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Benny Hill (real name Alfred Hawthorn Hill) was an English actor, composer and writer. He was born in 1924 or 1925 at Southampton and died in 1992 of a heart attack. Best known for his vulgar television comedy series 'The
Benny Hill Show', he also played 'Bottom' in the 1964 television film version of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and appeared in other films, including the 1969 'The Italian Job'.
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Victor Jory was an Alaskan-born American actor. He was born in 1902 and died in 1982 of a heart attack. During the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's he played villains in numerous westerns and also gave a celebrated performance as 'Oberon' in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
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Diana Rigg is a British actress. She was born in 1938 at Yorkshire. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford- on-Avon in 1959 and made her mark shortly thereafter in productions of The Taming Of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and King Lear. Following a year-long stint as Emma Peel in the television series 'The Avengers', she joined the National Theatre, where she played Dottie in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Celimene in The Misanthrope, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Phaedra in Phaedra Britannica. She also starred in Tom Stoppard's 'Night and Day', Antony and Cleopatra, Stephen Sondheim's Follies, and won a Tony Award in 1994 for her Broadway performance in the title role of Medea.
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Eileen Atkins is a British actress. She was born in 1934 at London. She played Titania in the 1971 BBC television 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
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Kate Rorke was an English actress. She was born in 1866 at London. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Court Theatre, London as one of the children in 'Olivia' in 1878. She also played Helena in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Sophia Western in 'Tom Jones'. In 1906 she became professor of dramatic art at the Guildhall School of Music.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play written by Shakespeare. It is set in Athens and a wood not far from it. It opens in a room in the palace of Theseus.
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Bottom is a weaver in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Cobweb is a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Demetrius is a man in love with hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Demetrius is a son to Tamora in Titus Andronicus.
Demetrius is a friend of Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.
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Flute is a bellows-mender in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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