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 [[SACD]] 1973; 1974.
-https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796851/
+IMDb [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796851/].
-''Cape Argus'' 19 May 1999.
+''[[Cape Argus]]'' 19 May 1999.
 [[Fiona Chisholm]]. 2009. Theatre personality Percy Sieff bows out after a long and distinguished career. ''[[Cape Times]]'' 5 March 2009.

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 ''Cape Argus'' 19 May 1999.
 [[Fiona Chisholm]]. 2009. Theatre personality Percy Sieff bows out after a long and distinguished career. ''[[Cape Times]]'' 5 March 2009.
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 Percy was well-known as a [[Springbok Radio]] personality, known for example for the popular Springbok Radio
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 === Stage work ===
 Worked for [[CAPAB]]. Also worked for [[The Space]] in the 1970s.

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-Percy was well-known as a [[Springbok Radio]] personality.
+Percy was well-known as a [[Springbok Radio]] personality, known for example for the popular Springbok Radio
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-Was well-known as a [[Springbok Radio]] personality.
+Percy was well-known as a [[Springbok Radio]] personality.
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 He was born on 22 June 1928, grew up in Melkbosstrand and made his home at Clifton. He was married to [[Sylvia Perl]] and they had two children.
-During the 1990s he and his wife settled in Australia where he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Shylock in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' at the Sydney Opera house in 1999.
+During the 1990s he and his wife settled in Australia where he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Shylock in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' at the Sydney Opera house in 1999. He however still payed regular visits to South Africa.
+He died on 1 March, 2009, in the Cape Town Mediclinic, during a visit to his home town and is buried in the Pinelands Jewish Cemetary, Cape Town. (IMDb[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796851/] wrongly gives his death as June 19, 2009 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia).
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 He also devised and presented some of his own productions at [[The Space]], including ''[[Jewish Humour]]'', ''[[Sincerely Yours, Mark Twain]]'', ''[[Nostalgic 20s]]'', ''[[Nostalgic 30s]]'', ''[[Look at the 60s]]'', ''[[Son of Jewish Humour]]''.
-''[[Sincerely Yours, Mark Twain]]'' became a long-term vehicle for Sieff,  who took this one-man show on Mark Twain across the globe, right into the late 1990s.
+''[[Sincerely Yours, Mark Twain]]'' became a long-term vehicle for Sieff,  who took this one-man show on [[Mark Twain]] across the globe, right into the late 1990s.
 Played in ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' (1959), ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' (1969), ''[[Moeder Hanna]]'' ([[CAPAB]] 1970), Paul Harmse in ''[[Christine]]'' for [[CAPAB]] 1987, ''[[Faust]]'', ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'', ''[[The Proposal]]'', ''[[Broken Glass]]'', ''[[Venus Observed]]'', ''[[Captain Carvallo]]'' and many other productions.

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 Worked for [[CAPAB]]. Also worked for [[The Space]] in the 1970s.
-Performed the original [[Herman Charles Bosman|Bosman]] one-man show ''[[Willem Prinsloo's peach brandy: an evening of H C Bosman]]'' countrywide since early 1969, acted in ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'', ''[[Luv]]'',  ''[[Occupations]]'', ''[[Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act]]'', ''[[A Thousand Clowns]]'' and ''[[Alpha Beta]]''.
+Performed the original [[Herman Charles Bosman|Bosman]] one-man show ''[[Willem Prinsloo's Peach Brandy: An Evening of H.C.  Bosman]]'' countrywide since early 1969, acted in ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'', ''[[Luv]]'',  ''[[Occupations]]'', ''[[Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act]]'', ''[[A Thousand Clowns]]'' and ''[[Alpha Beta]]''.
 He also devised and presented some of his own productions at [[The Space]], including ''[[Jewish Humour]]'', ''[[Sincerely Yours, Mark Twain]]'', ''[[Nostalgic 20s]]'', ''[[Nostalgic 30s]]'', ''[[Look at the 60s]]'', ''[[Son of Jewish Humour]]''.

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-He died on March, 2009 in the Cape Town Mediclinic. (June 19, 2009 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
+He died on 1 March, 2009, in the Cape Town Mediclinic and is buried in the Pinelands Jewish Cemetary, Cape Town. (IMDb[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796851/] wrongly gives his death as June 19, 2009 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia).
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 ''Cape Argus'' 19 May 1999.
-''Cape Times'' 5 March 2009. Theatre personality Percy Sieff bows out after a long and distinguished career
+[[Fiona Chisholm]]. 2009. Theatre personality Percy Sieff bows out after a long and distinguished career. ''[[Cape Times]]'' 5 March 2009.
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