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Connell, Miranda

14th November 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Miranda was born in Stanstead, Essex. She began acting at the age of 18, playing Maria in a 1958 production of Twelfth Night at Stratford.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK)

Castle, Roy

31st October 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Roy was born in Holmfirth. He was a gifted all-round entertainer and accomplished jazz trumpet player, who could play many other instruments.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK)

Nissen, Brian

14th October 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Brian was born in Kingston-upon-Thames. His stage career began at the age of 14 in Peter Pan.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - TVS

Trueman, Brian

8th September 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Brian was born in Manchester. In 1946, he made his acting debut in Plover Patrol for BBC Radio in Manchester.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Granada TV, Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV - Granada TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Ashcroft, Chlöe

1st September 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Chlöe is an actress and the niece of actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK)

Jones, Kathy

26th December 2023 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Kathy was born in Crewe. She is an actress/singer, who is best remembered for her role as Tricia Hopkins in 123 episodes of Coronation Street (ITV, 24th – 26th September 1973; 8th July 1974 – 28th April 1975 and 23rd June 1975 – 9th June 1976).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: ITV Network, Presenters: ITV Network

Arthur, Toni

7th July 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Toni was born Antoinette Alice Priscilla, in Oxford. She won a music scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music at the age of nine and gave a concert at the Wigmore Hall in the same year. She trained as a nurse at University College Hospital. She was a folk music singer and was married to fellow musician Dave Arthur (1963 – 1977). They released several folk music albums (1964 – 1975).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV Network

Hewer, John

3rd July 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

John was born in Leyton, Essex. He was an actor/writer, who was a long-time member of the London’s Players Theatre.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV Network

Oxley, Mel

26th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Mel was born in South Africa. He was a former DJ with Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s. He later moved into TV and worked as an ITV announcer for Southern TV (1959 – 1961), ATV, ABC Television and Associated Rediffusion. He moved to BBC Television as a network out-of-vision announcer, who also appeared in-vision conducting interviews on BBC Two (1965 – 1972). He presented BBC Two’s Line-Up (1969) and narrated The Curious Character of Britain (1970) and Sights and Sounds of Britain (1971) for BBC One.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Announcers: ITV - ATV (London), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

McGavin, John

10th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Also known as John McGavin Gordon. John was an ABC and ATV London announcer in the 1950s, but had an ambition to become an actor and went to drama school.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (London), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Stevens, Julie

27th May 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Julie is an actress and former ABC contract artist. She was a great children’s favourite on both Play School (1964 – 1978) and Play Away (1971 – 1979) and is remembered for her zany appearances.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Children's Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network (UK)

Hayes, Geoffrey

3rd October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Geoffrey was born in Stockport and attended drama school in Manchester.  For generations of pre-school viewers, he was the popular presenter known to viewers as ‘Geoffrey’.  He appeared in over 1,000 editions of Thames TV’s long-running children’s series Rainbow (1973 – 1991).  He joined after the original presenter, actor/writer David Cook, decided to leave to concentrate on other work.  He tipped off Hayes, having performed alongside him in repertory theatre.  Geoffrey would remain with the show for the next two decades.  He also wrote for the programme and appeared on The Sooty Show (ITV, 1977) and Altogether (ITV, 1981).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: ITV Network, Presenters: ITV Network

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