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Noël Peirce Coward (1899-1973) was a British playwright, most active in the twenties and thirties. Known for comedies featuring the upper class. In World War II, he talked Winston Churchill into making him an agent for British inteligence, and proved to be surprisingly good at it; his reputation as a comic celebrity helped loosen a lot of lips of the enemy. In the fifties he had a resurgence as a singer, singing his own comic songs.

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  • Noel Coward
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  • Noël Peirce Coward (1899-1973) was a British playwright, most active in the twenties and thirties. Known for comedies featuring the upper class. In World War II, he talked Winston Churchill into making him an agent for British inteligence, and proved to be surprisingly good at it; his reputation as a comic celebrity helped loosen a lot of lips of the enemy. In the fifties he had a resurgence as a singer, singing his own comic songs.
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  • Noël Peirce Coward (1899-1973) was a British playwright, most active in the twenties and thirties. Known for comedies featuring the upper class. In World War II, he talked Winston Churchill into making him an agent for British inteligence, and proved to be surprisingly good at it; his reputation as a comic celebrity helped loosen a lot of lips of the enemy. In the fifties he had a resurgence as a singer, singing his own comic songs. He was also an actor, mostly on stage, but with several film roles, including a memorable turn as the criminal mastermind Mr Bridger in the original The Italian Job. The other thing that's inevitably going to come up at some point is that he was as Camp as a row of tents, and although he refused to discuss his private life while he was alive, nobody was much surprised when his authorized biographer confirmed after his death that he was homosexual.
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