With a background in law, Felix Dexter emerged as one of the most versatile comedy actors of his generation. He came to prominence in the BBC television sketch show The Real McCoy (1991-96),…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:32PMAs finance director of HM Tennent, the once all-powerful West End theatrical production company, James Noble played a part in the careers of some of the leading playwrights and actors of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMIn a lengthy career, the distinguished actor Paul Rogers excelled in plays by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Pinter. Before he reached the age of 40, he played Lear and Falstaff, and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMTributes have been paid to the comedy actor, Felix Dexter, who died last Friday from a form of bone marrow cancer, aged 52. David Baddiel described his death as “a real loss to comedy;” …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMA producer with his father’s film company, Hammer, Anthony Hinds turned horror movies into big business, making international stars of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Although many cine…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMOne of the first country singers to appeal to the pop market, Marvin Rainwater topped the British charts for three weeks in 1958 with Whole Lotta Woman, which he wrote himself. Considered ri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53PMTony award-winning actor Paul Rogers has died at the age of 96. His family issued a statement saying that his career, which began in 1938, continued until he retired in 1997. “He was never…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMFor more than 70 years, Fred Cox was a pillar of the world of old-time variety with his identical twin brother, Frank. As leading members of the Royal Air Force gang shows, under the auspice…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:52PMIn spite of being the right man in the right place at the right time, Jackie Lomax never became the pop star that many people expected. The Beatles, in particular, were fans and signed him...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThe innovative and award-winning broadcaster Tom Vernon became best known for his Fat Man on a Bicycle programmes, in which he cycled from Scandinavia to south America, chatting to people he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMA war-time hero, Kenneth Wallis doubled for Sean Connery in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), flying an autogiro he had designed and built himself. The scene in question involv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:37AMParadoxically, the British pop singer David Garrick, named after the 18th-century actor, enjoyed much greater success in West Germany and the Netherlands than he did in the country of his bi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:36PMDuring a career that lasted 50 years, Bill Wallis conquered Shakespearean roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and excelled in satirical stage work. He was thrown into comedy at Cambridg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMOnce described by a society photographer as one of the 10 most beautiful women in Britain, Joan Regan enjoyed stardom as a leading singer of the 1950s. But, in spite of her hits, her o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMAn actress of extraordinary versatility, Olga Lowe was as adept in a Chekhov drama as she was in a Carry On film. She could also stop a West End musical dead in its tracks. She...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMHaving made her professional debut at the Norwich Empire, the jazz pianist Marian McPartland moved to America at the end of the Second World War and hosted a radio programme that ran for mor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMDuring a long career in television, Jim Capper was associated with many landmark series, including Doctor Who, When the Boat Comes In, All Creatures Great and Small, Tenko, Bergerac and Love…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMA founding member of the Lindsay String Quartet, Roger Bigley went on to be the principal viola player with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and carved a reputation for himself as a much respe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMAt one time rivalling Morecambe and Wise, the comedy double act comprising Mike Winters and his brother Bernie never achieved the long-term popularity accorded to Eric and Ernie. While BBC T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMHaving worked as an actress, Rosemary Vercoe moved into designing for theatre and the opera, and was particularly associated with the productions of Jonathan Miller. At Chelsea School of Art…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMEven those for whom the 2012 summer Olympics held little attraction had to admit that the opening ceremony, in which the stuntman Mark Sutton, doubling as Daniel Craig’s James Bond, and Ga…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMMike Winters, the straight man to his brother, Bernie, in the comedy double act, Mike and Bernie Winters, has died at the age of 82. The brothers were pioneers of television comedy, first ap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMWith a finely tuned sense of humour, John Amis contributed much to both the serious and light-hearted sides of musical life in Britain. To most people, he was famous for his whistling solos …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMA clutch of awards were won by the television writer Elaine Morgan, who also gained fame through her espousal of a feminist theory of evolution. She won two BAFTAs and two Writers’ Guild a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMSinging trio the Kaye Sisters, at one time rivals of the indestructible Beverley Sisters, lost their lead singer with the death of Shirley Palmer, known as Shan. During the late 1950s, their…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMThe lengthy and varied career of the actress Rona Anderson ran in parallel with that of her husband Gordon Jackson, best remembered now for his portrayal of the butler Angus Hudson in the te…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMIn spite of a full career of radio and television work, the Sri Lankan born British actor David Spenser will still be remembered for one of his first jobs, playing William Brown in a radio...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMThe varied career of Briony McRoberts got off to a flying start when she was 18. At the Haymarket, she was cast in the title role of William Douglas Home’s play, Betsy, the story of...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMAlthough he worked on two television police series in the 1950s, Leslie Gilliat devoted a large part of his career to producing films for the big screen, most notably three of the St Trinian…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMAs one of the leading British Asian actors working in theatre, the cinema and on television, Paul Bhattacharjee was best known for his appearances as a doctor in the James Bond film Casino R…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMEminently 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…
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