Edward Atienza is a British stage and film actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. He made his first London theatre appearance in the role of Mole in Toad of Toad Hall

Toad of Toad Hall

Toad of Toad Hall is the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. It was written by A. A. Milne, with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson....

at the Prince's Theatre.

Biography

Edward Atienza was born in 1924, in London, England. His parents were Alvaro Atienza and Dulce Atienza (née Laws). He attended the Sutton Valence School

Sutton Valence School

Sutton Valence School is an English independent school near Maidstone in southeast England. It has about 520 pupils. It is a co-educational school with a boarding option . The three boarding houses are Westminster, St Margaret's and Sutton and, for those in the first and second form, Beresford...

 and King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

. Atienza trained for the stage at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London. LAMDA's president is Timothy West and its new principal is Joanna Read, who recently succeeded Peter James...

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Stage work

Edward Atienza made his professional stage debut in the role of the Butler in a 1949 production of Up in Mabel's Room

Up in Mabel's Room

Up in Mabel's Room is a 1944 film directed by Allan Dwan based on the play by Wilson Collison. It stars Marjorie Reynolds and Jack Oakie. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1945. Remake of a 1926 silent film.-Cast:...

. He went on to appear with the Memorial Theatre Company from 1950 through 1954. Atienza made his first appearance in London theatre was in the role of Mole in Toad of Toad Hall

Toad of Toad Hall

Toad of Toad Hall is the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. It was written by A. A. Milne, with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson....

at the Prince's Theatre in December 1954. In 1956, Atienza appeared in a musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 version of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...

. Atienza made his Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 debut in a 1957 production of Romanoff and Juliet at the Plymouth Theatre. Atienza also appeared in productions of Macbeth

Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...

and Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...

on Broadway. He also was in the 1962 Broadway play The Affair

The Affair (play)

The Affair is a 1962 play by Ronald Miller based on the novel by C.P. Snow.-Synopsis:A group of professors at Cambridge University try to hire an old colleague back even though they all don't like him, they all agree he was dismissed unfairly....

. British at which Atienza has appeared include the Queen's Theatre

Queen's Theatre

The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It opened on 8 October 1907 as a twin to the neighbouring Gielgud Theatre which opened ten months earlier. Both theatres were designed by W.G.R...

, the Mermaid Theatre

Mermaid Theatre

The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre at Puddle Dock, in Blackfriars, in the City of London and the first built there since the time of Shakespeare...

, and the Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....

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Film work

Edward Atienza made his film debut in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate (film)

The Battle of the River Plate is a 1956 British war film by director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch...

. Other films he has appeared in include Sword of Freedom

Sword of Freedom

Sword of Freedom was a 1958 drama adventure series for a family audience. Like several of its predecessors , it was produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and fitted into the same swashbuckler genre as previous productions...

in 1957, the 1961 film adaptation of Romanoff and Juliet

Romanoff and Juliet (film)

Romanoff and Juliet is a 1961 feature film adaptation of the play of the same name released by Universal Pictures. Peter Ustinov wrote the screenplay, directed, and starred in the film...

, Lock Up Your Daughters

Lock Up Your Daughters (film)

Lock Up Your Daughters is a 1969 film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name. It stars Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, and Ian Bannen, and lacks all the songs from the original stage production....

in 1969, and Sarah

Sarah (film)

Sarah is a 1982 Australian animated film. It was written by Elizabeth Kata and directed by Yoram Gross. Unlike Yoram Gross's other works, this film deals with more mature subjects.-Plot:...

in 1976. Atienza was nominated for 1997 Gemini Award

Gemini Award

The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...

 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series for his performance on Taking the Falls

Taking the Falls

Taking the Falls was a Canadian dramedy series, which aired on CTV in the 1995-96 television season.The show starred Cynthia Dale as Terry Lane, a former police officer turned private investigator in Niagara Falls who solved crimes with the help of her lawyer friend Katherine MacVicar...

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