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An American actor and director who moved to Britain in the 1950s after becoming fearful of the Hollywood blacklist for his communist sympathies, and spent the following decades building a major career in British theater while continuing film and television work. He is remembered above all for leading the decades-long campaign to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, a project completed only after his death and honored in the name of its second stage, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.