... of projects. She was responsible for the research, advice and personal commitment that led to LWT's contract with the Agatha Christie estate. On her return to YTV, Sandys produced a group of highly regarded versions of classics including Hedda Gabler and ...

... Llandudno, his home town, under the auspices of the director John Creese-Parsons. Whether it was playing a policeman in an Agatha Christie thriller, or a bumbling lawyer in a frothy comedy, Ward was able to shine. In pantomimejie worked for many managements ...

... actor, died in a London hospital on October 9, aged 58. He first played in the West End in Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie and later appeared in the same author's record-running success, The Mousetrap.'' He left the cast in 1968, having played ...

... her rightful place. Like Mrs Patrick Campbell before her, she had the world at her feet but kicked it away like a ball AGATHA CHRISTIE, who died on January 12. aged eighty-five, first turned to writing her own plays when adaptation by others seemed unsatis ...

... chirpy housekeeper in Our Man at St Mark's, she won a place in the nation's hearts as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, made by the BBC between 1984 and 1992. Agatha Christie herself had written to Joan Hickson after seeing her playing an old lady in one of ...

... Montague in Distinguished Gathering; Now, March 31, 1936, 44 Love from a Stranger (which he wrote in collaboration with Agatha Christie, and in which he ap peared at tho Fulton. New Yorlc, on September 29, 1936, when the piece failed to repeat its London ...

... twinkling eyes, had a magical effect on all the matrons wandering around on the desk. He was like a character from an Agatha Christie world Patrick Nawlay LORD WILLIS, who died on December 22 three weeks before his 75th birthday, will always be thought ...

... Staines, at midday. HENRI DE BRAY HENRI DE BRAY, the actor, died suddenly in Nottingham on April 5, while on tour in Agatha Christie's Alibi, playing Poirot A Parisian by birth, he came to this country with the Fren-h Players in 1911 and settled here ...

... in 1930 and later presented Elizabeth of England there with Malheson Lang and Phyllis Neilson-Terry. He presented Agatha Christie's first play, Alibi, a dramatisation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1928 and followed it with three other Christie ...

... by Mr. (Charles Laugh- ton, who had previously made a hit as Horcule I'oiro in t% Alibi, successfully dramatised from Agatha Christie's book. The stage version of Arnold Bennett's Riceyman 8teps should also be mentioned as amongst tho varied output of ...

... even tual closure. He retired after the war from the profession, but returned in 1953 to make a farewell performance in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Nile. He took an interest in the re-building of the Southampton Grand, and when it was re-opened in ...

... rousing hit with the number, A Good Bad Time. In 1977, he was at the Ambassadors' in Some thing's Afoot, a musical spoof of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers, which was followed by his best performance, with Julia McKenzie and Millicent Martin, in Side by ...