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... and stage actor, died on January 1 9, after a sudden heart attack, age 66. in the American Hospital. Paris He was born in Dunkirk and after winning a competition played the music halls and cabarets as a singer of light songs Later he went into films and ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1979
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 339 | Page: 38 | Tags: notices 

Obituary

... A Hostess, with Yvonne Arnaud and Ronald Squire. He joined the army before World War II broke out and was evacuated from Dunkirk. Forming his own management company at the end of the war, ne pre sented a successful touring production of J. B. Priestley's ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 320 | Page: 28 | Tags: notices 

OBITUARIES: Charlie Chester

... that turned him into a national person ality. He joined ENSA in 1940 and was entertaining British troops just before the Dunkirk retreat. Next he joined the Army himself and became a sergeant in the Irish Fusiliers. He put on regimental shows and when ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1997
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 809 | Page: 32 | Tags: notices 

Robert Urquhart

... Pathfinders in 1972 and a num ber of war films in the fifties and sixties, including Foxhole in Cairo. Morning Departure and Dunkirk. It seemed that with his boyish but authoritative looks he was for ever destined to be cast on screen as somebody in either ...

Published: Thursday 30 March 1995
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 1142 | Page: 36 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Geoffrey Burridge

... director of entertainment and later as joint man aging director. An actor at York Repertory before the war, he was wounded at Dunkirk and after having been declared unfit for active service began an association with service entertainment which eventually resulted ...

Published: Thursday 15 October 1987
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 1505 | Page: 25 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Geoffrey Sumner

... y in films, appearing in Frieda (repeating his stage performance). The Final Test, Dangerous Years, Yangtze Incident and Dunkirk, graduating from playing boys to often sensitive and highly strung young men with ease. In 1958 he and his partner Eric Lind ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 2173 | Page: 39 | Tags: notices 

Marjorie Ristori

... as Harry and Mariorie Ristori. During the war they joined ENSA and were in Will Hav's company which was still working in Dunkirk two weeks after the evacuation! In 1956 she began directing pantomimes for Emile Littler. Her favourite subject was Cinderella ...

Published: Thursday 01 March 1990
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 3788 | Page: 24 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Alain Bernadin

... film made there, including Hue and Cry, It Always Rains On Sunday, Passport to Pimlico, The Cruel Sea, The Ladykillers and Dunkirk. He was also to be seen in most of the Carry On films and was a must in many of the films made by the Boulting brothers. He ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 3420 | Page: 9 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Tommy Trinder

... three shows to go out on E.N.S.A. In May 1940 they went to France but had only done one show when they hurriedly returned via Dunkirk. Gwen continued to work on E.N.S.A. and at one time she ran a four handed show touring the munition factories, whilst her ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 4185 | Page: 25 | Tags: notices 

Obituaries: Arthur Marshall

... Roehampton College for R.B.S. pupils, a scheme that capsized under the Labour Government. His only brother was killed at Dunkirk in 1940. ROY ORBISON. whose popularity in Britain remained undimmed for nearly 30 years, died on December 6 of a heart attack ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 5884 | Page: 24 | Tags: notices