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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh /ˈwɔː/ (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966), known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour (1952–61). Waugh is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century.
The son of a publisher, Waugh was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a schoolmaster before becoming a full-time writer. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends, and developed a taste for country house society that never left him. In the 1930s he travelled extensively, often as a special newspaper correspondent; he was reporting from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War, first in the Royal Marines and later in the Royal Horse Guards. All these experiences, and the wide range of people he encountered, were used in Waugh's fiction, generally to humorous effect; even his own mental breakdown in the early 1950s, brought about by misuse of drugs, was fictionalised.
Actors: Ian Doig (miscellaneous crew), Tanya Mazur (miscellaneous crew), Millie Perkins (actress), Louis Febre (composer), Paul Colichman (producer), Jeffrey Schenck (producer), Paul Dooley (actor), Cliff Sumter (actor), Stephen P. Jarchow (producer), Ann-Margret (actress), Mary Kay Place (actress), Penelope Ann Miller (actress), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Cliff Sumter (miscellaneous crew), Chuck Speed (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,