Claud Sykes

Claud SykesProfessional actor, co-founder of the English Players, writer, and MI5 agent. Born in Ipswich, England, in 1912 Sykes married Annie "˜Daisy' Race (1885-1969), his co-star in Octavia Kenmore's and Leigh Lovel's London company. Sykes acted in two dozen productions of Ibsen between 1908 and 1914 before he and his wife relocated to Switzerland in 1915, ostensibly for Sykes's health. He and JJ first encountered one another in early 1917, and by the end of the year, Sykes was overseeing typescript production on the early episodes of Ulysses. With a mix of professional and amateur actors, JJ and Sykes formed the English Players, whose first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest in April 1918. Through late 1919, the Players produced nineteen plays in Zurich and toured Switzerland. Sykes returned to England in 1920. In 1927 Sykes read proofs and provided suggestions for the German translation of Ulysses, published that year. In the 1920s, he wrote adventure fiction in the mold of John Buchan before, in the 1930s, establishing himself as a translator and author of First World War aviation writing, often under the pseudonym "˜Vigilant'. His translation work from German proved an effective cover for counter-intelligence work and, by the mid-1930s, he was reporting to his MI5 handler using the code name 'M/S'. In 1939, he worked briefly as a double agent, feeding disinformation to a Gestapo agent in Berlin. His interests in the theatre continued: he produced plays for the Letchworth Citizens' Company in the 1920s and published the Rutland-theory inspired Alias William Shakespeare? (1947). He died in Malta in 1963. William Brockman and Ronan Crowley

克劳德·赛克斯，英国职业演员，英国演员公司联合创始人，剧作家，以及英国军情五处（MI5）特工。赛克斯于1912年出生于英格兰伊普斯威奇，他与安妮·‘黛西’·雷斯（1885-1969）结婚，后者是其同台演出奥克塔维亚·肯莫尔和利·洛弗尔伦敦剧团的合作伙伴。赛克斯在1908年至1914年间参演了易卜生的二十余部作品，此后他与妻子于1915年搬迁至瑞士，表面上是出于赛克斯的健康考虑。他与JJ于1917年初首次相遇，并在同年年底，赛克斯负责监督《尤利西斯》早期剧集的打字稿制作。JJ与赛克斯携手，融合了职业与业余演员，成立了英国演员公司，其首演作品为1918年4月的《 Importance of Being Earnest》。至1919年底，该公司在苏黎世制作了十九部戏剧并在瑞士巡回演出。赛克斯于1920年返回英格兰。1927年，赛克斯审阅了《尤利西斯》德语译本的校样，并提出了修改建议。在20世纪20年代，他模仿约翰·布坎的风格创作冒险小说，到了30年代，他确立了自己作为翻译家和一战航空写作的作者的身份，经常使用化名“Vigilant”。他从德语翻译工作中的表现成为有效的情报掩护，到20世纪30年代中期，他开始以代号'M/S'向MI5情报员汇报。1939年，他短暂地担任双重间谍，向柏林的盖世太保特工提供虚假信息。他对戏剧的兴趣持续不减：他在20世纪20年代为莱奇沃斯市民公司制作戏剧，并出版了受 Rutland-theory 启发的《Alias William Shakespeare?》（1947）。赛克斯于1963年在马耳他去世。威廉·布罗克曼和罗南·克劳利