Geoffrey Nares
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Geoffrey Owen Nares (10 June 1917 – 20 August 1942) was a British stage actor, a designer, and the younger son of actor Owen Ramsay Nares and his wife, actress .
Life and career[]
Nares' stage debut was at the Adelphi Theatre on 17 December 1934 where he played The stable boy in . In 1935, at the Globe Theatre, he played Kim Oldham in and that same year he played Martin Hilton in in which his father, Owen, had the leading role as Roger Hilton.
Death[]
In 1941, Nares joined the 12th Royal Lancers (The Prince of Wales's Royal Regiment of Lancers) and fought a hard war in the desert during which he contracted pappataci fever virus (also known as Phlebotomus fever and sandfly fever). He died in Cairo of a brain tumor, and was buried at the Heliopolis War Cemetery.
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