Built in 1963, McCowen Hall was the first co-educational residence hall, and hosted nearly 30, 000 students over the course of its lifetime.

McCowen published his first volume of autobiography, Young Gemini in 1979, followed a year later by Double Bill ( Elm Tree Books ).

" McCowen appeared in the play on Broadway and on television for Channel 4.

McCowen has appeared in the films Time Without Pity ( 1957 ), Town on Trial ( 1957 ), The One That Got Away ( 1957 ), The Silent Enemy ( 1958 ), A Night to Remember ( 1958 ), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ), In the Cool of the Day ( 1963 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), The Witches ( 1966 ), The Hawaiians ( 1970 ), Frenzy ( 1972 ), Travels With My Aunt ( 1972 ) for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, Stevie ( 1978 ), Hanover Street ( 1979 ), Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ), The Assam Garden ( 1985 ), Personal Services ( 1987 ), Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), Henry V ( 1989 ) The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ), and Longitude ( TV, 2000 ).

In February 1973 he co-starred with Diana Rigg in Molière's The Misanthrope for which he won his second Evening Standard award ; followed in July 1973 by the role of psychiatrist Martin Dysart (" played on a knife edge of professional skill and personal disgust by McCowen ", according to Irving Wardle reviewing for The Times ) in the world premiere of Peter Shaffer's Equus.

* Alec McCowen on BFI

Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of George Steiner's novel The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. at the Mermaid in 1982 gave McCowen a great final speech, an attempted vindication of racial extermination delivered by Adolf Hitler, which for Guardian critic Michael Billington was " one of the greatest pieces of acting I have ever seen: a shuffling, grizzled, hunched, baggy figure, yet suggesting the monomaniac power of the Nuremberg Rallies, inhabiting the frail vessel of this old man's body.

Later stage roles included The Headmaster in A Voyage Round My Father, and Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion with Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg.

Two years later, again at the Mermaid, McCowen gave a portrayal of the British poet Rudyard Kipling in a one-man play by Brian Clark, performed in a setting that exactly matched Kipling's own study at Bateman's ( his Jacobean rustic haven in Sussex ) " and turning ", as Michael Billington wrote, " an essentially private man into a performer.

While preparing to co-star as Vladimir to John Alderton's Estragon in Michael Rudman's acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot at the National Theatre in November 1987, McCowen also spent a busy autumn staging Martin Crimp's trilogy of short plays Definitely the Bahamas at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, having previously enjoyed Crimp's style of writing in a BBC radio version of Three Attempted Acts.

Another 1964 production was a live screening of Clifford Williams ' Aldwych Theatre production of The Comedy of Errors starring Ian Richardson and Alec McCowen.

* Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra ( Shaw ), co-starring with Alec McCowen, Greenwich Theatre, February 1992

At the Royal Court in August 1970 McCowen was cast to play the title role in Christopher Hampton's sophisticated comedy, The Philanthropist.

In the original production in 1997, Alec McCowen played Attlee, and Michael Gambon played Tom Driberg.

It was directed by Clifford Williams with Alan Webb or Eric Porter as Pius XII, Alec McCowen as Father Fontana and Ian Richardson.

The novel was adapted, with large departures from the original story, for film in 1972 by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler, and directed by George Cukor, starring Maggie Smith and Alec McCowen.

Most recently, McCowen was torn down in 2008 to make room for new residence halls, North and South Hall.

On British television, Peter Gray and Maxine Audley starred in a 1959 presentation, and Alec McCowen and Penelope Keith took the leads in a BBC production in 1976.

This version was part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series and featured Felicity Kendal in the role of Viola, Sinéad Cusack as Olivia, Alec McCowen as Malvolio and Robert Hardy as Sir Toby Belch.

A 1982 BBC Radio 4 broadcast featured Alec McCowen as Orsino, Wendy Murray as Viola, Norman Rodway as Sir Toby Belch, Andrew Sachs as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Bernard Hepton as Malvolio ; in 1993 BBC Radio 3 broadcast the play, with Michael Maloney as Orsino, Eve Matheson as Viola, Iain Cuthbertson as Malvolio and Joss Ackland as Sir Toby Belch.

** In 1958, Alec McCowen enjoyed a major success as Mercutio in London.

The original cast included Frances Tomelty and later Rosaleen Linehan as Kate, Anita Reeves as Maggie, Bríd Ní Neachtain as Rose, Bríd Brennan as Agnes, Catherine Byrne as Chris, Gerard McSorley as Michael, Paul Herzberg and later Stephen Dillane as Gerry Evans and Barry McGovern and later Alec McCowen as Fr.

Alexander Duncan " Alec " McCowen CBE ( born 26 May 1925 ) is an English actor.

McCowen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Mary ( née Walkden ), a dancer, and Duncan McCowen, a shopkeeper.

McCowen and his co-star Jane Asher went with it to Broadway in March 1971 where he won the 1971 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

As Charles Spencer wrote in the Daily Telegraph: " As a director McCowen captures both the subtlety and the richness of these three original and beautifully written plays.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

approaching shore their masts appeared first.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Four years after the publication of The History Of England, the first volume of Trevelyan's Queen Anne trilogy appeared.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

The first report in this continuing series appeared in the September 1960 issue of the Journal.

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

The first eight of these eighteen statements, which received at least one-half of the votes, were duplicated to form an analysis checklist for the particular manager, and when this particular manager roleplayed in other situations, the members checked any items that appeared.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

In the orchestra we hear first a hushed, hesitant pizzicato figure, then the insistent `` police '' motif as it appeared in the opening scene.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first New York performance of Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival.

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.

The quantum number n first appeared in the Bohr model where it determines the radius of each circular electron orbit.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".