Grandiose Irish stage, film and television character player Max Adrian, a noted classical performer and musical comedy revue star with a highly distinctive voice and "old school" acting style, was born Max Bor on November 1, 1902, in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. The son of Edward Norman Cavendish Bor and wife Mabel Lloyd Thornton, Max studied at the Portora Royal School and showed early interest in the performing arts. An intermission singer/dancer at a silent film theatre, he made his stage debut in the chorus in 1925 and proceeded to gain experience on the West End. Following extensive repertory experience, Adrian .
Performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Died from a heart attack at his home, Smarkham Orchard, Shamley Green, near Guildford, Surrey, after returning from the television studios where he had been recording Bertolt Brecht s "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" for the BBC.
His lifelong partner was Laurier Lister.
Although he was 41 when he appeared in The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France , his character Louis, Dauphin of France was only 18 years old when he died on December 18, 1415.
He received a three-month jail sentence in 1943 for a homosexual offense. Many felt the sentence unjust, and it did not seem to have too adverse an effect upon his acting career.
