Career
His birth name was Edward Abbot-Anderson. He has been variously billed as "Alan Aynesworth," "Allan Aynesworth" and "Allan Aynsworth." He performed the role of Algernon Moncrieff in the premiere production of The Importance of Being Earnest, later telling Oscar Wilde"s biographer Hesketh Pearson that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph than first night." A.