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John Sumner. Actor: King Kong. Born in the UK and later lived in South Africa (Cape Town) John arrived in New Zealand with his family at the age of 9. "They totally opposed apartheid, so we left." He started his career in Auckland at 19 performing live on Auckland's nightclub circuit.
John Sumner (director) (1924–2013), English-born Australian artistic director and founder of Melbourne Theatre Company. Religion. John Sumner (priest) (died 1772), Canon of Windsor and Headmaster of Eton College. John Bird Sumner (1780–1862), bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury. Other.
John Hackman Sumner, CBE, AO (27 May 1924 – 24 May 2013) was an English-born director and producer and theatre impresario, who was the founder and artistic director of Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, gathering a group of later internationally famous stars including Ray Lawler, Zoe Caldwell, Barry Humphries and Fred Parslow.
John S. Sumner. John Saxton Sumner in 1915. John Saxton Sumner (September 22, 1876 - June 20, 1971) headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), a New York state censorship body empowered to recommend obscenity cases to the appropriate prosecutors.
May 25, 2013 · English born John Sumner AO CBE, the longest serving artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, died yesterday (Friday 24 May) after a brief illness, according to a statement from the MTC.
John Sumner. Biography. Having lived in England and South Africa (Cape Town) John arrived in New Zealand with his family at the age of 9. "They totally opposed apartheid, so we left." He started his career in Auckland at 19 performing live on Auckland's nightclub circuit.
John Sumner was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. He also was featured in the miniseries "Stephen King's The Tommyknockers" (1992-93). Sumner launched his...
John Sumner & Ray Lawler. The story of MTC couldn't be told without the stories of John Hackman Sumner and Raymond Evenor Lawler, the theatre makers whose names now adorn Southbank Theatre's two performance spaces.
John Sumner AO CBE (1924–2013), described as the 'father of Australian drama', was born in England and trained and worked in repertory theatre there before World War 2.
John Sumner was appointed to replace Anthony Comstock on this day as leader of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV). He pledged to continue Comstock’s censorship crusade against alleged indecent literature under the 1873 Comstock Act ( March 3, 1873 ), the most important federal censorship law for almost 100 years.
