Eminently capable of producing everything from political thrillers to period dramas, the television director Jim Goddard was particularly effective in masterminding plays that had the underw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:32AMAs an executive with Central Independent Television, Rupert Dilnott-Cooper successfully prevented legal action being taken against the satirical puppet show Spitting Image (1984-96), which p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMAs one of the first country and western singers to achieve widespread popularity in Britain, Slim Whitman once held the record for staying at the top of the British charts for the longest nu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMMuch of the success of the BBC Television sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003), which at its peak attracted 15 million viewers a week, can be attributed to its original producer, Ray But…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMIt has been confirmed that the actress, Briony McRoberts, has been found dead on a tube line near her home in London. She was 56. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances. For ten …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMThere have been many tributes to the comedian, writer and director, Mel Smith, who has died at the age of 60. Rowan Atkinson, who worked with him on the television sketch show, Not the Nine.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMAs a highly respected dance teacher, Judith Silvester trained thousands of pupils during a career that lasted 50 years. Although she was based at the Constance Grant Dance Centre in Sheffiel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:40AMIn the long-running Scottish sitcom Rab C Nesbitt, the less than intelligent Doddie, who got his kicks from sniffing shoe polish, was played by Iain McColl, who stumbled into acting almost b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMA versatile pianist, James Gibb took part in the D-Day expedition to France, part of the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. On his way across the Channel, he sang all the main themes from.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMPop music merged with the excitement of the space age to produce Telstar (1962), recorded by the Tornados, which was the first British group to top the US charts and whose keyboard player wa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMWhile bringing up four children on her own, Olwen Wymark wrote innumerable adaptations for the drama department of BBC Radio. Once the children were older, she branched out into writing play…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:20AMBy coincidence, the actress Katherine Woodville had the good fortune to be associated with two cult television shows. In Britain, she appeared in the first episode of the spy send-up The Ave…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMAs director of music at Trinity College, Cambridge, for nearly 40 years, Richard Marlow was a pioneer in the introduction of women’s voices into sacred music. While a choirboy at Southwark…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMThe virtual creator of the modern rock concert, Mark Fisher produced spectacular stage sets for some of Britain’s leading groups, including the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and U2. Once band…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMHaving started her career in rep, Doreen Hawkins, who was born Doreen Beadle, toured the battle zones of Africa, India and Burma as a member of the Entertainments National Service Associatio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMThe world of classical music in Britain was considerably enhanced by Hugh Maguire, the Irish violinist who led the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and took a deep in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMAs the youngest male principal in the history of the Royal Ballet, David Wall was outstanding in classical, romantic and humorous roles. But he will be best remembered for creating the part …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMWhen Bob Monkhouse was presenting the ITV game show The Golden Shot (1967-75), his warm-up man was Dave Ismay, who detected what he saw as a stark contrast in their styles. Monkhouse was as …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMA member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for 20 years, David Lyon was also a familiar face on television, most notably as a post-Thatcher, Conservative prime minister in the political thril…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMAs one of the small group of newsreaders and announcers on BBC Radio 4, Rory Morrison helped to give the station its highly distinctive sound. Many people listening at home to live news broa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMA dancer and chorus singer in a plethora of shows, Roma King was able to claim: “There isn’t a single stage in Britain I haven’t performed on.” Born into a showbusiness family, she w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:51PMAfter starting out as a dance band singer, Terry Devon went on to be heard by millions of radio listeners as one of the Keynotes, the group that accompanied the Frank Muir and Dennis Norden-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMThe longest-serving actor in the ITV soap Emmerdale, Richard Thorp played Alan Turner, a character who started out as something of a hate figure. But over the 31 years he was associated with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:13PMA trained dancer, Michael Hogan diversified widely by appearing in musicals and the cinema. It was while he was studying at the Royal Academy of Dance that he caught the eye of one of the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMAs the officious air raid warden in the Second World War television sitcom Dad’s Army (1968-75), Bill Pertwee did not have much to say or do. But he was crucial to the clever mix of...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMIn spite of losing an arm as a result of cancer at the age of 32, John Railton was one of the leading choral conductors of his generation. At the Royal Academy of Music, he...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMFor more than 30 years, Michael Gough Matthews devoted his life to the Royal College of Music, becoming its director in 1984. He fought hard to maintain its independence in Britain and its h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMAt the forefront of recording all kinds of music for EMI, Hazel Yarwood witnessed enormous technological changes during the course of a career that lasted for nearly 40 years. When she began…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:33PMThe composer of an extraordinarily wide range of music, Stephen Dodgson was particularly associated with his work for the guitar. Although at the outset he had only a rudimentary understandi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMIn BBC Radio’s everyday tale of country folk, The Archers, three of those folk were played by the same actor, Arnold Peters, although most of its followers associated him only with the ebu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMAs the principal dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Frederic Franklin formed a magical partnership with the legendary Russian ballerina Alexandra Danilova. They were seen in Tchaik…
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