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John Nettles

John Nettles. IMDB.

John Nettles is well known for two long-running television series in the UK, “Bergerac” which ran from 1981 until 1991 and concerned the live of Detective Jim Bergerac on the island of Jersey and “Midsome Murders” which he starred in from 1995 until 2011. He was born in St Austell, Cornwall and he studied at the University of Southampton. His films include “All Men Are Mortal” in 1995.

IMDB entry:

John Nettles has been a familiar face on British and International television screens for over thirty years.

From his early beginnings in the UK hit comedy The Liver Birds (1969), he became a household name overnight playing the Jersey detective “Jim Bergerac”. The series,Bergerac (1981), was a huge hit in Britain and was exported to many countries across the world including France, Spain and Greece, gaining him thousands of fans.

His new found fame as Bergerac gave him almost film-star-like fame and fortune, not to mention thousands of female admirers! Despite Bergerac (1981) being mothballed in the early 1990s, the series still has a considerable fan base and lingering popularity abroad, especially in Jersey, where images of John Nettles are still used for advertising tourist attractions and other services on the island. Nettles’ polished Shakesperean performances have won him critical acclaim and many consider him to rival fellow British stalwarts of theatre such as Patrick Stewart and SirIan McKellen.

English actor John Nettles who plays the character of Jim Bergerac in the television drama series ‘Bergerac’, pictured on location during filming in the United Kingdom on 25th March 1981. (Photo by Larry Ellis Collection/Getty Images)

Oddly enough, however, he has never really ventured onto the big screen and has seemed happy to stick to stage and television throughout his successful career. Most recently he has enjoying continued success playing the straightforward DCI Tom Barnaby in ITV’s _”Midsomer Murders” (1997). He is on record as wanting to create a TV detective without any of the usual tics, and consequently Tom Barnaby is a happy family man, who just happens to live in the most murderous part of an otherwise stereotypically idyllic English countryside.

– IMDb Mini Biography By: A J Lewis

The above IMDB entry can also be accessed online here.

Gene Anderson

Gene Anderson was an English actress who had a career in television, film, and theatre from the early 1950s up until her death in 1965 at the age of 34. She was the first wife of actor Edward Judd and is best known for her performances in the films The Long Haul (1957) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). Born in London, Anderson was trained as an actress at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (then known as the Central School of Speech and Drama). She made her film debut in the small role of June Maple in Guy Hamilton’s 1953 drama film The Intruder. Her first larger screen role came later that year in the supporting role of Renee Wexford in the crime film Flannelfoot. Her first leading part in a film was as Pamela in 1954’s Tale of Three Women. She also performed in the theatre, creating the role of Marie Charlet in the world premiere of Pierre La Mure’s Monsieur Toulouse at the Connaught Theatre in a production directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. In the West End, she portrayed the central role of the Nurse in the UK premiere of Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith. She also appeared on British television series in the 1950s and 1960s, including as a main cast member of the 1950s British television dramas The Crime of the Century and A Mask for Alexis. She was also a frequent guest actress on British television series in the 1950s and 1960s. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage while rehearsing for a television episode appearance in London on May 5, 1965 at the age of 34

John Duttine. IMDB.

John Duttine was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1949. He came to prominence on television in 1977 in the drama “Spend, Spend, Spend” about pools winner Viv Nicholson. In 1980 he starred in the hughly popular television series “To Serve Them All the Days”. He went on to star in “Who Dares Wins” with Richard Widmark and Lewis Collins. He has recently starred in “Heartbeat”. He is married to the wonderful actress Mel Martin.

IMDB entry:

Like the character he played in To Serve Them All My Days (1980), John Duttine hails from a mining town, but in Yorkshire rather than Wales. He, too, attended state schools rather than upper-class public (the equivalent of American private) schools. When he realized in his teens that “acting was the only thing I did well,” he switched to drama, training at the Drama Centre in London. His first job after drama school was playing three characters in “Hamlet” for the Citizens Theatre Company in Glasgow, Scotland. On joining the Glasgow Repertory Company, he did most of the familiar repertory stints including Antony in “Antony and Cleopatra,” Danton in “Danton’s Death,” and Danforth in “The Crucible.”

By the mid-1970s, he had shifted mainly to television and film. Then in 1979-80 came the opportunity to play the hero of To Serve Them All My Days (1980), arguably one of the more demanding roles in the mini-series library. His main fear about playing David Powlett-Jones was the Welsh accent: “I was rather worried that I wouldn’t hit the right note. I would be angry as hell if I heard a Yorkshire accent that was wrong.” Clearly, John got the accent and just about everything else about this performance exactly right. As the New York Times noted upon the series’ first American broadcast in 1982, “Mr. Duttine is, even in this talented company, exceptional.”

Following that triumph, for which he won the TV Times magazine’s Best Actor award, John appeared in numerous programs and series for British television throughout the 1980s, drawing particular acclaim for _Day of the Triffids, The (1981) (TV)_, a sci-fi mini-series that has become a cult sci-fi favorite, and The Outsider (1983), a 6-part series about a newspaper editor set in John’s native Yorkshire. He also returned to the stage occasionally, and in 1989 was reunited with Charles Kay, his nemesis (Alcock) of To Serve Them All My Days (1980), for the original cast of “The Woman in Black.”

In the early 1990s, John’s career and life appeared to hit a rough patch. His relationship with long-time girlfriend Carolyn Hutchinson broke up (they had a son, Oscar, in 1981) and work temporarily dried up. By 1994, things had returned to a better track. John began a relationship with Mel Martin, with whom he had co-starred in the TV movie Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Talking to Strange Men (1992), and returned to series TV with the comedic _Ain’t Misbehavin (1994)_. In 1997, he and Mel bought an 18th century farmhouse on eight acres in Cornwall, England.

Today John continues to appear regularly in guest-starring roles on British television, as well as on stage. During 2003, he toured in the well-received “Art” with co-stars Les Dennis and Christopher Cazenove. John also does voice-over work for commercials and documentaries, as well as radio plays for the BBC, putting his versatile voice to very effective use.

– IMDb Mini Biography By: Elizabeth

The above IMDB entry can also be accessed online here.

Michael Crawford was born in 1942 in Salisbury, England. He is fondly remembered for his role of Frank Spencer in “Some Mothers Do Have Them” which began its run on British television in 1973. Already Crawford had been on film, “”The War Lover” in 1963 with Steve McQueen and Shirley Anne Field and in Hollywood, “Hello Dolly” with Barbra Streisand in 1969. He played the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” to enormous acclaim.

TCM Overview:

An enormously gifted singer-actor, Michael Crawford became a child star of radio, stage and screen thanks to his soprano voice and innate acting talent. Maturing into a gifted adult performer, he charmed in such films as “The Knack and How to Get It” (1965), “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1966) and “Hello, Dolly!” (1969). Crawford became a sitcom star and household name as the accident-prone Frank Spencer on “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” (BBC1, 1973-78), but found even more success as a musical theater actor, winning an Olivier Award in “Barnum” and becoming a worldwide icon as the titular star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” An unprecedented global phenomenon, “Phantom” defined an era, earning Crawford another Olivier Award, a Tony and the status of Officer of the British Empire. Buoyed by all the adulation, Crawford launched a Grammy-nominated solo recording career, headlined the Las Vegas musical spectacular “EFX,” and filmed his own Emmy-nominated special, “Michael Crawford in Concert” (PBS, 1998). A born performer who only became more likable and charismatic with age, Michael Crawford continued to build upon his status as a beloved international icon and as one of the most respected English entertainers of all time.

Born Jan. 19, 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, Michael Patrick Dumbell-Smith experienced a childhood of extreme highs and lows against the backdrop of wartime England. After his mother died young, he left his abusive stepfather and dedicated himself to the theater, going from performing in school plays to professional productions, due in part to his beautiful soprano singing voice. Adopting the stage name of Michael Crawford, he built an impressive career as a child star on the stage, television and radio before essaying his first teenage lead in the comedy “Two Left Feet” (1963), as an awkward young man who attempts to seduce a waitress. After an impressive stint on the satiric sketch show “Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life” (BBC1, 1964-65), he followed with a series of charming performances as clumsy, callow young men learning about love in the Richard Lester comedies “The Knack and How to Get It” (1965) and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1966), winning the Variety Club of Great Britain’s award for Most Promising Newcomer.

As the high-spirited Cornelius Hackl, he took lessons in love from matchmaker Dolly Levi (Barbra Streisand) in the Oscar-winning musical “Hello, Dolly!” (1969) and reteamed with director Richard Lester to star as an inept British Army officer who inadvertently kills off all of his men, including John Lennon, in “How I Won the War” (1967). That same year, he made his Broadway debut in “Black Comedy” opposite Lynn Redgrave and Geraldine Page and he went on to make a name for himself on the London stage as well in the sex farce “No Sex Please, We’re British” (1971) and the short-lived musicals “Billy” and “Flowers for Algernon.” After playing the White Rabbit in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1972), the actor achieved U.K. pop culture immortality as the hilariously unlucky, lovable loser Frank Spencer on “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” (BBC1, 1973-78), which proved not just a popular series, but an enduring U.K. cultural institution. For his wonderful work on the series, Crawford earned two BAFTA TV Award nominations, as well as the respect of cast and crew for doing his own stunts and pratfalls on the physical comedy-heavy series.

Back onstage, Crawford’s exuberant, Olivier Award-winning performance in the boisterous Cy Coleman musical “Barnum” helped him shed the trappings of his sitcom superstardom, transforming the actor into a popular musical theater star. Working tirelessly to train himself in circus arts like tightrope walking and juggling, Crawford so completely embodied the famed showman P.T. Barnum that he became synonymous with the show’s monstrous success and was even tapped by British ice dancing legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to help them perfect a routine to music from the show. Still very much associated with his charming sitcom character, however, Crawford completed the transition to serious actor and saw his star flash supernova with his sensitive, captivating portrayal of the tormented, masked antihero of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” Although he was not Webber’s first choice for the role, Crawford’s opera-trained voice won the producer over when he and star Sarah Brightman overheard the actor in a music lesson, and it soon became obvious that this part of a lifetime was destined for Crawford.

Now a household name, the enormously influential “Phantom” proved to be a smash in both the West End and on Broadway, with its soundtrack becoming a worldwide sensation and “Phantom Mania” sweeping the media. Fans fell deeply in love with the swooningly romantic story of the titular disfigured musical genius (Crawford) who went to murderous lengths to win the heart of the angelic Christine (Brightman), and the lush, dramatic production captured the imagination of millions. Gifted with dreamy numbers that showcased his soaring voice, Crawford was the heart of Phantom mania for millions, becoming a global sex symbol and icon. For giving unforgettable life to the “Phantom,” Crawford won a slew of awards from both sides of the pond, including an Olivier, a Tony, a New York Drama Desk Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the Variety Club of Great Britain’s Personality of the Year. So popular and acclaimed was Crawford’s performance that Queen Elizabeth II named him an Officer of the British Empire, and he launched a successful solo recording career, including 1991’s multiplatinum Michael Crawford Performs Andrew Lloyd Webber and 1993’s A Touch of Music in the Night, which included a Grammy-nominated duet with Barbra Streisand.

He went on to star in the enormously ambitious, special effects-laden musical spectacular “EFX” in Las Vegas, which cast Crawford in five starring roles: the EFX Master, Merlin the wizard, famed showman P.T. Barnum, magician Harry Houdini and science fiction author H.G. Wells. The show proved so demanding, however, that Crawford, who still insisted on doing his own stunts, had to leave early in the run due to injuries sustained while performing. When he left the intense “EFX,” the actor went on to star in his own Emmy-nominated special, “Michael Crawford in Concert” (PBS, 1998) and to pen his autobiography, 1999’s Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with String. Continuing his lucrative recording and touring careers, Crawford scored further stage success in the musicals “Dance of the Vampires” and Webber’s “The Woman in White,” earning an Olivier Award nomination for his work. Crawford and Webber reteamed yet again for another hit when the actor played the titular role in Webber’s 2011-12 production of “The Wizard of Oz.”

By Jonathan Riggs

The above TCM overview can also be accessed online here.

James Faulkner. TCM Overview.

James Faulkner was born in 1948 in Hampstead, London. In 1972 he made his flm debut in “The Great Waltz”. He starred in “Conduct Unbecoming” with Michael York and Susannah York. He has had a very extensive career on television and the stage.

TCM Overview:
In a career that spanned several decades, English actor James Faulkner appeared in numerous television series and films, primarily as a supporting actor in small character roles. With a wide degree of versatility, the classically-trained thespian tackled everything from Shakespeare to Japanese anime, and boasted a resume that included roles in Hollywood blockbusters like “X-Men: First Class” (2011).

James Sebastian Faulkner (who on occasion was credited by his full name on screen) was born on July 18, 1948 in Hampstead, London, England. Before he went into acting, Faulkner attended Caldicott Preparatory School, followed by Farnham Royal. After he finished his years at Wrekin College, Faulkner enrolled himself at London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (now part of the University of London). For three years between 1967 and 1970, Faulkner honed his acting skills in preparation for tackling the English theater. Near the tail end of his academic career as an actor, Faulkner was cast in a regional adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” For a couple of years, Faulkner continued take on small roles on the British theater circuit before he was cast in the key role of Appollodaurus in an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s “Caesar & Cleopatra” in 1971.

The very next year, Faulkner began acting in feature films. His first film was a musical biopic of Austrian classical composer Johann Strauss, “The Great Waltz” (1972), in which he played Strauss’s son, Josef. His first role on the small screen came when he appeared in an episode of the gritty Glasgow-based TV police drama “The View from Daniel Pike” (BBC 1971-73). Faulkner continued to land supporting roles in both film and television, interspersed with theater work that explored Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories. Having spent his cinema career in front of the camera, Faulkner was credited as a co-producer of the historical war film “Zulu Dawn” (1979), the prequel to the hugely successful “Zulu” (1964). Depicting the events of the Battle of Isandlwana in southern Africa during the 19th century, the drama starred Peter O’Toole and Burt Lancaster. Along with his production duties, Faulkner also played the supporting role of British military officer Lt. Melvill.

In the 1980s and ’90s, Faulkner’s prolific career expanded to an international audience. He played Baron John Mullens in an American-made television drama set in the Middle Ages, “Covington Cross” (ABC 1992). Faulkner also lent his voice to bring animated characters to life, such as Franc in the Japanese anime “Najica: Blitz Tactics” (2001). Faulkner’s vocal talents continued to land him jobs for other popular anime shows. “Noir” (2001), “Full Metal Panic!” (2002) and “Gantz” (2004) are just few of the anime shows that featured Faulkner’s distinct voice in between his supporting roles in a diverse portfolio of genres. He appeared alongside fellow British actors Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in the hit comedy “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (2001). Faulkner was seen in the kid-friendly adventure “Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London” (2004), the drama “The Good Shepherd” (2006), and the action-packed “Hitman” (2007) based on the eponymous video game. Faulkner’s versatility garnered the attention of screenwriter David S. Goyer. In “Da Vinci’s Demons” (Starz 2013-), Goyer cast Faulkner as Pope Sixtus IV in his fictional depiction of the Renaissance man’s life.

TCM overview can also be accessed online here.

“The Guardian” obituary:

David McGillivray
The Guardian, Wednesday 29 June 2005 00.02 BST

The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as “the next James Bond”.His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington’s career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.A fine actor with star quality – and a very funny man to boot – Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue’s nightclub.

His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.

Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. “I cringe when I see it,” he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).

Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.

Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.

After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.

· Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005

The above obituary from the “Guardian” can also be accessed online here.

Michael Billington

Peggy O’Neil was born in New York in 1894 and died in London in 1960. Her film career was based mainly in the U.S. and her stage career in Britain.

Lita Roza was born in Liv erpool in 1926. She was a very popular recording artist in Britain before the advent of rock’n’roll in the mid 1950’s. Her most famous song was “How Much Is that Doggy in the Window”. She made just the one film “Cast A Dark Shadow” a very good thriller with Margaret Lockwood and Dirk Bogarde. Lita Roza died in 2008 aged 82.

Lita Roza’s “Guardian” obituary by David Laing:

Lita Roza, who has died aged 82, was one of Britain’s most versatile, accomplished and glamorous popular singers in the 1950s. In March 1953 she was also the first Liverpool-born musician to have a No 1 hit, albeit with Bob Merrill’s novelty ballad the much-derided (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window. It was a hit despite competition from the US version by Patti Page and one by Carole Carr, with children’s choir and Rustler the Dog. Roza resolutely refused to include it in her live shows, observing that it should be on a Lita Roza Sings Rubbish album. When told it was Margaret Thatcher’s favourite song, she retorted: “Well, I suppose she had to like something!”

She was born Lilian Patricia Roza in Liverpool, the second of seven children of a Spanish-born marine engineer and his English wife. At Granby Street school her classmates included Jean Alexander, later to play Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street. Her own showbusiness aspirations were inspired by her father, an accordionist who also played piano in night clubs and hotels.

Her early professional career was as a child and teenage dancer. At 12, having answered an advertisement for young dancers, she passed the audition and trained in London at the Ken Moore School of Dancing. This led to membership of the 52 Bright Eyes 26-child dance troupe, which played in pantomime in Norwich in 1938. In the early war years, she danced in pantomime at Chester and the Liverpool Empire, appearing in Aladdin and Cinderella (1941-42) before touring as one of the 16 Hippodrome Lovelies in the variety show Black Velvet.

There was a change of direction when, after a brief period cutting and packing butter at the Home & Colonial Stores, she found work as a singer in a Stockport club. There her first name was shortened to Lita. This led to a spell with the London-based dance band of clarinettist Harry Roy. In wartime London she met and married an American officer serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force and moved with him to the US. She was out of the music business for five years.

The marriage ended in divorce: Roza returned to England and resumed her career. She had taken the precaution of sending a demonstration disc of her singing and photographs to Ted Heath, who led Britain’s leading dance band. Heath asked her to call him and then recruited her, beginning with one of his Sunday Swing nights at the London Palladium. He also gave her a five-year contract with his talent agency, intending her to make a career in cabaret.

Then, in July 1950, his own female singer fell ill and Roza became a regular soloist with the Heath orchestra, joining it for a BBC audition which was successful, although the head of light entertainment was lukewarm. “She has no special vocal talent,” he said, “but will look good sitting on the bandstand.”

Her appearances and broadcasts with Heath brought a Decca recording contract. Between 1951 and 1957, Decca issued more than 50 singles by Roza, many of them covers of American hits that competed with both the US version, or versions, and other British covers. She was required to sing in a range of styles including the folksy for her cover of Jo Stafford’s Allentown Jail, a western theme for High Noon in 1952, which was a hit for Frankie Laine, and even rock’n’ roll – she gamely attempted Bill Haley’s Crazy Man Crazy in 1955. And then there was That Doggie in the Window. Roza’s own favourite of her records from this era was Hey There (You With the Stars in Your Eyes) from Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’s show The Pyjama Game and a 1955 top 20 hit.

That year Roza left the Heath agency and embarked on a solo career managed by Joe Collins, father of Joan and Jackie. As well as cabaret and nightclubs, there was television with the Lita Roza Show (1956) and appearances on Six-Five Special, the show that introduced skiffle and rock’n’roll to the BBC. She had a cameo in Lewis Gilbert’s Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and played Digby Wolfe’s girlfriend in the sitcom Sheep’s Clothing (1957). After Decca, Roza recorded for Pye, Ember and EMI’s Columbia.

Then came the 1960s, guitar groups and that wave of female vocalists – Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithfull, Sandy Shaw et al – which washed away torch-singers such as Roza, and indeed, as she lamented, saw intimate cabaret venues replaced by the Batley Variety and other giant clubs.

Yet she found appreciative audiences abroad, travelling to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Las Vegas. She also toured for Combined Services Entertainment to Singapore, Cyprus and the Middle East. Then, in 1982, she became a linchpin of the annual Ted Heath orchestra reunions, masterminded by trombonist and arranger Don Lusher – Heath had died in 1969. For almost two decades Roza and fellow vocalist Denis Lotis helped to recreate the sound of the Heath band in its 1950s heyday.

After those concerts ended in 2000, Roza made only one more appearance, in 2002, at a celebration of BBC Radio Merseyside’s 30th anniversary. It showed that her home city had not forgotten her, as did the invitation the previous year to open the Wall of Hits in Matthew Street, home of the Cavern Club. The wall was studded with bronze discs of every No 1 to emanate from Liverpool, beginning with her own and ending with Atomic Kitten. And this year, Roza has been amply represented in the Beat Goes On, an exhibition devoted to the city’s musical heritage which is part of the European City of Culture programme. And she has also been served well by the CD reissue industry.

Both her marriages ended in divorce. She is survived by a niece.

· Lita (Lilian Patricia) Roza, singer, born March 14 1926; died August 14 2008

The above “Guardian” obituary can also be accessed online here.

Collection of Classic Brittish Actors

John Nettles

John Nettles. IMDB.

Gene Anderson

John Duttine

John Duttine. IMDB.

Michael Crawford

James Faulkner

James Faulkner. TCM Overview.

Michael Billington

Peggy O’Neil

Harry Ellis

Lita Roza

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