Androcles and the Lion
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Born in Kuala Lumpur, Gough started his career in the 1946 television movie Androcles and the Lion.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2011
In that year he met G.B.S., played in Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and The Doctor's Dilemma.
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He has two TV specials coming up the same week next month�as host of NBC's high-rating annual Ice Follies show and as Ferrovius in a Richard Rodgers musical adaptation of Androcles and the Lion.
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The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion and others, are almost always interesting.
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A couple, like "Androcles and the Lion" and "Day Dreaming," owe a similar spread to literary communication even though in the latter case it is the popular literature of the Arabian Nights.
From Europa's Fairy Book by Batten, John Dickson
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