colin firth played king george in the king's speech.
colin firth played king george in the king's speech.
who played king george in the king's speech?
colin firth
the story of how king george vi overcame his fear of public speaking through the help of australian speech therapist lionel logue was first researched by david seidler in the 1970s. he had originally conceived the piece as a stage play, and contacted valentine logue, lionel's son, and was able to gather information about the story. valentine logue asked seidler to contact the queen mother and ask her for approval of the story being publicized. the queen responded she did not want the story told until after she died. the queen mother died in 2002, and it wasn't until 2005 that seidler began working on the story again. it was instead conceived as film. the film version of "the king's speech", that starred colin firth as king george and geoffrey rush as lionel logue, was a critical success and won several oscars including best original screenplay for seidler. the success of the film encouraged producers to bring the story to the stage as originally intended.
the king's speech (play)
after the war, he began a career on the london stage. among other roles he played "peachum" in bertolt brecht and kurt weill's "the threepenny opera". from the end of the 1940s, pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. his large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. he was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying turks, italians, arabs, greeks or orientals; he also played king george i, king george ii in disney's "rob roy, the highland rogue" and king george iii twice.
eric pohlmann