G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton

writer, actor

G.K. Chesterton was born on May 29, 1874 in UK. G.K. Chesterton's big-screen debut came with Father Brown, Detective directed by Edward Sedgwick in 1934. G.K. Chesterton is known for Manalive directed by Joey Odendahl, Kaiser Johnson stars as Michael Moon and Mark P. Shea as Innocent Smith. The upcoming new movie G.K. Chesterton plays is The Man Who Was Thursday which will be released on Sep 14, 2017.

Prolific English poet, novelist, essayist G (ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton was born in London on 29 May 1874. He was traditional, extolling the virtues of the 'little man', and the romantic, pre-modern past. He rejected the experimental in art as well as life, and distrusted the state and the modern world. His _Father Brown series of detective novels center around a humble but clever Anglican Catholic priest; Chesterton converted to Catholicism at the age of 48. He was considered somewhat eccentric, idiosyncratic, and was fiercely opinionated. George Bernard Shaw disliked his work, calling him "a freak of French nature", and various men and women of letters disdained the comparative gaudiness of his thought and his work, and his unfashionable political conservatism. Nonetheless he was popular, and beloved by many. He died on 14 June 1936, the same year his autobiography was published.

  • Birthday

    May 29, 1874
  • Place of Birth

    London, England, UK