CAST OF CHARACTERS

How did they impact on my life?

I have tried to use images approximating the age of the person when our lives intersected.  This has not always been possible and there is the added fact that, in some cases, we enjoyed a relationship that spanned many years.

Independent commentaries, interviews and obituaries are linked to the actual website whence they emanated.  My own commentary on the relationship and any subsequent "digression" may be found by clicking on each person's name.  In several cases, alas, the relationship was quite fleeting, and of probable significance only to myself rather than the individual concerned.

Where any reader has anything they wish to contribute to these reflections or commentaries, they will be gratefully received via the contact details given HERE

 

MUSICAL MEMORIES

 

Spike Hornett

 

Benny Lee

(His obituary:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-benny-lee-1527812.html)

 

Nat Gonella

(His obituary: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nat-gonella-his-georgians-mn0000374999)

 

Tito Burns

(His obituary: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/7982968/Tito-Burns.html)

 

Humphrey Lyttleton

(His obituary:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3477089.stm)

 

Zack Matalon

(Zack and Elizabeth Seal)

(Obituary notice: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2D7133EF930A25752C1A9639C8B63)

 

Julie Felix

(Official website: http://www.juliefelix.com/)

 

 

DRAMATIC AND LITERARY

 

Malcolm Knight

(His obituary  http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2007/01/malcolm-knight/ )

 

Ted Willis

(His obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-willis-1565335.html )

 

Bryan Forbes

(His obituary: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2322828/Bryan-Forbes-daughter-Emma-gives-intimate-account-hours-love--yes-happiness.html)

 

Bill Rowbotham (aka Bill Owen)

(His obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bill-owen-1106275.html)

 

Hugh Manning

(His obituary: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/sep/15/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries)

 

Lory Alder

 

Roger Livesey

(His obituary: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/458411/ )

 

 

Lulu

 (Her official site: http://www.luluofficial.com/)

 

 

LSE LUMINARIES

 

Kurt Klappholz

His obituary: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5049022.html 

 

Bernard Levin

(His obituary: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/aug/10/pressandpublishing.guardianobituaries)

 

Ron Moody

(His life: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1358396/Ron-Moody-I-nearly-accountant.html)

 

Fenella Fielding

(Her website: http://www.fenellafielding.com/)

 

Harold Laski

(His biography: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUlaski.htm)

 

STARS IN THEIR EYES

 

Lionel Blair

(A Lionel Blair interview: http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/24698/interview-lionel-blair)

 

Joyce Blair

(Her obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joyce-blair-413886.html)

 

Joyce and Lionel Blair

(In Someone Who Cares)

(On youtube together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwlsle0Ly4A)

 

Alma Cogan

(Her obituary: http://www.thisisannouncements.co.uk/5848363)

 

Sophie Tucker

(London 1957)

(Her obituary http://www.answers.com/topic/sophie-tucker)

 

Anne Shelton

(Her obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-anne-shelton-1373778.html)

 

Jean Young

 

BEVERLEY COP-OUTS

 

Susan George

(Her interview: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2289676/Susan-George-speaks-time-husband-Simon-MacCorkindale-lost-battle-cancer.html)

 

Shirley Jones

(Her biography: http://www.biography.com/people/shirley-jones-9542159)

 

Frank Interlandi

(His obituary: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/10/local/la-me-frank-interlandi10-2010feb10)

 

 

MANDRAKE CLUB HABITUES

Boris and Harold (Also Prompt Corner, Hampstead)

Colin - (Pretty Little Polly Perkins) from the Players

Theodore (Teddy) Bikel

 

 

POLITICAL PALS

 

Neil Kinnock

 (New Statesman interview: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/10/neil-kinnock-interview-labour-must-absolutely-not-support-eu-referendum)

 

Fenner Brockway

(Read about him here: (http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/people/pp-fenner2.html)

 

 

MY WORKING LIFE

James Blair Sherwood

F.J.D. (Freddie) Clemo

Jock Melvin

Bruno Hauri

Veli Nordström

Rob Ward

Rick Lidinsky

Jack Eaton

 

 

FRIENDS AND PERSONAL INFLUENCES

Henry Kahn

Larry Gordon

Louis Braham

Geoff Finn

Gail Goldsmith

Sasha Lyons

Tony Jenner

Stephen Bray

Michael Mallows

Mike Baynes

Lord McGregor ("Mac") of Bedford College

(Obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lord-mcgregor-of-durris-1293591.html )

Alfred Roman Ilersic - Bedford College

 

 

THE WONDERFUL CARNESON CLAN

Lynn Carneson McGregor

Ruth Carneson

Fred Carneson

John Carneson

Ntombi Carneson

Sarah Carneson

Simon McGregor

 

 

THE COTERIE OF THOSE NAUGHTY SEWELL BROTHERS

Marqueez (aka Marqueez Alkin)

Adrienne Corri

Alan Clive

Terence Alexander (Terry) Greer

John Mathis

"Beedlebum" Bentham

"Furniture house" Fitzpatrick

Ron and Pat Musgrove
 

 

THREE URINAL MATES

Cecil Parkinson

Bamber Gascoigne

Brian Blessed

 

CHUTZPAH CHUMS

Maureen Lipman

James Galway

Jane Asher

Janet Suzman

Andrew Sachs

Albert Finney

Sarah Kestelman

Michael Winner

Denis Norden

Frank Muir

Steve Race

Ian Wallace

John Amis

 

HOUSEMATES

Veli Nordström

Zack Matalon

Kurt Klappholz

Larry Fabunmi

The Interlandis

Sasha Lyons

René Thomas