Chronicle January 2021

17 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

British stage of the mid-20th century, and went on to appear in more than 50 cinema roles and countless TV productions. In 1981 he starred in John Mortimer’s A Voyage Round My Father for Thames Television, some of which, to the great excitement of the School at the time, was filmed at St Edward’s. Fittingly, one of the very first activities to take place in the new Olivier Hall was an Upper Sixth Drama lesson exploring A Midsummer Night's Dream as a masked mime (in keeping with the times). Pictured are Lottie Miller, Theo Weldon, Nia Willis and Ben Neville with Freya Burdon, centre, playing Puck.

Clockwise from above: in ITV’s Brideshead Revisited with Antony Andrews and Jeremy Irons in 1981; a post-war publicity shot; seated third from right in the middle row in the cast photo for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1923; and as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in 1939.