Peter Daubeny

Who is Peter Daubeny?

Sir Peter Lauderdale Daubeny was a German-born British theatre impresario.

Daubeny trained with Michel Saint-Denis and began his career under actor-manager William Armstrong at the Liverpool Playhouse. Losing his left-arm at Salerno in 1943 led to him abandoning an acting career and staging his own productions including Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel in 1945. The London visits of the Berliner Ensemble in 1956 and the Moscow Art Theatre were organised by Daubeny.

He is best remembered for his organisation of the World Theatre Season, which brought foreign theatre companies to London between 1964 and 1975. Amongst other honours, he was knighted in 1973.