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OBITUARIES: Nora Swinburne

... Party Risk. In 1938, under her own management, she presented and starred in Lot's Wife at the Whitehall Theatre. In 1946, she married the actor Esmond Knight (who had been blinded during the war), and for some years they presented seasons of plays in Bermuda ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 466 | Page: 33 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: HENRY BIRD

... achievements were the fire curtains at the Theatre Royal, Northampton and the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon. For many years, he was married to one of Britain's most well-known character actresses, Freda Jackson. She predeceased him in 1990. Patrick Newtey ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 152 | Page: 33 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: Douglas Fairbanks Jr

... with celebrities during his father's mar riage to silent film star Mary Pickford, and he hit the headlines in 1928 when he married legendary actress Joan Crawford. The marriage ended in divorce five years later. Fairbanks made his first credited movie ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 518 | Page: 29 | Tags: notices 

JOY SHELTON

... actor Jonathan Tafler. Bom in London, Shelton trained at RADA and made her professional stage debut at Brighton in 1940. She married Tafler in 1944 after they had worked together in Antony and Anna at the capital's Q theatre. After being spotted by Gainsborough ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 424 | Page: 29 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: MARGARET HARRIS

... famous, ranging from actors to directors and past students who had in turn become successful. Her sister Sophie, who had married Devine, died in 1966, and Montgomery moved to America in the seventies. Harris received the OBE in 1975 for her services to ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 432 | Page: 27 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: WILLY COTTRELL

... Asia in the twenties but went bankrupt in Rangoon during the monsoon season there. He and his Russian-bom wife Sofia were married in the British consulate in Bangkok and of their nine children, all but two became talented circus artists. They were bom ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 520 | Page: 26 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: ROBERT DUNBAR

... visiting film festivals, and spending more time with his wife Tatiana and their four children. His son, John Dunbar, was married to sixties icon Marianne Faithfull until she absconded with Mick Jagger. John is also credited with introducing Yoko Ono to ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 372 | Page: 27 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: WILLIAM MOORE

... preceded Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. Moore was in the original West End cast of JB Priestley's Yorkshire farce When We Are Married, and was also seen on stage in numerous other produc tions, notably My Giddy Aunt. In addition to 43 episodes of Sorry! throughout ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 259 | Page: 26 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: SALLY HARRISON

... Tring, and then joined London's Festival Ballet in 1956 as a member of the Corps de Ballet and later a soloist. In 1960, she married John Gilpin, principal dancer of London's Festival Ballet, and guest artist with the Royal Ballet. In the early sixties, apart ...

Published: Thursday 22 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 626 | Page: 27 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: GHISLAINE ALEXANDER

... Park. As a playwright, she wrote and produced Lucretia Borgia, which premiered at the Pitlochry Theatre Festival. She was married three times, and her third husband, pianist and composer Adrian Foley, survives her. Patrick Newiey ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 209 | Page: 36 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: FREDDIE HOLMES

... Pye-Nixa. Holmes worked as a sales manager for Rediffusion until his retirement. He leaves a widow, Doris, to whom he was married for 32 years. Chris Hayes ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 369 | Page: 36 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: AUBREY RICHARDS

... Guinness at the Lyric Theatre. He joined Laurence Olivier Produc tions, where he met stage man ager Diana Boddington whom he married in 1950. Aubrey is probably best remembered for his connection with Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. He played Sinbad Sailors ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 227 | Page: 36 | Tags: notices