George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Born: 26-Jul-1856Birthplace: Dublin, IrelandDied: 2-Nov-1950Location of death: Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, EnglandCause of death: Accident - FallRemains: Cremated (ashes scattered)
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright
Nationality: Ireland
Executive summary: Irish dramatist and pamphleteer
Father: George Carr Shaw (corn miller)
Wife: Charlotte Payne-Townshend (heiress, m. 1898, d. 1943)
Administrator: London School of Economics
Nobel Prize for Literature 1925 (refused)
Oscar for Best Screenplay 1939 for Pygmalion
Risk Factors: Vegetarian
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Major Barbara (14-May-1941) · Himself
Wrote plays:
The Devil's Disciple (1897)
Arms and the Man (1898)
Mrs Warren's Profession (1898)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900)
Man and Superman (1902)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
Major Barbara (1905)
Androcles and the Lion (1912)
Pygmalion (1913)
Heartbreak House (1919)
Saint Joan (1923)
