Cyril Ritchard

Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard, known professionally as Cyril Ritchard, was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is best remembered today for his performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. In 1945, he played Gabriele Eisenstein in Gay Rosalinda at the Palace theatre in London, a version of Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in which he appeared with Peter Graves. The show was conducted by Richard Tauber and ran for almost a year.

1 December 1898

Born on the same birth date (1 December 1898): Stuart Garson

Born on the same birth day (1 December): Allyn Ann McLerie • Doug Mulray • Filippos Petsalnikos • Javier Báez • Jimmy Lyons • Joachim Hoffmann • Marco Greco • Masahudu Alhassan • N. T. Wright • Sun Yang • Tadeáš Hájek • Thomas Hayward (tenor) • Vangelis Sklavos

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