Robin de la Condamine

Robin de la Condamine (6 November 1877 – 11 January 1966)[1] was an English actor who used the stage name Robert Farquharson.

Harold Acton wrote that he was "our last great actor" in the tradition of Henry Irving and that he was known for his "emphatic stammer" and his dandyish ways.

[1] In 1905, he played Herod in the English premiere of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, directed by Florence Farr, impressing critics Max Beerbohm and Robbie Ross.

[3] Yeats disliked his performance, complaining that Condamine was "over-emphatic and shoots his voice up and down the scale in a perfectly accidental way"[3] and that "You cannot play Foragel without nobility or any of my verse without pride & he has neither.

His best known role was in 1922 as the Count alongside Sybil Thorndike as the Count's daughter Beatrice in the first public performance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's controversial verse drama The Cenci, directed by Lewis Casson[1][3] Later in life he performed in radio dramas,[1] including the 1955-6 radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, in which he played Saruman and Denethor.