Maurice Chevalier

. Sir Thomas Courtenay was knighted in 2001. Maurice Chevalier's trademark laugh is transcribed as "Onh-onh-onh," according the experts on the topic. In 2003 he appeared on the West End stage again in the one-man show Pretending To Be Me, as Philip Larkin. Maurice Chevalier died on January 1, 1972 and was interred in the Cemetery of Marnes la Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine, France. His best known film role after the 1960s is probably in The Dresser, (from Ronald Harwood's play of the same name, in which he also appeared), with Albert Finney. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street. He appeared in "I Heard the Owl Call My Name" on US television in 1973.

Chevalier's trademark was a casual straw hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo. His television appearances have been relatively few, but have included She Stoops to Conquer on BBC and several Ayckbourn plays. By the 1950s and 1960s, he rediscovered his popularity with new audiences, appearing in the movie musical, Gigi (1958) with Leslie Caron and several Walt Disney films. He showed his comic talent again by creating the role of Norman in Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy, The Norman Conquests. He was briefly married to the actress, Cheryl Kennedy. He returned to France in 1935, and spent most of World War II in seclusion, though he made brief appearances, on one occasion as part of a prisoner exchange. After the war it was rumored that he had been a collaborator, though these rumours were later disproved. His Hamlet at the Edinburgh Festival of 1968 marked him out as one of Britain's leading stage actors as well as a film actor. In 1930, Chevalier was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for two roles: The Love Parade and The Big Pond. He was born Thomas Courtenay in Hull, England, and made his stage début in 1960 with the Old Vic company.

By 1929 he had recovered and moved to Hollywood, where he landed his first American film role in Innocents of Paris. (In the latter two, he appeared alongside Julie Christie). After the war he became popular in Britain, and began a film career. At this time, he also made his first attempt at a career on Broadway, but this came to a grinding halt when he had to give up performing for several months because of a mental breakdown. Zhivago (1965). During World War I, he entered the armed services, was shot in the back, won the Croix de Guerre and became a prisoner of war. Tom Courtenay (pronounced "Courtney") (born February 25, 1937) is a British actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. In 1909 he became the partner of the biggest female star in France at the time, Mistinguett at the Folies Bergère: they were eventually to become long-time lovers.