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Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary

Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary
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Faulkner: he got his nickname Trader from his habit of stealing his father s whisky and bartering it at school for marbles - Alamy
Ronald “Trader” Faulkner, who has died aged 93, was an Australian actor, writer, flamenco enthusiast and a friend of Hollywood stars from John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier to Peter Finch, whose biography he wrote; with his matinée idol looks, Faulkner was a regular supporting player in Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s.
He met John Gielgud in 1950, when auditioning to replace Richard Burton in the transfer to Broadway of The Lady’s Not for Burning – directed by Gielgud. When Gielgud heard Faulkner’s real name, he cried: “ ‘Ronald!’ Oh, God! What a dreary name!’’ He was elated to learn that Faulkner’s “down-under’’ nickname was Trader: “We’ ....

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Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary

Trader Faulkner, actor and memoirist with a passion for flamenco and an infectious zest for life – obituary
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