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2 unusual facts about Lyndon Brook


Lyndon Brook

In 1951, Brook was asked by Laurence Olivier to join his company at the St James’s Theatre in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

Brook’s parents sent their son back to England to be educated at Stowe School and then he gained stage experience at Cambridge University.


The Purple Plain

Forrester and his navigator, Carrington (Lyndon Brook), on a routine non-combat flight to Myitkyina, with Flight Lieutenant Blore (Maurice Denham) as passenger in the Mosquito's bomb bay, is forced to go down in a remote desert area of Burma's central plain.


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