... stage, screen and radio for more than 50 years, has died at the age of 77. Early success in two classic films of the Second World War years, Millions Like Us and Waterloo Road, was followed in 1947 by a five years as Joan Carr in BBC radio crime series ...

... GODFREY TALBOT His was one of the voices most familiar to BBC radio listeners during the Second World War, and in peacetime he brought immense enthusiasm and integrity to his position as the first broad caster to be accredited to Buckingham Palace. Godfrey ...

... CHRISTABEL LEIGHTON-PORTER Christabel Leighton-Porter who died on December 7 aged 87, was known to thou sands during the Second World War as Jane. She was the lady who inspired the strip cartoon of the same name in the Daily Mirror in which the heroine gets ...

... 1922 and educated at Wentworth School. From an early age she had wanted to be an actress but at the out break of the Second World War decided to study to be a nurse. She joined the Red Cross and worked at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in London. After ...

... Belle Vue Circus, Manchester and at the Kelvin Hall Circus, Glasgow for Gus Bostock's Circus. Austin spent most of the Second World War as a driver for the Air Ministry, after his application to be a pilot was turned down due to colour blindness. After ...

... Lady's in Love with You, and she made her first broadcast with Billy Tement later that year. After Italy entered the Second World War in 1940, Dawn's Italian parents were arrested and interned for five years. She lobbied Winston Churchill, but to no avail ...

... films followed in which he played small parts and he also worked behind the scenes as an assistant director. During the Second World War he joined Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammoir's company at the Gate Theatre in Dublin where MacLiammoir was appea ...

... insisted on playing the final two acts much to the perplexity of the audience. When Brixton Rep was bombed during the Second World War, she joined the Red Cross, rising to become the organisa tion's superintendent for North Wales. After the war, she contin ...

... cancer on March 8, was in demand from West End producers and provincial theatres throughout her career. Born before the Second World War, her parents were Harold Ingram who later became musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and soprano Christine ...

... enabled him to concentrate on his principal interest, the theatre, when he left Christ Church, Oxford, just after the Second World War. He was educated at Wellington, where he shone at languages and translated Shakespeare into Latin and Greek, in between ...

... to him touring Europe with notable engage ments in Paris and, on several occasions, with Maurice Chevalier. During the Second World War he served with the Intelligence Corps and, on being demobbed, met his future wife Vi, with whom he formed a comedy double ...

... in Eccles near Manchester, and won a scholarship from Man chester Grammar School to Keble College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer in Palestine, and on his return to Britain joined the BBC's northern region as a ...