Tag: Theatre

Jack Bowdery, born in 1909 was also known as Jack Ammon, was an actor on the stage, radio, television and film from 1918 to the 1990s. His most notable radio role was on the series “Millie and Lizzie”, one of Canada’s first radio situation comedies. Bowdery was the son of actress Alicia Ammon.

Peter Haworth began his career in the 1940s as an actor in Vancouver Little Theatre’s production of Candida during the Dominion Drama Festival period. In the early 50’s he taught drama for five years in a high school in North Vancouver, at the same time working with two of the earliest professional theatre companies in Vancouver –…
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Ed Harrington was born in New Westminster and has numerous credits to his name. He was the co-founder and for 20 years the Artistic Director of the Royal City Musical Theatre Company. Ed has been an inspiration to thousands in South Australia, Germany, France, USA and Canada. He has a B.A. in History and English…
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Norm Grohmann, long-time local TV personality began his career in radio at CHWK Chilliwack in 1954 but moved to Vancouver’s CKWX in 1957. Not long after, he moved to CKNW and stayed at that station for over 30 years. In the seventies Norm was remembered for his part of CBC Vancouver’s Dr. Bundolo’s Pandemonium Medecine Show and…
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John Gray is an award-winning author, screenwriter, composer and performer for stage, tv, film, radio and print. He is best known for the seven musicals which he wrote and composed, and for his two seasons as a satirist on CBC Television’s The Journal. Billy Bishop Goes To War, written in 1978, appeared on Broadway, at the…
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