... successful produc tions in the West End theatre, among them Donkey's Years, Moving and, in 1994, St Joan at the Strand. He was married twice, first to the actress Yvonne Bonnamy, secondly to Jill Jowett. Peter Hepple OBITUARIES As adept in modern plays as the ...

... her own career, preferring to support and sustain her third husband, the Labour politician Michael Foot, to whom she was married for more than 50 years. However, there were several other projects during the fifties. She adapted a Mark Twain story for ...

... Four years later, she received a bequest of £10,000 from a grateful former listener, Ethel Smith. In 1946, Anderson was married to advertising executive Anthony Sykes, who died in 1961. They had one son, who survives her. John Martland I Obituaries can ...

... dancer, she guested with Michael J's Band at the Majestic Hotel, St Annes, where she met her husband Allan Davey. They were married in 1952. During her time with the band, she met BBC producer Hamilton Kennedy, who featured her in his radio programmes as ...

... Albert Finney, appearing with him in Hamlet and Tamburtaine. He continued working until shortly before his death. He never married. Peter Hepplo ...

... day, and one of the 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 ...

... fifties, such as Mid-Day Music Hall. But she eventually retired to the house she had bought in Buxted, Sussex. She never married. Peter Heppte ...

... the nineties and becoming involved in training black producers for the educational radio services. Her husband, whom she married while at Oxford, died in 1971, but she is survived by a son and three daughters. John Martland ...

... radio show estimated at more than 20 mil lion listeners with a weekly mailbag of 6,000 requests. For a while after they were married in 1950, Metcalfe was the chief breadwinner, but only until the late fifties and sixties when Michelmore became one of the ...

... from that tour, he came back to Dublin to buy a house, but soon returned to New York because of high Irish taxes. In 1984 he married theatre critic Patricia O'Haire, with whom he lived in New York until he died. Aldan O'Sulllvan ...

... that I first met her and, with her petite beauty and her impish sense of humour, I fell in love with her straight away. We married in 1964 and worked together for Derek Salberg at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham. In 1966 we moved to London when I joined ...

... was never allowed an encore and had to slip off while the audience continued applauding. During the 1938 season, Saunders married Barbara Hislop. Their reception took place on the Gaiety's stage, where the scene had been set as the dining room on a luxury ...