“[He] trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, alongside such classmates as Peter O’Toole, Alan Bates and Albert Finney. He never attained the cinematic stardom of those three, but he arguably exceeding their achievements by leaps and bounds in the theatre, an art to which he devoted the lion’s share of his efforts” – most notably at Canada’s Stratford Festival, where he spend four decades playing everyone from Macbeth to Tartuffe to Trigorin to Lady Bracknell.