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... the less glamorous position of staff accompanist, and then chorus master, with the infant BBC Television. During the Second World War, he conducted the Radio-France Symphony Orches-tra, and worked in intelli gence, being invalided out after four and half ...
... usually casting her alongside comedians of the day such as Fred Emney and Tommy Trinder. She was at her busiest during the Second World War. juggling radio and stage appear ances along with entertaining the troops. She visited Scapa Flow with Evelyn Laye and ...
... he joined the Royal Navy Training Ship Exmouth and transferred later to the Royal Fusiliers as a band boy. During the Second World War he was a captain in the Royal Army Service Corps where he was also responsi ble for staging shows for the troops. In ...
... trombone players, Ted Heath, offered Moira a lift home. Within two weeks he had proposed, and they were married in 1933. The Second World War was well under way, and Heath had moved to the Geraldo Orchestra, when Moira suggested he set a poem she had written ...
... the part of John Royd in Quiet Wedding for the 1941 movie version starring Margaret Lockwood and Derek Farr. During the Second World War Tomlinson served in the RAF as a pilot and flying instructor, but resumed his film career in 1945 with good roles in ...
... 1934 production of Hamlet. A role Guinness reprised in Olivier's 1937 production, as well as understudying Olivier. The Second World War inter rupted his career and he joined the Royal Navy as a rating in 1941. At the end of the conflict he rejoined the ...
... that he peeled millions of potatoes. Then when he was 16 he pretended to be 18 and joined the Royal Navy. During the Second World War he served in a mine sweeper and was awarded the DSM. It was in 1948 that he was discharged with a stomach complaint. ...
... Importance of Being Earnest, his supreme achievement in sophisticated comedy as both actor and direc tor. During the Second World War he toured widely, acting Hamlet for about the 500th time at the Cairo Opera House in 1946. As often in his career, after ...