Category: Inductees

Hugh Pickett was born in Vancouver in 1913. As a teenager he discovered his passion for entertainment and entertainers while working weekends as an usher at the Orpheum. During World War II, he served in the Canadian army, working for military brass in Vancouver organizing visiting movie stars’ tours to overseas military bases. Postwar, New…
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Born in Vancouver in 1923. Betty (Muriel) Phillips. Mezzo-soprano, actress, BA (British Columbia) 1976.  She began her singing career in Richmond High School musicals and appeared at TUTS for the first time in a 1946 production of Robin Hood and subsequently played leads in more than 20 TUTS productions until 1960; she is best remembered…
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Sam Payne, one of the most loved men of the theatre in Canada, infused every aspect of his craft with the warmth of his personality and professionalism. Born in New Westminster, Sam received his formal training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. On returning to Canada he joined the company of…
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Internationally acclaimed pianist, Jon Kimura Parker was born in 1959, the son of Keiko Parker, and was raised and educated in Vancouver. He appeared with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, when he was five, beginning his musical education at the Vancouver Academy of Music and later studying at the Juilliard School in New York under Adele…
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A graduate of U.B.C., Vancouver-born pianist, arranger and conductor Doug Parker started his career in Los Angeles playing with the big bands of Russ Morgan, Ray Anthony and Harry James. All of Vancouver’s famous jazz artists from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s played with Doug Parker.  He returned to B.C. in 1957 and began a…
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