... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Poll Winners Concerts at .Wembley Arena, which featured the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and many visiting performers from America. On stage, Kinn handed the trophies to the celebrity presenters himself. He was born in east London, and began his working ...

... 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 ...

... Peter Carlisle, who died at the age of 86 on October 1 6, was a dependable character actor who, although originally born in America, spent most of his theatrical career in Britain in both television and on the stage. His mother was the Edwardian actress ...

... 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 ...

... 50 years famously billed as Bob and Marion Konyot they appeared together in the atres and cabaret throughout the world. In America, the duo toured in the zany vaudeville revue Hellzapoppin, with comedians Olsen and John son, and also featured regu larly ...

... 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 ...

... her life Dare settled down in a London suburb, while Phillips, her most significant influence, continues to thrive in north America. He directed the current Broadway hit musical Jekyll Hyde. John Marttand ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...