Geoffrey Nares


Geoffrey Owen Nares was a British stage actor, a designer, and the younger son of actor Owen Ramsay Nares and his wife, actress Marie Pollini.

Life and career

Nares' stage debut was at the Adelphi Theatre on 17 December 1934 where he played The stable boy in The Winning Post. In 1935, at the Globe Theatre, he played Kim Oldham in Grief Goes Over and that same year he played Martin Hilton in Call it a day in which his father, Owen, had the leading role as Roger Hilton.

Death

In 1941, Nares joined the 12th Royal Lancers and fought a hard war in the desert during which he contracted pappataci fever virus. He died in Cairo of a brain tumor, and was buried at the Heliopolis War Cemetery.