Tag: Theatre

Betty Haswell, also known as Betty Brown, was born to musical parents in Edmonton Alberta on August 17, 1921. A natural musician, Betty could play any song on the piano after listening to it and she also learned to read music. By the age of ten, Betty was accompanying her singer mother Hilda on her…
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Despite a stammer, young Jerry Gosley performed his own shows on makeshift stages he erected in barns between animal stalls. Relatives raised him in Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire due to his father’s sudden death and his mother having to work in York. Later the Rowntree chocolate family, who employed his mother, secured him an apprenticeship as a…
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Joseph Golland was a stage, film and television actor in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among his feature film credits were The Trap (1966), Bear Island (1979) and Heavy Metal (1981). On television he performed in numerous CBC series such as Cariboo Country in 1964 (Boss of the Namko Drive) and in 1966 (Moccasin Trail, Cabin Fever,…
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