Nigel Kane

Nigel Kane (19**-). Radio and television personality, actor.

Youth
He grew up in Zimbabwe where he made his first stage appearance at 14.

Training
He trained as a radio announcer.

Career
He joined the SABC, working as a freelance and acting in radio drama. He was SABC's first English-speaking newsreader.

In the glory days of Springbok Radio in the mid-sixties, Kane used to write Squad Cars and a series called Bear With Me.

Following the death of his wife, he spent a year abroad and then returned to work at Napac with Murray McGibbon.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Back in the late seventies he appeared in a couple of Agatha Christie thrillers for Pieter Toerien and played "Old Capulet" in NAPAC's Romeo and Juliet.

The Importance of Being Earnest (in 1959 he played "Merriman", the elderly butler; "as "Reverend Chasuble", 2001).

He has also appeared in Macbeth, Who Killed Santa Claus?, Spider's Web and King John. He performed in a variety of NAPAC productions including Amadeus, Romeo and Juliet and The Doctor's Dilemma.

In 1960 he produced Romanoff and Juliet presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at The Little Theatre.

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