George Arliss, English actor and playwright (died 1946)

George Arliss

English actor, author and playwright (1868–1946)

George Arliss was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) –…