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Born Peter Jeremy William Huggins on 3 November 1933, Jeremy Brett studied at Eton and the Central School of Speech and Drama before making his professional acting debut in 1954 with the Library Theatre in Manchester, later joining the Old Vic company in London.
With his dashing good looks and elegant demeanour, Brett was frequently cast in period or classical roles both on stage and on television.
He was especially fine in macabre or gothic pieces such as the adaptations of Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray (Armchair Theatre, ITV, tx.
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22/1/1961), Strindberg'sThe Ghost Sonata (BBC, tx. 16/3/1962) and later Robert Muller's undervalued 'Club of the Dammed' anthology, Supernatural (BBC, 1977).
The most significant of his infrequent feature film roles was as Eliza Doolittle's unsuccessful suitor Freddy in the Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady (US/UK, d.
George Cukor, 1964), in which Bill Shirley dubbed his vocals even though Brett regularly san