Laurence Irving (set designer)

This article is about Laurence Irving, the Hollywood set designer. For other people named Laurence Irving, see Laurence Irving.

Laurence Irving in 1947

Squadron Leader Laurence Henry Forster Irving[1] OBE RDI (11 April 1897 – 23 October 1988) was an artist, book illustrator and Hollywood set designer and art director, the son of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the biographer of his grandfather, the Victorian era actor Henry Irving.[2] His sister was the actress and founder of the Keep Britain Tidy Campaign, Elizabeth Irving. He lived and died in Wittersham, Kent in 1988, within walking distance of the house, Smallhythe Place, where Dame Ellen Terry lived, who was his grandfather's leading lady at the Lyceum Theatre in London's West End.

  1. ^ "Irving, Laurence, 1897-1988". Library of Congress Authorities. Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
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