Biographies: Cecil Kellaway - Actor

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Cecil Kellaway was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on August 22, 1890, as Cecil Lauriston Kellaway. He married Doreen Elizabeth Joubert (1919-1973), had two children, and remained with her until his death. Among his most important films are The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Harvey (1950), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Despite being born in South Africa, he spent many years in Australia, where he worked as an actor, writer, and director, contributing to the Australian film industry, then tried his luck in Hollywood in the thirties, participating in gangster films, until he felt frustrated and returned to Australia, then he called him William Wyler and offered him a role in the film Wuthering Heights (1939), and he stayed after that in Hollywood, working in cinema and on television. He died on February 28, 1973, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, of atherosclerosis.

• 17 March 2022
• Dalia Saad