Friday, January 4, 2013
A revolution in television puppetry was inaugurated by Gerry Anderson, who captured the imaginations of millions of children in the 1960s with a string of futuristic series, the most famous …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMCharles Chilton, who originated the satirical musical, Oh! What a Lovely War (1963), has died at the age of 95. It started out as a radio play and was then staged at the Theatre Royal,...
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Playing leading roles in the West End and at Stratford-upon-Avon, Joy Parker was forever in the shadow of her husband, Paul Scofield, something she never regretted. The couple met in rep in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMIn the forefront of the revival of folk music in the 1960s, Ian Campbell was one of the few entertainers to record a single that made the charts. This was his version of Bob Dylan’s...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMWorking with the cream of British comic talent, Bob Kellett directed a swathe of films that fell somewhere between the Carry On pictures and the Confessions series of sex comedies. After pro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMRobin Pemberton-Billing was the founder of the innovative Octagon Theatre in Bolton and was its artistic director for five years. The theatre, the first to be built in north-west England sin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
A key figure in creating the image of the Who, pop impresario Chris stamp founded his own label, Track Records, with his business partner Kit Lambert. One of their first signings was Jimi He…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMWorking with some of Britain’s leading jazzmen, including Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, pianist Stan Greig was widely admired for his blues and boogie-woogie playing. During the ear…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMAs an undergraduate, Philip Ledger took a double first in music at Kings College, Cambridge, and 16 years later was appointed its director of music, overseeing the most important date in its…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PMAs the fiddler with the traditional Irish folk group the Chieftains, Martin Fay never expected his career to follow the course that brought him worldwide celebrity. Having been classically t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMTo become a professional actor in mid-life is unusual, but not rare. But to make a farewell performance in a smash hit in the West End and on Broadway is something else. Fred Ridgeway did...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Vital ingredients of the success of the Merchant Ivory films were the scores, nearly all of which were composed by Richard Robbins. His music for Maurice (1987), adapted from the EM Forster …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMThe Aldeburgh Festival on the Suffolk coast had links with American composer Elliott Carter from 1968 until 2009, when he made his final visit there at the age of 100. His great age brought …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMThe only portrait photographer to win a BAFTA award for services to the film industry, Cornel Lucas worked for the Rank Organisation during the 1950s, creating images of a young Joan Collins…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMSunday, November 25, 2012
The actress Dinah Sheridan, who appeared in the classic films, Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970), has died at the age of 92. Her agent said she died peacefully at her home in …
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An invaluable figure in the smooth running of showbusiness charity the Grand Order of Water Rats, John Adrian endeared himself to all who met him. He was a charming, courteous, helpful man, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PMThe days of the summer show, especially those staged on seaside piers, are almost over. One who championed their cause in the latter years was Robert Marlowe, who became particularly associa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMWith superlative performances at the National Theatre and for the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, the work of actress Elizabeth Bell garnered such adjectives from critics with The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PMWednesday, November 21, 2012
All old-time variety acts had so-called ‘bill matter’ – short slogans that described them. Jackie Allen and Barbara chose Xylophonically Yours, an appropriate epithet for a fast-moving…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Widely respected among his peers, magician Alan Shaxon cruised the world presenting his act on luxury liners. In Britain, he was invited four times to stage shows at Buckingham Palace and wa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMWhen independent television arrived in Britain in 1955, Brian Cobby quickly established himself as a leading voice-over artist in commercials. He was heard extolling Surf washing powder and,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMSeeking neither fame nor fortune, Michael Marra was one of Scotland’s most influential singer-songwriters. His talents were so eclectic that it was impossible to classify him. He once said…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMFriday, November 9, 2012
As well as composing music for radio and television, Peter Cork was an inspirational teacher who became a close friend of his most famous pupil, Dudley Moore. When he was a boy, his parents …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AMAfter adapting his style to many different forms of jazz, the trombonist Eddie Harvey took to teaching, first at the London College of Music and then at the Guildhall School of Music and the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMIn an extensive range of acting work, John Clive is best remembered for a cameo scene in The Italian Job (1969), playing the manager of a garage at which Michael Caine’s Charlie Croker sto…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AMAn underrated actor, perhaps on account of his modesty, Joe Melia was part of the original casts of two of Peter Nichols’ wittiest plays, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) and Privates.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Clive Dunn, best known for playing Corporal Jones in the long-running BBC Television comedy series, Dad’s Army, advising those around him “don’t panic”, has died in Portugal at the a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMMonday, November 5, 2012
The actress Dorinda Stevens died on October 25, at the age of 80. Born in Southampton on August 16, 1932, she appeared in many well-known television series, including Fabian of the Yard, No …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMFriday, November 2, 2012
Frequently lavished with praise by Kenneth Tynan, the most influential critic of his day, the actress Daphne Slater divided her career between Shakespearean roles and appearances in televisi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMOne of the main presenters of TV-am’s breakfast programme Good Morning Britain, from 1987 until it lost the franchise five years later, was Mike Morris. He had been with TV-am since the br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:40PMFriday, October 19, 2012
In one of television’s most famous commercials, an elderly man is seen going from one second-hand bookshop to another trying to buy a copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley. He succeeds only wh…
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