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Donald Davis records [textual record]

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[1940]; [1998-2001].

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R11210-6-9-E

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3795700

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Barbara Chilcott fonds

Donald Davis records
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Date(s):

[1940]; [1998-2001].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.1 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists essentially of records relating to the death of Donald Davis.

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Davis, Donald, 1928-1998
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Crest Theatre, [1939-1980]

Festival Lennoxville

Straw Hat Players
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Davis, Donald, 1928-1998 : Donald George Davis, actor (b at Newmarket, Ont 26 Feb 1928; d at Toronto 23 Jan 1998). Brother of Barbara Chilcott and Murray Davis. Donald Davis made his professional debut in the theatre at the Woodstock Playhouse, New York, in the summer of 1947. The following summer, the Davis brothers founded the Straw Hat Players in Muskoka, Ontario, a summer stock company which went on to local renown. Between 1950 and 1953 Donald acted in Britain with the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic.

Donald and Murray, with the support of their sister, Barbara Chilcott, founded the CREST THEATRE in Toronto in 1953. The Crest, which ran for thirteen seasons until it closed in 1966, marked an early attempt to establish an indigenous, commercially viable professional theatre in the city of Toronto.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Donald Davis continued to enjoy a busy acting career appearing in critically praised productions in regional theatres across the US and Canada. In addition to his roles in the plays of Beckett, he appeared with Katharine Hepburn at the American Shakespeare Theatre, with Judith Anderson in Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen, with Elaine Stritch in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and in Timothy FINDLEY's The Stillborn Lover.

Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia OnLine - http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/

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A Donald Davis fonds exists at York University Archives and Special Collections, Toronto, ON.
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Neptune Theatre

Chilcott, Barbara

Theatre - Canada
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Volume [R11210] 26

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