Ralph Fiennes Interview, The Real TE Lawrence

Ralph Fiennes played Lawrence in the infrequently aired film 'A Dangerous Man' Lawrence after Arabia.
A motorcyle accident killed TE Lawrence in 1935. In this interview Ralph Fiennes explains that Lawrence was on his way back from sending a telegram to his close friend the writer Henry Williamson when the crash happened. Williamson was a Nazi sympathiser in England at the height of Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany.
Lawrence's popularity declined after 1922 as he spent his time in the lower ranks of the British forces only to be killed accidentally before the Second World War, this interview suggests that it may not have been an accident.

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[mcory987]

i love his voice omg.

[mitsymagicful]

@mcory987 thanks for commenting, yes he speaks well I agree.

[spiderlime]

it's far more likely that lawrence would have been offered a british military post in the middle east had he survived to ww2. there's a short story about him being sent after rommel. you can find the name of the author on uchronia.com

[mitsymagicful]

@spiderlime It's interesting that, but we shall never know..but makes interesting material for fiction writers I guess. Lawrence was an intriguing character and in some accounts he has some nazi sympathies so I wonder whether this story you talk of was trying to put the record straight..shall look it up, thanks for your comment, cheers Mitsy x

[Bunzypoo]

I'm in love with him.

[Biamedici]

I saw the television film on Lawrence, on PBS, without knowing anything about Ralph Fiennes, and was quite amazed sometime later when he showed up in "Schindler's List". I'd been very struck by his performance and looks as Lawrence and was then deeply impressed by the fact that, as Amon Goeth, he could make me forget them.

[QuietConstance]

There's a lot of historical info about the real T.E. on the internet; look up T. E. Lawrence Studies, T. E. Lawrence Society, and Clio Visualizing History (ton of photos & a short video here) for factual details of his life, plus (of course) endless analysis of who he was and how his actions influenced 20th century events....

[Dreamkillah1]

He's a fukn Spy that can't fight ! he's gay !

[llandudnoboy]

@mrjohnnyg713

Heaven forbid that you got this important fact wrong.

TE Lawrence was a Welshman being born in the now christian guesthouse come tearoom in Tremadoc just outside Portmadog on the coast in North Wales.

To be completely accurate the room where he was born is now a bathroom.

He was born there but moved away when he was 18months old.

[mrjohnnyg713]

Lawrence was not 36 when he died, he was born in 1888 in Ireland so he would have been 46/47. I'm surprised that Mr Fiennes got this wrong...