... 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 ...

... a( New Cross and was later at Newcastle and Sheffield. He was managing director of Southport Hippodrome and after the second world war joined the Terence Byron organisation, becoming resident manager of Worcester Royal. Later he managed the New, Crewe ...

... aged 77. With his wife. Mabel Evelyn, he nan repertory companies in the North of England for eight years prior to the second world war. During the war and after wards, under the George Black management, he was stage director and company manager at the ...

... be studied at the Royal College of Music, and in 1935 joined the Carl Rosa Opera Com pany as conductor. Following the Second World War he joined the Sadler's Wells Company, where he did distinguished work, particularly as a sensitive interpreter of Verdi ...

... centres. She also ap peared in variety at the London Col iseum and other halls. She resumed her career just after the Second World War and was a popular attraction at many leading spots. ...

... 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 ...

... fall breaking his nose, and on another occasion balng chased around the darkened theatre by an escaped seal. During the Second World War, he threw an incendiary bomb off the roof of the theatre when it looked as though it could burn down the promises. ...

... 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 ...