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Sir Ronald Harwood obituary | Register – The Times
In 1959 Ronald Harwood was an out-of-work actor, recently married and so impecunious that he was about to take a job as a labourer, helping to build the Hammersmith flyover. Then fate smiled upon him
In 1959 Ronald Harwood was an out-of-work actor, recently married and so impecunious that he was about to take a job as a labourer, helping to build the Hammersmith flyover. Then fate smiled upon him. His father-in-law, though reportedly less than happy that a daughter descended from Russian nobility was now the wife of a Jewish immigrant from South Africa, gave the 25-year-old a typewriter for Christmas. That gift launched the career that would win Harwood acclaim as a dramatist, an Oscar for h…
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