Marion North was one of the leading figures in the development of contemporary dance in the UK.
The high point in the career of the television and film director, Jim O’Brien, was the 14-part Granada series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), set in the final days of the British Raj in India. His next major work, this time for the BBC, was more controversial - The Monocled Mutineer (1986), the story of an impostor, Percy Toplis, who claimed to have taken part in a mutiny of soldiers at a British training camp in France in the First World War.
The work of the Russian theatre director and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski was well-served by actor and author Jean-Norman Benedetti, who wrote three books on the man whose approach to theatre underpins most of modern acting.
As the daughter of a Spanish father and an English mother, Patricia Medina was blessed with a sultry and voluptuous beauty that helped her to land roles in more than 50 movies. Her publicists enjoyed billing her as “the most beautiful woman in the world”.
John Forrest, best known as an actor in British films during the 1950s, died suddenly at his London home in April, just short of his 81st birthday.
In the late 1940s, a boy soprano, Billy Neely, became a star of BBC Radio with such works as Ave Maria and the song that became his signature tune, Cherry Ripe.
After dropping out of RADA, Jonathan Frid moved to the US where he was planning to teach acting. Instead, he landed the role of a vampire in a television soap opera and became a household name.
Musician, composer, and author of arguably the most influential guide for aspiring guitar players, Bert Weedon was the inspiration for a generation of guitarists.
As one of the most expressive banjo players of his generation, Barney McKenna stamped an indelible mark on the sound of the Dubliners, who changed the direction and fortunes of Irish traditional music in the 1960s.
Michael Diskin’s death at the age of 49 has robbed Ireland’s theatre of a formidable managerial talent, whose sensitivity to the needs of artists was married to boundless support of them, and who transformed Galway into a creative hotspot on the island.
As the breakfast DJ on the first offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, Tom Lodge helped to change the way in which rock music was broadcast in Britain.
After ten years as one half of a singing duo with her sister, Stella Tanner began a successful 40-year career as a television actress.
Based first in Leeds and then in Manchester, BBC radio drama producer Tony Cliff contributed an impressive stream of plays for Saturday Night Theatre on Radio 4 and other outlets. The way in which he gently coaxed actors and carefully fostered scripts made him the favourite producer of many of those who appeared in and wrote for his productions.
As one of the emerging young dramatists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, John Arden was unable to share the durability of his confreres, Harold Pinter and John Osborne, partly because much of his work left audiences perplexed. But since his heyday, his work has occasionally been reassessed, leading to the possibility that posterity may treat him more kindly.
Charles J O’Neill began his theatrical career as a carpenter and toured the country with several musicals. He was resident at The King’s Theatre Glasgow as stage manager from 1961-63 for Howard and Wyndham.
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