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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
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Life and career

Nares' stage debut was at the
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on 17 December 1934 where he played ''The stable boy'' in '' The Winning Post''. In 1935, at the Globe Theatre, he played ''Kim Oldham'' in '' Grief Goes Over'' and that same year he played ''Martin Hilton'' in ''
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'' in which his father, Owen, had the leading role as ''Roger Hilton''.


Death

In 1941, Nares joined the
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(The Prince of
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's Royal Regiment of Lancers) and fought a hard war in the desert during which he contracted
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virus (also known as Phlebotomus fever and sandfly fever). He died in
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of a brain tumor, and was buried at the
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* * 1917 births 1942 deaths English male stage actors 12th Royal Lancers officers Deaths from brain tumor Deaths from cancer in Egypt 20th-century English male actors British Army personnel killed in World War II Burials at Heliopolis War Cemetery {{British-Army-bio-stub