... worked with Harold Landey on Sunday concerts and, in the seventies, was responsible for bringing the Carpenters over from America for a national tour. He also represented several writers, mainly of television drama and comedy. Although resident in London ...

... force and inspiration behind this fine outfit since Heath passed away in 1969. Moira was born in Medillin, Colombia, South America, on October 13, 1910. In those days it was a primitive country, and her pioneering father sent his wife and four children ...

... Six Wives of Henry VIII, Elizabeth R, War and Peace, The Pallisers and two highly regarded documentaries Alistair Cooke's America and Dr Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. By the time he retired in 1980, Scott had risen to become deputy managing director ...

... personality was always apparent in her performances. She was born in Luton, Befordshire on September 29, 1934 and moved to America with her parents as a child. On her return to Britain she trained at RADA, where she was an out standing student and gave ...

... National Broadcasting Council for Scotland, when one of the judges was the late Yehudi Menuhin. Robertson had also visited North America to adjudicate at Scottish Fiddle championships. He is survived by two sons and a daughter. Gordon Irvine ...

... classics, and in his own comedy, Sweet Madness, at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1952. Two years earlier, he had spent some time in America, playing a spy in Rodgers and Hammer- stein's production of The Heart of the Matter. On his return to Britain, Jones joined ...

... during the First World War. As an actress, she made her London debut in 1919 in Tilly of Bloomsbury (Apollo) and later went to America, where she played small parts in silent films. In the thirties Swinburne was virtually never out of work and constantly appeared ...

... students who had in turn become successful. Her sister Sophie, who had married Devine, died in 1966, and Montgomery moved to America in the seventies. Harris received the OBE in 1975 for her services to the theatre and she recently moved to Denville Hall ...

... with Evelyn Lave. The two leads apparently did not get on well. In recent years he founded and taught at a theatre school in America and in 1997 gave a lecture at The National Academy of Performing Arts, where he was received rapturously. Patrick Newiey ...

... other countries around the world, Frank Patterson, who died recently aged 61. enjoyed the majority of his success in North America. After making his first public appearance as a boy soprano in his home town of Clonmel, County Tipperary. on leaving school ...

... Poor Horace was well received but his most successful was the thriller The Sound of Murder (1959), which also transferred to America and was filmed twice. Fairchild was also active as a television director of drama from time to time and was one of the founders ...

... NICHOLAS The younger half of the legendary dancing act The Nicholas Brothers, Harold Nicholas, died on July 3 aged 79 in America. Their appearances on stage and screen from the thirties onwards brought them international acclaim and high praise from the ...