Ronnie Barker in August 2017 by Ben Elton. Elton's lecture focused on the future of the British sitcom. Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as "Porridge", "The Two Ronnies", and "Open All Hours". Barker began acting in repertory theatre and decided he was best suited to comic roles. He had his first success at the Oxford Playhouse and in roles in the West End including Tom Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound". During this period, he was in
Harley Granville-Barker on handmade paper in a slipcase. Granville-Barker's most notable prose work is the "Prefaces to Shakespeare" written from 1927 to the end of his life in 1946. "Prefaces to Shakespeare" was considered the first major Shakespeare study to attend to the practical matters of staging. The prefaces were published in two hardback volumes in 1946 and 1947. In 1906, Granville-Barker met his first wife Lillah McCarthy while playing her opposite in "Man and Superman". After World War I, he divorced his first wife and married an American writer named Helen Huntington who disliked the stage, actors, and especially Shaw. He