... Howard was bom on April 7, 1918. and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He first became a journalist and in the Second World War joined the RNVR. After being demobbed, he started his acting career in the film While the Sun Shines in 1946, a comedy ...

... who died aged 77 on January 23, was one of those British opera singers whose career was delayed by the onset of the Second World War. Bom in London, the youngest of 15 children, he was recognised as an outstanding prospect in child hood, but had to leave ...

... negotiating contracts for Edith Evans. Passing up the opportunity of going to the USA with Auriol Lee on the outbreak of the Second World War, she went to work for American agent Myron Selznick, whose London office was run by David Tennant. When Tennant departed ...

... Olympics when a mining accident put an end to his boxing career. The accident left him unfit for mil itary service in the Second World War but when the Allies entered Caen, he was transferred to Scotland. Two years later, he was working as a tapper at the ...

... considering contrasting careers in the police and the church, he was accepted at RADA in the mid- thirties. After the Second World War broke out, he was sent to France as a commissioned officer in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but was captured, and interned ...

... Johnny Claes. I adopting the name Tex Kershaw, I one of several Graham acquired throughout his early career. Following the Second World War he worked with many name bands with a jazz tinge, among them Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson and Nat Gonella, before forming ...

... died only a few days before her, Isabel Dean was a member of the com pany assembled by John Gielgud to appear in the Second World War revival of Love for Love at the Haymarket. She returned to the team for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, in which ...

... first to Gaumont- British, before moving to Alexander Korda's London Rims at Denham as production manager. After the Second World War. during which Dunbar worked for the Ministry of Information and other similar organisations in various countries, he ...

... produc tion of Journey's End decided he would become an actor. A lifelong pacifist, he chose to be a firefighter in the Second World War, as opposed to the alternative choice of Bevin Boy in the mines. Donald was sent to Cardiff, where he operated the curtains ...

... Flint. His first acting job was with the Welsh National Theatre Company, before he moved to Liverpool Playhouse. The Second World War started almost as soon as Edwards arrived. He was a conscientious objector and was drafted into the fire service in Liverpool ...

... Outside Broadcasts. He joined the BBC as an Effect Boy at the age of 15. His BBC career was interrupted in 1939 by the Second World War, and he went off to fight for his country, first in the Army, then later in the Royal Air Force. On his return to the ...

... the Mermaid, and wrote a novel, The Christening, published when he was 70. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He leaves a widow. Peter Heppte OBITUARIES ...