Royce Ryton

RYTON, Royce Thomas Carlisle (1924-2009). English actor and playwright.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In 1976 he came to South Africa to star in his play The Other Side of the Swamp opposite Eckard Rabe (for Toerien-Firth, 1976), the play running for a year. A number of his other plays have also been done in South Africa, including Crown Matrimonial (Toerien-Firth, 1973), For the Woman I Love (Toerien-Firth, 1976), The Unvarnished Truth (Toerien-Firth, 1979), The Anastasia File (1986) and I Was King (Pieter Toerien, 1992).