... one of the great talent discoverers and recording mana gers in the history of |azz, has died aged 76 A member of two of Americas most wealthy families his mother was a Vanderbilt Hammond was educated at Yale and spent some time in London in his youth ...

... settled in Hollywood, where he was featured in a number of films for television. He had a popular concert presentation called America in Song and Story for several years. ...

... OBITUARIES When RAYMOND MASSEY. who has died aged 86, left England and settled in America, it was a considerable loss to the London stage. He had played many parts with distinction, and although born in Canada, he had become a part of the West End scene ...

... Lonsdale's Aren't We AM at the Globe Theatre in 1923. Over the ensuing years he was seldom out of work both in England and America. But his ultimate interest was in directing, an ambition he achieved with the Wilson Barrett Company in Scotland in 1939. ...

... and it was in the capacity of screenwriter that he went to Hollywood just before the Second World War His reputation in America was made, though, as a novelist. HOWARD MORGAN, trumpet player with the Roy Bradley Comedy Orches tras for 14 years, died ...

... London Palladium six times, where they also did a Royal Variety Performance In addition, the act travelled through out Europe. America, Canada, Australa sia and the Far East, where their daugh ter |oined them to make the offering a trio, and the three not only ...

... she and Godfrey separated and he eventual ly moved the theatre to more spacious premises in Vilhers Street, later going to America. Molly Veness, who had originally trained at the Old Vic with Lilian Baylis, carried on with an acting career which seldom ...

... played clarinet like Artie Shaw and sang like Fats Wal ler was with the George Shearing outfit before the latter went to America, and broadcast many times with the Phil Cleary Band More recently he played with jazz groups at venues like the White Swan ...

... Writers Guild Award, the Peabody Award, the Christopher Medal, three Edgar Alllan Poe Awards from the Mys tery Writers of America and several prizes from film festivals in the USA and abroad. Only last June they were given the Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award ...

... illness, aged 79. Born in Sunderland, he came from a show business family. His grandfather Nathan toured with circuses in America and ran a troupe called The Jackley Wonders, while father George clowned his way through many London panto- mines. Nat Jackley's ...

... responsible for the development of the film Citizen Kane, but eventually fell out with Welles and after working for the Voice of America during World War II became a producer in Hollywood, where his films included The Blue Dahlia, Letter from an Unknown Woman ...

... medics said he would never walk again, let alone ride a bike He left hospital and cycled round the world, breaking the trans-America record on the way. His book. Sting in the Tail, was pub lished soon afterwards. A guitar and banjo player of note, he loved ...