... what she believed, both in and out of the theatre As such she won respect for her ideas, if not always for her way of expressing them. Initially an actress, she found her tiny size an impediment to getting all those roles she would have relished being asked to play on stage and screen, although she did make several hundred performances in the course of her career I knew her for over 40 years, ...

... REX JAMESON (better known as Mrs Shufflewick) who died at the age of 58 on March 5 in a London hospital, was one of the most unique and talented artists in British variety. He began his career in the RAF as a member of Ralph Reader's Gang Show and later made regular appearances at the Windmill Theatre in the company of comedians like Tony Hancock, Arthur English and Harry Secombe. The ...

... RAYMOND MANDER I died suddenly at the age of 72 on December 20 Though known best tor the famous theatre collection which he began with Joe Michenson in 1939. he started his career as an actor, with the London Repertory Players at Bedford in 1 934. His first West End appearance was at Dairy Lane in 1938 in Ivor Novello s Henry V*. subsequently acting in Room V at the Gamck, The Petrified ...

... VERA VLASOVA pupil of Stanislavsky and the last surviving member of the pre- Revolutionary Moscow Art Theatre, has died at Los Angeles just before she was due to visit this country She had lived in Hollywood for several years, teaching the Stanislavsky method to film and theatre players, and had kept in constant touch with the Stanislavsky family. She was 82 and leaves a son, the actor Robert ...

... ROY FINN, who was killed in the tragic car crash when he and other members of Century Theatre were travelling to Taun ton. was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has appeared with many regional theatre companies, among them Chesterfield, Windsor, Peterborough, Derby, Sidmouth and Birmingham. He had also turned exten sively. most recently with The Real Inspector Hound. He ...

... Professor CHARLES MCCARTHY, a member of the Abbey Theatre board and a former chariman, died suddenly at the age of 62 Professor McCarthy, head of the School of Business and Administra tive Studies at Trinity College in Dublin, was a former member oi the Radio Eireann Repertory Company and a founder member of Irish Actors Equity. His period as Abbey chairman, which ended last year, was both ...

... Pauline Grant PAULINE GRANT, who has died aged 71 was a director and choreographer who managed to combine work in opera, ballet, musicals and light entertainment with great distinction. Born in Birming ham, she trained at the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama, and began her career as a dancer at the People's Theatre, St Pancras in 1937 By 1940 she had started her own ballet company but ...

... Richard Lewis RICHARD LEWIS, regarded as the outstanding British tenor of his day, has died aged 76. His training at the Royal Manchester College of Music, situated in his home town, was interrupted by service in the Royal Corps of Signals in World War II. He began his career while he was still in the Army, appearing in concerts in Norway and Denmark, and made his British debut at Brighton in ...

... Richard Levinson RICHARD LEVINSON. whose part nership with William Link, established during their Philadelphia schooldays, produced some of the most successful television series in the United States and overseas, died suddenly on March 12 at the age of 52. Levinson and Link did a good deal to change the face of American television, having created 16 major series, includ ing Colombo, Mannix and ...

... John Counsell JOHN COUNSELL. who died on Febru ary 23 aged 80, was managing director of the Theatre Royal, Windsor for 48 years, which he first took over in 1933. after it had been running for three years as a cinema. Sensing that live theatre would be successful in the town, he achieved an immediate reputation for the quality of his work, but undercapitalisation meant that the first season ...

... Showbusiness entrepreneur Jim Muir It is with great sadness that we announce the sad death of Jersey's showbusiness entrepreneur JIM MUIR after a long illness. Jim Muir was the first hotelier to bring cabaret to Jersey when Midlands agent Billy Forrest made his first visit to the Channel Islands 38 years ago in 1949. Jim became Billy's first customer, took a gamble, and booked a guitar player ...

... Wilfrid Hyde White t who died on May 6, aged 87, was in a sense part of the international and British theatrical furniture. However good or bad the play or film was you want to see it because he was in it. He was always the same, a perfect light comedian, a great character actor and above all Wilfrid Hyde White. And that's the way the public wanted it. Born in 1903 in Bourton-on- the-Water in ...