Hugh Goldie

Hugh Goldie (1919-2010) [1]. British born actor and director.

Biography

Hugh Goldie, DFC and Bar, theatre director and wartime RAF pilot, was born on December 15, 1919. He died on December 23, 2010, aged 91.

Hugh Goldie was born at Tywardreath, Cornwall, in 1919, the son of a doctor. He was educated as a chorister at Exeter Cathedral School and at King’s College, Taunton. He became an assistant stage manager with the Sheffield Repertory Theatre in 1938. In 1940 he joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve, gaining his wings early in 1941 before being posted. Returning to civilian life in 1947 he studied stage design at the newly opened Old Vic Theatre School under Michel Saint-Denis. Two years later he returned to Sheffield Rep to stage his first professional production. Moving to Liverpool Playhouse in 1949 as stage director, he went on to Oxford Playhouse (1950-51). In 1952 he made his London acting debut and staged his first London production in 1953. From 1954 he spent three seasons as resident director at the Theatre Royal Windsor.

He joined the Johannesburg Reps as resident director in 1959. He returned to England in 1961 to pursue a successful career as director and actor. He was subsequently to become associate producer and later executive director at Windsor from 1974 to 1986.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Productions include Dylan Thomas’s Under Milkwood (1959), Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (opening play at the Alexander Theatre, 1960), Affairs of State, Bedtime Story, The Deadly Game, The Coral King, Hot Summer Night, A Clean Kill (1960), Time to Kill (1961), Bedtime Story (1965), Busybody (1965), A Day in the Life Of… (1967).

He directed Through the Looking Glass (NAPAC, 1973).

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

Material held by NELM in various locations.

Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/hugh-goldie-9hz608rv9k3

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