde’s trial gripped the nation, the subject matter a source of intense gossip and speculation. For his “crime” of homosexual acts Wilde was subject to 2 years hard labour in Wandsworth and then Reading Gaol. It is no understatement to say this experience deeply shocked and affected the previously ebullient Wilde. In some respects he never really recovered, on his release he left for Paris where he lived in comparative anonymity. However he retained his wit and continued to write, heavily influenced by his chastening experiences. Of these post gaol writings, his poem “Ballad of Reading Gaol is perhaps the most well known, illustrating a new dimension to Wilde’s writing.
“I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.”
Although Wilde couldn’t return to his previous level of writing he developed new capacities, whilst retaining his sharp intellect. As Johnathon fryer commented on Oscar Wilde’s final part of life he was.
“beaten but not bowed, still a clown behind a mask of tragedy.”
The Life of Wilde was turbulent and volatile. Never short of incident. It reflected his own inner paradoxes and revolutionary views. In some ways he was both a saint and sinner at the same time. Rightly or wrongly Wilde is remembered as much for his life as his writings. However he himself said.
“I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.”
His writings reflect in part his paradoxical view of life, suggesting things were not always as they appeared. As his biographer Richard Ellman said of Wilde.
“Along with Blake and Nietzche , he was proposing that good and evil are not what they seem, and that moral tabs cannot cope with the complexity of behaviour”
Whatever one may make of Wilde’s life, his capacity for writing remains undeniable. His greatest work and comedy is arguably “The importance of being Earnest” Here the plotline is thin to say the least but Wilde brings it alive through his scintillating repertoire of wit and biting humour.
“Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”
- Algernon, Act I
Wilde was not an overtly political commentator but through his plays there is an underlying critique of social norms that are illumined for their absurdities.
Wilde remains a fascinating character. One who lived life to the full, experiencing both the joy and tragedy of society’s vacillating judgements. With the distance of over a century it is easier to judge Wilde for his unique contributions to literature rather than through the eyes of Victorian moral standards. His quotes have become immortal a fitting tribute to a genius of the witticism
As Stephen Fry wrote of Oscar Wilde.
“What of Wilde the man? He stood for Art. He stood for nothing less all his life.. He is still enormously underestimated as an artist and a thinker.. Wilde was a great writer and a great man.”
References
Oscar Wilde – “Nothing … except Genius” – Stephen Fry
Wilde – Johnathan Fryer
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For many years Brits have been crossing the Atlantic to become Hollywood stars, the tradition goes right back to Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, Bob Hope and Cary Grant huge stars who made it big in America. We are glad to report the tradition continues today, with some surprising roles being played by some of our best actors. Possibly the most notable British export on US TV at the moment is Hugh Laurie. He plays the iconic Dr Greg House in the series of the same name. Now in its sixth series House MD is an award winning, resounding success. Hugh began his career in the Cambridge footlights and as part of a double act with Stephen Fry. Then through Black Adder, Jeeves & Wooster a number of hit movies including Stuart Little and 101 Dalmatians Laurie has found his way to House MD.
But British success does not stop there, Eastender Michelle Ryan appeared in re-imagined hit series Bionic Woman. In the award winning series The Wire Brit actor Dominic West stars as Baltimore cop Jimmy McNulty but did you know Stringer Bell the very personification of street cool, was also played by a Brit, Idris Elba, who started his career in the Bill. Brits are even making it into space, first there was Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard but did you know Jamie Bamber, who plays Major Lee “Apollo” Adama in hit Sci Fi series Battlestar Galactica was born in Hammersmith?
He starred in shows like Hornblower and the Ross Kemp vehicle Ultimate Force before crossing the pond to star in the WW2 mini-series Band of Brothers. To be fair Bamber’s father is American but his mum is from N.Ireland and he was born here so that makes him a Brit. Brits playing baddies is pretty standard in the US and they don’t get much more unpleasant than Dr Gaius Baltar played by James Callis he was born in the London, attended Harrow and appeared in both Bridgit Jones movies before blasting into outer space.
But the Brit success stretches into the future soon to be seen on our screens is another talented British actor, he starred in Band of Brothers and is soon to be seen as the star of a great new US TV show Life he plays that mainstay of great US TV, an LA cop, he is Old Etonian Damian Lewis. Join in on our Playback Forum, tell us who we have missed out, which other Brits have made it big on US TV, was Murder She Wrote actress Angela Landsbury actually born in London? Is Don Johnson actually from Bolton? Is Peter “Columbo” Falk actually a Scot??
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In the last few months of his life, he lived the very existence that he had feared virtually all his life. Broke, down trodden and almost destitute, the end of a the greatest living Victorian playwright, poet and thinker ever to tread the evil Earth should have been one of dignity and of superior grace. Instead, he lay, suffering what he would have been disappointed with – an ear infection (that later proved to be meningitis) and no real amount of mourners at his bedside. He had taught the world of the stiff Victorian values and what they had truly meant to someone who had felt a deep disconnection with the outside world. He had turned the establishment up side down; he had freely spoke in aesthetic terms that had once only been left to baggy shirted poets dying of syphilis. He captured the essence of Victorian life through both men and women and made a mockery of everything that they had stood for. Not unlike Miller for that instance, he also delved deep into the soul of a human life and bared it wide open to all as being evil and sinister in it’s daily actions.
Yet, he appeared, as we read about him now, flamboyant, gay (in it’s truest sense) and colourful. He had left behind him a legacy of satire, wit and dry humour that was decades before his time. Since his death on November 30 1900, there have been imitators, satirists, philosophers who have dived in to his works like dipping into great pools of analysis. Describing, dissecting and remarking on each line he ever wrote, we learn about not just his observations of the tight lipped world around him but how troubled he was within is own soul. Many thinkers and Wilde followers have argued since that he was simply an intelligence before his time – once being mocked for his love of beauty and all things created in a God like fashion, he would, it would seem, be more at home in this era, striding most graciously down the Kings Road, stopping every so often to glance inside some colourful boutique. Yet, with this surreal vision, we realise how, as character of sadness he truly was, yet his beginnings were of such hopes for a young man’s future…
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Born into a well to do Anglo-Irish family in Dublin on October 16th, 1854, he was immediately surrounded with not just the statutory gurgles and choochi coo’s of the adult world, but straight into an existence of knowledge and self growth. Whilst his father was not just a highly admired surgeon and a great writer of books on archaeology and folklore, his mother was a highly acclaimed writer, who held many an afternoon tea with the greatest literature creators of the 19th Century. What child could not fail to inherit such deeply intellectual talents from his parents? Perhaps due to his parents incredible brains, Oscar was doomed to roam the world in inner conflict right from the start. Yet he was completely at awe with his upbringing and his love of literature and books on anything grew naturally to him. He was taught at home by his parents and then didn’t attend school until his was almost 10 years old. Perhaps it was the distance from other children other than his own brother and sister, (she died when Oscar was only 13 and this affected him deeply for the rest of his life) that perhaps triggered an unhappiness within. It had certainly given him great power to observe the adults, warts and all, around him most closely.
Attending Oxford, he started to gather together pieces of scribbled poetry whilst studying English at Magdalen College. Not the greatest poet in his dormitory, as his intellectual brain was still in it’s infancy. Like Arthur Miller, he went on to receive awards for various prose although many failed. He was around this time in his life, a member of a student group full of Victorian hippies all trying to grow their hair and wear colourful and unusual clothes in a Bohemian fashion. They sat around and discussed art, poetry, beauty, wit and philosophy (as boys do, as one is put in mind of the film, ‘Dead Poets Society.) However these young men were innovative thinkers of their generation and already anti establishment to the hilt; if only dope had been passed around, we may have been exposed to Monty Python a heck of a lot earlier.
He eventually married in 1884 after having his heart broken by another woman who left him for Bram Stoker. (what on Earth for?) He had been so much in love that he vowed never to return to Ireland again. He kept to this, surprisingly and only visited briefly twice in the rest of his life. He had wed Constance Lloyd, a pretty girl whose character was not going to bound him in any such way. She was a devoted wife and mother to their two sons and was well educated and independent in her own right, whilst Wilde was free to write and edit the Woman’s World magazine and give lectures, mostly away from home. He had been used lecturing the curious middle classes on Aestheticism (The Justin and Colin of his time) and wrote a lengthy series of children’s fairy tales that were widely received.
Indulging further into his obsession with aestheticism, he lavishly spent their money (her allowance) on fanciful things and wildly decadent decoration for the house. At this time he had written some poetry (published) and a handful of mediocre plays, thus resulting in very little in the way of a good wage. Whilst struggling with money and the keeping of a wife and two fats growing sons, he was already battling with his inner feelings as a husband and father. Although he never lay anything before his domestic duties, he had known for a long time that his attractions for anything lustful where of a homosexual nature. As in Victorian England, the act of such an ‘unbiblical’ manner was a crime and came with a punishment of imprisonment. Wilde had mixed in circles where ‘rent boys’ were available to him, thus a need was, temporarily, eased. In wasn’t long before his inner battle was raised even more when he believed that within himself, there was an evil that couldn’t be cured. His plays were seen, on the surface as being witty, satirical and a jibe at the upper Victorian classes and their lack of education.
Below that surface, he portrayed every character as someone of sinisterism and evil thoughts against one another. In his black and depressing novel, ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray,’ (published 1891) there were strong similar characterisations made between Gray and Wilde. It was later used against him at his trial for indecent acts as a written character witness. He was cross questioned and firmly accused of writing an autobiography instead of a novel. (How strange minded the Vic’s were!) Yet his story was of a being who was gradually eaten up by his own evil thoughts that it drives him to suicide. Critically immoral, the Victorians ruled it out as a damaging piece of work whose strength was only for the eyes of madmen. Despite this and perhaps secretly pleased with the passions he was stirring amongst the London audience, he published it even so.
There then followed a series of four plays that focussed on the absurdity of the adult behaviour between the players and towards each other. Politically correct and up standing, they were laced rather beautifully with wit, farcical attractiveness and well observed in the mannerisms of the human being. They touched us with the relationships between the generations and more importantly, between men and women. He was, undoubtedly, a great philosopher of the interactions of men and women. After writing and editing a leading woman’s magazine, he had got to realised the failings of each sex. Thus pleasing a heterosexual crowd so much so, that when he was eventually arrested in May 1895 for gross indecency, it was an incredible shock to his vast admiring audience. It was made even more incredible when it was also in this year that he achieved the two most highly acclaimed plays of his life. ‘An Ideal Husband,’ and ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest.’
Regaining his wit and astute sarcasm for his trial, the sentence may not have been so destructive to his spirit if it wasn’t for the way he was standing in the dock in the first place. After accusing his lover’s father of libel, (the 9th Marquis of Queensberry,) the tables were quickly turned upon Wilde. Since Lord Alfred’s father had continually cornered the lovers with firing questions, Wilde had always managed to out wit the inquisitive old man. Strangely, it was Lord Alfred who urged Wilde to take him to court. To keep his long term lover close to him and to protect him, Wilde agreed, although he was warned against the idea by other close watchers. Unfortunately the tables were violently turned when after the case was thrown out, the prosecuting council learnt of Wilde’s previously unknown sexual behaviour and Wilde was arrested instead. He was found guilty and sentenced to two years hard labour, which he survived, quite broken in spirit, but still however, alive. It was argued by many of those close to Wilde and his social circle that why wasn’t every upper class boy accused of sodomy as it was apparently an activity of the highly educated snobs?
He continued to write and within his time at Reading prison, he wrote a letter which is now on display at the British Museum but was not allowed to be made public until 1960.
Many critiques have been published about the uncompleted works of Oscar Wilde. He had left amongst an elaborate life, a large collection of never seen before poems, play and prose of all sorts. They have been, in a scattered manner, published since his death. His son, Vyvyan published some prose and grandson’s after him, have continued to carry on his memory, publishing more work. Yet it’s the mind behind the wit, intelligence and observational humour that we still are captivated by today. He has been mentioned in pop music, (The Smiths’ ‘Cemetery Gates,’ and James Blunt’s ‘Tears and Rain,’ are recent examples of this.) As well as many theatre triumphs and fanatical flops have graced our West End on the life and loves of this unusual playwright. Never, I don’t think, have the literature circles felt such a magnetic pull towards an influential writer.
Many websites can be found in relation to the dissecting of his works and of the man himself. You can read the entire novel, ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray,’ online if you really are in a good mood or you can find other sites that will talk endless hours to you about the misconceptions of Oscar Wilde, as if we should be finding some way to forgive ourselves for putting to sleep a man who taught us about life and behaviour light years away from the biological and the mathematical theories. He was, through characters, the stand up, alternative comic of his day, yet we still don’t give him that credit and only remember him as an old fag who was self indulgent and flamboyant.
He once said, ‘Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative,’ and that is exactly what he gave us. His life was very much inconsistent and it is for this that we find a certain curiousness. Yet although he was at battle with himself for most of his life, he must have found, if only for a brief moment, a certain inner peace. He also said, ‘You can survive everything, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation,’ and this to me means that he knew how much his work would be forever admired and adored long after his own existence, so the rest of it, didn’t really matter.
“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for” (Oscar Wilde.)
Works to adore and admire;
‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ – 1891
‘Salome’ – 1894
‘A Woman Of No Importance’ – 1893
‘An Ideal Husband’ – 1895
‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ – 1895
Stephen Fry very wonderfully played a long awaited role as Oscar in the film, ‘Wilde.’ 1997.
?Michelle Duffy (sam1942 on ciao and dooyoo) 2006
http://www.oscarwilde.com
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Maggi Hambling is a household name in British art for her work as a figurative painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose strong identification with her subjects is expressed boldly. Maggi’s work can be seen in the British Museum, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Collection, The Gulbenkian Foundation, and many other public collections across the UK and abroad. Maggi has many connections with Suffolk, having been born there and created the Scallop sculpture on Aldeburgh beach. Continue reading for more information.
Born in Hadleigh in 1945, Maggi trained at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing from 1960 under Cedric Morris, and then at the Ipswich School of Art (1962-4), before continuing her education in London. Hambling became the first Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, during which she produced a series of portraits of the comedian Max Wall. In the mid 1980s she turned to landscape painting, made in her native Suffolk. Her studies of dawn in the Orwell Estuary recall the luminous visions of the 19th-century English masters J. M. W. Turner and John Constable.
In 1995, Maggi was award the Jerwood Painting Prize along with Patrick Caulfield and in the same year was also award an OBE for her services to painting.
Maggi is openly lesbian and she has often made gay cultural icons – such as Derek Jarman, George Melly, Quentin Crisp and Stephen Fry – the subject of her portraits. During the end of the 1990s, Maggi had a relationship with the British artists’ model, Henrietta Moraes, who had been an inspiration for many artists of the Soho subculture, such as Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, and known for her marriages and love affairs. Maggi produced a posthumous volume of charcoal portraits of Henrietta, and pair we close up until Henrietta died in 1998. Maggi described Henrietta as her muse.
In 1997, Maggi was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to create a statue to commemorate Oscar Wilde – this, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde was to become one of Maggi’s best known pieces of art.
The other piece of art that immediately springs to mind when thinking of Maggi Hambling is Scallop. Maggi was commissioned in 2003 to produce this sculpture to commemorate Benjamin Britten. Scallop is a pair of oversized, 12 ft high, steel scallop shells installed on an expanse of shingle shoreline on Aldeburgh beach, and carries a quotation from Britten’s opera that reads: I hear those voices that will not be drowned.
Maggi describes Scallop as a conversation with the sea:
“An important part of my concept is that at the centre of the sculpture, where the sound of the waves and the winds are focused, a visitor may sit and contemplate the mysterious power of the sea,”
In rave reviews for her 2006 sell-out exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art and the monograph, Maggi Hambling: The Works, the art expert and critic Brian Sewell said Maggi had “succeeded where Leonardo failed”.
Maggi gave up smoking in 2004 at age 59, and was also involved in the campaign against the total ban on smoking in public places in England which took effect on 1 July 2007.
Maggi’s work – the North Sea Paintings – can now be viewed on display alongside LS Lowry’s paintings of the sea at a new exhibition at the Lowry in Salford. The exhibition is open from 17 October 2009 to 31 January 2010.
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Hugh Laurie’s impact on US television is unmatched by any other talented Brit who decided to cross the Atlantic in the pursuit of fame on the American small screen. It is all the more remarkable that the star of the House medical drama series, who is now 50, should have risked leaving behind a successful career in London in 2004 to play the grumpy genius Dr Gregory House.
As a comic actor Laurie had almost cornered the market in upper-class buffoons playing them in various roles in the Blackadder series and Bertie Wooster to Stephen Fry’s Jeeves.
The gamble has paid off so handsomely that Laurie is into his sixth series of House and rumoured to be earning $400,000 an episode. Already into over 120 episodes — with many more planned — and shown in around 70 countries, Laurie is judged to be the biggest TV star in the world.
Laurie adopts an authentic American accent unlike most other British actors when appearing in a US series. Like Alex Kingston in ER, they play Brits or have indeterminate accents — Patrick Stewart (French in Star Trek), Edward Woodward (The Equalizer), and Ian McShane (Deadwood). Dynasty stars Joan Collins and Stephanie Beecham were not called upon to show their mastery of accents.
The same cannot be said for Frasier’s Daphne Moon. Jane Leeves was supposed to be from Manchester but her accent wasn’t much further adrift than Dick Van Dyke’s cockney in Mary Poppins. Neither Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman) nor Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) would have won prizes for their attempts on American tones.
The Office was successfully adapted for US screens but some British comedy shows — Benny Hill, Monty Python, and Mr Bean — have to be viewed in the eccentric original.
As for personalities that have duplicated their success in the US, Americans have to take the rough with the smooth — Simon Cowell (American Idol) and Cat Deeley (So you think you can dance).
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I wrote this poem after a friend of mine suggested that instead of moaning about all the injustices of my father, I should write a letter to him, forgiving him, maybe not even sending it. I write poems about strong feelings so I decided to do that instead. Whilst writing it I didn’t really believe my words and she wouldn’t last 5 minutes in a room with him, but, years later it has made me realise that his life is completely separate from mine, that his world is his and I am not responsible for it. To those people who this poem speaks to, we know each other well and it is dedicated to you. By the way, poetry takes longer to digest, it’s like Stephen Fry says, you should savour the words like you would savour the taste and texture of individual pieces of chocolate.
I forgive you, Dad
This fault finding eye I inherited,
it must be gouged.
These instructions from friends,
they must be followed.
That picture where I’m separate from you,
it must be painted,
and the illusion believed.
This clued-up comment that my task is hard,
must be defied.
That ‘you’ I keep referring to
must conveniently be forgotten.
My image of a Daddy,
it must be deformed.
My delicacies that you made your business
must be reclaimed;-
emasculated stamens.
These crimes of which you are culpable
must be reduced to mistakes.
These hands around my anger’s neck
they must be loosened,
so it can simply fall.
Your demons and your fears,
my friends these long years,
arrive and follow you away.
I wave a hanky at their fuzzy tails.
This speech of parents and the past
it must be muted.
Those words of normalcy,
oh those words of normalcy,
they will be spoken after all –
my smile the brightening of a field…..
……. a field………
I forgive you Dad,
I forgive you Baba,
for being unhappy.
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Ne James Hugh Calum Laurie, this English actor, comedian, writer and musician is a man of many talents. Although many people know of him for his role as the gravelly voiced Dr. House, Laurie first became famous for his comedic aptitude. Before he got into acting, he attended Cambridge, where he was awarded a Third-Class Honours degree in archaeology and anthropology. He was also an accomplished oarsmen, as was his father. He eventually joined the Cambridge Footlights, where he meant Emma Thompson and his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. You can catch the best of Laurie’s work courtesy of your satellite TV subscription.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: More commonly known by its acronym, ABOFAL, this British TV series starred Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. It was a sketch show featuring plenty of elaborate puns and word play, musical acts, and non-sequiturs. Often the characters would revert into their real life personalities or the camera would show the audience. It broke with tradition, and was considered a hit.
Jeeves and Wooster: You can catch this show on PBS or via the BBC on satellite TV. Based on the PG Wodehouse novels, the show starred Laurie as Bertie Wooster, alongside Stephen Fry’s Jeeves.
Black Adder: Another classic British comedy, this series starred Rowan Atkinson, of Bean fame, alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Each series of the show was set in a different era, but followed character of Edmund Blackadder, a member of an English family dynasty present in many different periods in British history. Laurie was introduced in Blackadder the Third, as the Prince of Wales, an idiot and fop. Later in the fourth season, Laurie played Lt. George.
Sense and Sensibility: In this movie, adapted by and starring Emma Thompson, Laurie plays Mr. Palmer, son in law to Mrs. Jennings. The movie follows the trials and tribulations of three sisters who must go about trying to make a living and find suitable husbands. You can catch the movie on any number of channels on satellite TV.
Flight of the Phoenix: A plane crashes in the Gobi Desert. Laurie plays the character Ian, one of the stranded passengers of the plane. The film was shot on location in Namibia. Although it wasn’t a hit, it did prove to be an entertaining adventure movie.
Stuart Little: Hugh Laurie appears in three Stuart Little movies, playing the doting father of little Stuart, a mouse. It’s a fun family film with some impressive CGI action going on; it’s perfect for viewing the kids on your HD TV.
House: Laurie made his audition tape for this show while filming in Namibia. Bryan Singer, the show’s producer didn’t even know that Laurie was British, as his American accent was so spot on. This role is quite different from Laurie’s more comedic affairs. He places a grouchy American doctor with a limp and a somewhat gruff voice. Dr. House is something of a genius-he has a knack for diagnosing odd diseases. He also enjoys playing head tricks with his students and his patients. Laurie has received several awards and nominations for his role.
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