Scott Sunderland (actor)

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Scott Sunderland (19 September 1883 – 1956) was an English actor best known for his stage work, with a few film roles. Born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England, he was educated in England and Germany. His first professional appearance was with the F.R. Benson company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1909 as Douglas in Henry IV, Part 2, and he made his London debut later that year. On stage he played Feste in Twelfth Night; Ulysses S. Grant in Abraham Lincoln; Peter Dais in North of the Moon; and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew in the late 1920s. He acted in several George Bernard Shaw plays, including The Apple Cart. His Shaw experience and move to older, dignified roles helped him land film parts: Colonel Pickering in the 1938 adaptation of Pygmalion, and Sir John Colley in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). He also appeared in Here's to Our Enterprise, a May 1938 one-night show about Henry Irving. In the 1940s he did revivals and new work for the Birmingham Repertory Company (1942–1945) before retiring in the late 1940s. Sunderland was gay; his lifelong partner was the director Sir Barry Jackson. He died in Malvern, Worcestershire, at the age of 73.