... toured as a comedian, and his gifts with children made him popular in seaside concert parties and panto mime I n the Second World War. he joined ENSA as a party manager, travelling widely in North Africa and the Medi terranean Basin After the war, he ...

... Highgate School to Cambridge, where he was presi dent of its students' union and a member of the Apostles. During the Second World War, he was a major and awarded a military OBE. He became a barrister and then a solicitor. He was recruited into Equity ...

... Starting as a call- boy, and also sweeping the stage, he later appeared as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. During the Second World War he served as a major in tanks in the Eighth Army. He was also an entertain ments officer for ENSA in Milan, where he ...

... 1910, she went into the family clothing business, which was mainly supplying uniforms to the Forces. By the time the Second World War broke out she had become its director. Her husband Ronnie was a keen racegoer too, and she often accompanied him to meet ...

... first lessons, died in London on December 30, aged 50. Born in Leningrad, he came to London from Hong Kong after the Second World War and conducted his dancing school at Cambridge- circus. Almost every dancer of note passed through the school, and many ...

... plays of value, tor the time and in the main stream of modern drama, and as the founder and director of ENSA during the Second World War writes Ray mond Marriott. He was a manager and director of imagination, courage and discern ment. sometimes tyrannical ...

... school before launching himself as an actor at the Embassy, Swiss Cottage at the age of 18. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, he was employed in a variety of produc tions, mainly in London's small theatres, though he did have a season at Str ...

... small parts in radio drama with the BBC and joined Manchester Rep. He enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps during the Second World War and in 1944 was a leading light in ENSA, appearing in everything from Shakespeare to light comedy. On being demobbed ...

... died on August 20, was bom on June 7, 1920. He left Cheltenham College in 1939 to join the Army at the outbreak of the Second World War and ended it as a major, organising enter tainment for the British Occupation Forces in Germany in association with ENSA ...

... professional one. 'Mis', as she was known in theatre circles, was an enormous influence on Guetary's career and during the Second World War and after he appeared in numerous revues, music halls and cabarets in France, and also recorded sev eral highly successful ...

... with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Union, and then toured Ireland with Anew McMaster before touring with ENSA during the Second World War. He made his first London appearance and his television debut in the same year, 1946, the first being as Young Hector ...

... character actor in several films, specialising as a comic drunk He worked for a while with the late Ernie Lotinga. After the Second World War he formed a vocal quartet. The Four Har- moniacs, which toured variety houses, and when variety began to fade turned ...