... as adept in modern plays as he was in the classics and as equally at home on the small and large screens as he was in the theatre. Bom in Bristol on April 18, 1929, he was educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He became an actor as soon as ...

... of business, which he was to use in his capacity as an agent. In his late teens, Boyd worked backstage at various London theatres, notably as a stage hand at the Prince of Wales and later at the Victoria Palace. By his twenties, he had taken up the idea ...

... hall societies throughout the country. Cosmotheka were recently seen at Wimbledon's Studio Theatre and had been due to appear in pantomime at the Library Theatre, Solihull. Radio presenters including Sarah Kennedy and Derek Jameson regularly featured their ...

... musicians and bandleaders. Jimmy Blue, died recently at Perth, aged 70. He broadcast on radio and television and appeared in theatres throughout Britain as well as overseas. Very popular, he had a long association with the late Scottish singer and comedy ...

... consummate professional whose body of work ranged from prizewinning television drama to the whimsical Ballykissangel and from theatre to film. Irish arts minister Sile de Valera, leading the tributes, described Doyle as one of the foremost character actors ...

... under Annette Schultz in various pantomimes. She later formed a dance duo act called Joan and Laurie, touring music halls and theatres extensively for many years. After joining the Danny Lipton Trio, Davey became involved in a boy/girl overhead adagio act ...

... the company at the Dublin theatre at the conclusion of the tour. He remained there for several years, when the theatre was directed by FR Higgins, but in 1944, together with other Abbey actors, he formed the Players Theatre of Ireland. While working with ...

... on the North Wales entertainment scene, he began his career by managing nightclubs and promoting talent shows in the local theatres. In the seventies he ran the famous Stables Nightclub, outside Rhyl, which attracted major cabaret acts and achieved a certain ...

... notably in the legendary Half-Past Eight seasons starring Scottish comics at the King's, Edinburgh, and Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Audiences at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, saw her in the 1946/7 run of Jack and the Beanstalk, teamed with the late ...

... talking with difficulty. She nevertheless went to art college but yearned to work in the theatre. Her chance came when she persuaded her father to buy the Little Theatre Club, which she ran with dedication and devotion for almost 20 years. During that time ...

... Nuremberg, at the Kingsway. This was followed by modest roles in Noel Coward's spectacular production of Cavalcade, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and AP Herbert's Helen at the Adelphi, starring Evelyn Laye and George Robey. Around this time, Moira also ...

... with the Perth, Dundee and Glasgow Repertory Theatres, as well as appearing on the stages of Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre and the Byre Theatre, St Andrews. During the time she spent with the Belgrade Theatre Company in her home town of Coventry, Rogers ...