Letter: Sir Michael Gambon obituary
Michael Billington's obituary of Michael Gambon recounts how he got his first professional role at the Gate theatre in Dublin by writing a letter full of supposed roles he had played in London. He was following good precedent: a very young Orson Welles did the same thing, turning up in person and claiming a distinguished past. I saw Gambon in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land at the Gate. During the play Gambon showed hi…