About
American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He wrote the famous screenplays Cymbeline and Measure for Measure.
Before Fame
After his mother's death, his father remarried and he ran away from home to escape his stepmother and worked on a ship.
Trivia
He started his own production company, which he eventually merged with Paramount Pictures.
Family Life
He was married twice; the second time to Cecile Kibre.
Associated With
During his acting career, he appeared in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.