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    Michael Rennie

    British actor (–)

    Michael Rennie

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    Born

    Eric Alexander Rennie


    ()25 August

    Idle, (Bradford) West Riding of Yorkshire, England

    Died10 June () (aged&#;61)

    Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

    Resting placeHarlow Hill Cemetery, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
    EducationThe Leys School
    OccupationActor
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    Spouses

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    PartnerRenee Taylor (née Gilbert)
    Children2

    Michael Rennie (born Eric Alexander Rennie; 25 August &#; 10 June ) was a British film, television and stage actor, who had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films, including his portrayal of the space visitor Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (). In a career spanning more than 30 years, Rennie appeared in more than 50 films and in several America

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    REMEMBERING MICHAEL RENNIE

    HOLLYWOOD ACTOR FROM YORKSHIRE

    With Yorkshire Day falling on the first of this month, I thought I would take a look at one of our very own cinema legends, an actor I admired greatly who made the big time in Hollywood. He became a very familiar face on British television in the late s as ‘Harry Lime’ in the series ‘The Third Man’.

    Michael Rennie was born Eric Alexander Rennie in Idle, Bradford in to James Alexander Cumming Rennie and Edith Amelia Rennie. Eric Rennie as he was known in those days was educated firstly in Harrogate and later at The Leys School in Cambridge.

    After leaving Cambridge, he tried several jobs including car salesman and also working in the Rennie family business of rope makers. Not surprisingly this was not the ideal occupation for him and when he was twenty-six he decided that acting was what he wanted to do. He retained his surname, but dropped the name Eric and became ‘Michael’.

    Michael Rennie served his acting appren

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    Michael Rennie (25th August to 10th June )

    After a long weekend in Scarborough I drove home through Harrogate to this church to find a specific grave. It was a still summer’s Monday evening when I backed the car into the cemetery. I had the place to myself and few cars drove passed Otley Road outside the church. War graves are kept clean and easy to prick and I could see them from the car. I had a stroll around the sju or eight I found and did a salute at every one. I always read the names and their ages not matter how far away the headstone is – everyone. Many were barely out of school uniform.

    Here I am by the grave of a prolific star of television, films and scen. His most famous role was Klaatu is the film The Day the Earth Stood Still but he was a jobbing actor over three decades, more than 50 films and many American television series. He wasn’t like Richard Burton who courted fame but a far more successful actor who knuckled down and go on with it.

    He was calle