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Claude ___MASK16___ Trevor ( 7 October 1897  22 January 1978 ) was a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television . The Misanthrope , or the Cantankerous Lover is a 17th - century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière . It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais - Royal , ___MASK45___ by the King ' s Players . The Imaginary Invalid is a three - act " comédie - ballet " by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes by Marc - Antoine Charpentier . It premiered on 10 February 1673 at the Théâtre du Palais - Royal in ___MASK45___ and was originally choreographed by Pierre Beauchamp . The play is also known as " The Hypochondriac ", an alternative translation of the French title . Leslie Stephenson Hiscott ( 25 July 18943 May 1968 ) was an English film director and screenwriter who made over sixty films between 1925 and 1956 . He was born in ___MASK25___ in 1894 . In 1931 he directed " Alibi ", the first ever depiction of Hercule Poirot , Agatha Christie ' s famous detective , with Austin Trevor in the lead role . He directed a follow - up , " Black Coffee ", also starring Trevor , the same year . Eleanor " Nell " Gwyn ( 2 February 1650  14 November 1687 ; also spelled " Gwynn ", " Gwynne ") was a long - time mistress of King Charles II of ___MASK51___ and Scotland . Called " pretty , witty Nell " by Samuel Pepys , she has been regarded as a living embodiment of the spirit of Restoration ___MASK51___ and has come to be considered a folk heroine , with a story echoing the rags - to - royalty tale of Cinderella . She was the most famous Restoration actress and possessed a prodigious comic talent . Gwyn had two sons by King Charles : Charles Beauclerk ( 1670  1726 ); and James Beauclerk ( 1671  1680 ). The surname of her sons is pronounced ' Bo - Clare '. Charles was created Earl of Burford and later Duke of St . Albans . William Miles Malleson ( 25 May 1888  15 March 1969 ), generally known as Miles Malleson , was an English actor and dramatist , particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s . Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films , with a fairly large role in " The Brides of Dracula " as the hypochondriac and fee - hungry local doctor . Malleson was also a writer on many films , including some of those in which he had small parts , such as " Nell Gwyn " ( 1934 ) and " The Thief of Bagdad " ( 1940 ). He also translated and adapted several of Molière ' s plays (" The Misanthrope ", which he titled " The Slave of Truth ", " Tartuffe " and " The Imaginary Invalid ") Night in Montmartre ( 1931 ) is a British mystery film directed by Leslie S . Hiscott and starring Horace Hodges , Franklin Dyall , Hugh Williams , Reginald Purdell and ___MASK16___ Trevor . It was based on a play by Miles Malleson .