Tag: Deceased

“When I was 12,” Rick Honey remembers, “my father who was a policeman, took me to a different business every week to see what my career would be.” One of those places in Winnipeg must have been a radio station, because not long after that, he started working as an operator and music librarian at…
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As an actor, director and teacher, Antony Holland was a mainstay of the Vancouver theatrical scene after he arrived in the late 1950s from his native England, where he had been Vice-Principal of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1965 he founded Studio 58 at Langara College and for 20 years was instrumental in shaping…
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(John) Gordon Hilker – B COM (British Columbia) 1934.  Impresario, producer, born in Vancouver in 1913, died in 1991. His mother was a music teacher and he studied piano for some 12 years. In 1936 he brought Martha Graham and her dancers to Vancouver, in 1937 he initiated the Greater Artists Series, and in the…
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The late Bud Henderson was born in Vancouver in 1916 and grew up with a desire to be a jazz pianist. He attained his life’s goal, becoming one of the finest exponents of the piano. He played for many musicals during his school and university days, gaining an unparalleled reputation as an ultra-talented musician. His…
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Along with acting ability, Doug Hellier was gifted with good looks and personality. He became Vancouver’s leading male model by the age of 20 and stayed involved with fashion over the years, including producing the first fashion show at the QET.  Doug began his professional acting career with Everyman Theatre, and went on to the…
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