Rex Harrison

In 1989 he was knighted. Movie reviewer Leonard Maltin said of him: "Droopy-eyed, dark, and suavely handsome, this extremely versatile actor was one of the most respected stage performers of his generation.". In 1978, he married Mercia Tinker, and this final marriage lasted until his death. His body was flown back to Puerto Rico where he was given a state funeral attended by thousands. His next wife was Elizabeth, former wife of actor Richard Harris, but they soon divorced. He died eight days later at the age of only 54. Kay Kendall died in 1959, and in 1962 Harrison married actress Rachel Roberts, whom he divorced in 1971. On October 16, 1994, a few days before his last movie, Street Fighter, was finished, Juliá suffered a stroke in his New York City apartment and fell into a coma.

He also starred in 1967's Doctor Dolittle. In 1993 he was diagnosed with cancer, but Juliá kept on acting, creating one of his most memorable roles as Brazilian rainforest activist Chico Mendez in The Burning Season (1994), for which he posthumously won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. Harrison was best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady, based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, especially after he reprised the role in the 1964 film version. In the popular two Addams Family movies, Juliá played Gomez Addams. It was rumoured that he tried for a reconciliation with Lilli, but changed his mind when he discovered that Kendall was terminally ill. In Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), he played a passionate political prisoner, and in Romero (1989) he played the Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero. Harrison and Palmer divorced in 1957, and he was soon remarried to actress Kay Kendall. In 1983, he starred in a spectactularly disastrous made-for-TV adaptation of John Varley's short story Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

The scandal of his affair with young actress Carole Landis, which led to her suicide, almost derailed his career. Although he never became a major film star, Juliá had notable dramatic and comic roles in a number of films and made-for-TV-movies. He followed that with his first major American film, starring as King Mongkut in Anna and the King of Siam. In the early 1980s, Juliá was invited to join Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios company and appeared in One From the Heart (1982). After several years in film, he achieved wide success starring in the adaptation of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit (1945). The stage successes led to his film debut in The Organization (1971) starring opposite Sidney Poitier. In 1942 he divorced his first wife, Marjorie Thomas, and married actress Lilli Palmer the next year; the two later appeared in numerous plays and films. Juliá went on to enjoy great success on the musical stage, winning four Tony Awards for his roles in Two Gentlemen of Verona (1972), Where's Charley? (1975), as Mack the Knife in The Threepenny Opera (1977), and in the Fellini-inspired Nine (1982).

He acted in the West End of London when he was young, appearing in the Terrence Rattigan play French Without Tears, which proved to be his breakthrough role. His Shakespearean roles included Edmund in King Lear in 1973 and the title role of Othello in 1979. He acted in various stage productions until May 11 of the year in which he died. In 1966, Juliá hooked up with theater impresario Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival. He first appeared on the stage in 1924 in Liverpool. He soon found work in off-Broadway theater. He died in New York City of pancreatic cancer. Juliá moved to New York City in 1964 and began studying drama with Wynn Handman.

He was born in Huyton, Lancashire, England. He first came to attention while performing in a nightclub by actor Orson Bean who encouraged him to come to the United States. Sir Reginald Carey Harrison (March 5, 1908–June 2, 1990) was a British theater and film actor. Juliá was born and grew up in San Juan. Won Best Actor for My Fair Lady (1964). His career spanned stage and screen, and included dramatic, comic, and musical roles. Nominated as Best Actor for Cleopatra (1963). Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 - October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor who lived and worked for many years in the United States.