John Justin, actor, Prince Achmad in Korda's Thief of Baghdad
Michael Rhodes
actor John Justin, who died 29 November, 2002.
John Justin was 16 when he entered upon a stage career with the
Plymouth Rep. After additional experience at the RADA, Justin joined
John Gielgud's repertory troupe in 1937.
Justin's first film role also turned out to be his best: Prince Achmad
in Alexander Korda's Thief of Baghdad (1940).
After wartime service with the RAF, Justin decided to concentrate on
his stage work, accepting film assignments only sporadically.
He made the first of several television appearances in a 1949 BBC
staging of Antigone. Justin's last film role was that of Count di Pena
in Disney's Trenchcoat (1983).
For several years, John Justin was married to British film and
television actress Barbara Murray.
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Michael Rhodes.
Michael Rhodes
> The Independent [Dec. 6, 2002] reports the passing of the British
> actor John Justin, who died 29 November, 2002.
No, no. His demise is reported in the Guardian and Daily Telegraph.
John Justin, (actually John Justinian de Ledesma) was born 24, November, 1917.
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Michael
Mack Twamley
"Michael Rhodes" <mig73alle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The Independent [Dec. 6, 2002] reports the passing of the British
> actor John Justin, who died 29 November, 2002.
>
> John Justin was 16 when he entered upon a stage career with the
> Plymouth Rep. After additional experience at the RADA, Justin joined
> John Gielgud's repertory troupe in 1937.
>
> Justin's first film role also turned out to be his best: Prince Achmad
> in Alexander Korda's Thief of Baghdad (1940).
>
He was the one surviving principal member of the cast of Thief of Bagdad,
since
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez and Rex Ingram long ago passed on.
RIP.
Louis Epstein
: "Michael Rhodes" <mig73alle...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
I note that June Duprez actually died years before Julanne Johnston,
who had played the analogous role in the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks silent
version.
(Fairbanks and Snitz Edwards,who played the roles Korda's film
drastically re-engineered for Justin and Sabu,died before the
later film was even released).
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"Louis Epstein" <lep...@PUF.FCC.NET> wrote in message
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It's probably just as well that Fairbanks Sr. died in 1939, before he had a
chance
to see the 1941 Korda version, because as fine as the 1924 film was, the
three-strip
Technicolor and marvelous effects (like the flying mechanical horse and the
blue
Kali-of-the-many-arms woman) really outshone the original. and then,
Fairbanks
didn't have sound to display Rozsa's terrific score.
I think my earliest crush was on June Duprez (at about age 8) but she was
(alas)
much less exotic in "And Then There Were None" 1945.
Louis Epstein
: "Louis Epstein" wrote in message
It all depends on attitudes...
Having seen the Fairbanks version first,
I reacted to the later one with my usual
intolerance for plot alterations in remakes,
its visual impressiveness notwithstanding.
And I saw neither one when it was new.