| Christina Aziz |
A British actor, born in Twyford Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. He married actress Joan Schofield (1939-1950), and they had two daughters before their divorce. His works include Ten Little Indians (1965), Call Me Genius (1961), and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). He was born to an upper-class family as his father was a brigadier-general in the army, and his family expected him to make his way to a position in the army or the church, but he chose to become an actor.
He joined Copthorne Prep School, Radley College, and Worcester College in Oxford. He became a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He studied theater at tthe Embassy Theatre School of Acting and appeared for the first time on stage in 1937. He participated in television work until the outbreak of World War II, when he joined the Royal Artillery, and he was wounded in 1942 and discharged from the army. He presented his first movie, A Canterbury Tale (1944), and it was a successful movie. He impressed Gainsborough Pictures, and he appeared in mystery films and melodramas, including A Place of One's Own (1945) and The Magic Bow (1946).
He had an affair with the star Margaret Lockwood, which continued during several films they worked in together, such as Jassy (1947), and Hungry Hill (1947). His movie The Bad Lord Byron (1949) failed critically and commercially, affected his career, and shocked him that made he drank heavily after this failure, but his role in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) saved his cinematic career. In the fifties, he suffered from alcoholism, which affected his personal and professional life, and his marriage to actress Joan Schofield ended due to his addiction.
He started working in B-films. He tried to commit suicide in 1954 by gas, but he was rescued, and the producers sympathized with him, so he appeared in the movie That Lady (1955) with Olivia de Havilland. He presented some theatrical works and participated in successful works on the radio.
During the sixties, he presented the successful series The World of Wooster (1965), but in 1967, he declared his bankruptcy, and his need for money led him to appear in many poor films with the notorious writer and director Jesus Franco, films produced in Spain. In his late days, he worked in horror films, and he died in Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom on October 6, 1973 at the age of 58 from heart failure, as a result of a fracture in the upper leg, and it was said due to cirrhosis Liver from his drinking. which was a sad ending for one of the most promising British actors and movie stars.
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