... DAVID WROE. who has died aged 77, was trained as an actor at Bristol before the Second World War and had war service in the Royal Engineers, being stationed for a while in Gibraltar, where he acted with Anthony Quayle while in a service theatre com pany ...

... before the Second World War. With his lifelong friend Hugh Hastings, he set up the Byre Theatre in St Andrews as a professional venue. It was here that he met his wife Sabina, an American. He saw active service in the Navy during the Second World War indeed ...

... DENIS DOWLING Denis Dowling, a singer closely associated with British opera since before the Second World War, has died aged 86. Bom in Rarrfurly, New Zealand on June 14, 1910, he started his working life as a farmer in Otago. but like many other Antipodean ...

... he was a stalwart on the theatri cal and cinema scene in the west of Scotland when the Citizens' was founded after the Second World War, and was on the board of the Scottish Orchestra. He was a leading cinema owner in the west of Scotland, and built the ...

... had a Scottish name and played many Scottish charac ters he was in fact bom in London. Evacuated to Bathgate during the Second World War, he went to Aberdeen University and had early experience in theatre at Edinburgh and St Andrews. Much of his television ...

... was a member of the RAF dance orchestra, broadcast ing from its base in Oslo. He joined Sid in December 1945 after the Second World War. In Guernsey, he led a group at Ronnie Ronalde's and was a teacher. John Pope ...

... his music hall act playing Zotti the Musical Wonder and formed a musical trio, called The Three Urchins, during the Second World War with her younger brother Ross (then a comedy drummer), which toured with ENSA for several years. Later, Cissie toured ...

... Whiteleys. When she broke away from this act. she toured as a solo -performer in this country and overseas. During the Second World War she married Ron Weston, another variety performer who was serving at the time with the Commandos, but she continued in ...

... almost total blindness. Bom in Dundee and trained at the Old Vic School, he was a member of the Old Vic Company before the Second World War and appeared in John Gielgud's famous Hamlet in the West End. He was at the Cambridge Festival Theatre and had repertory ...

... founder member of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, he made his home in Bearsden, near Glasgow, at the outbreak of the Second World War, when that orchestra moved to Glasgow from Edinburgh. He taught students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Miisir in Glasgow ...

... appearing in Julius Caesar at His Majesty's Theatre and playing a few small roles in films. Before the outbreak of the Second World War she had broken away from the studio to undertake various reporting assignments, often of a hazardous nature, and rejoined ...

... started working at the age of 11 as a stage hand, controlling the limes at the Metropole Theatre in Glasgow. After the Second World War he became stage manager at the Empress Theatre at St George's Cross, Glasgow, and was probably the youngest stage manager ...