ESAT Personalities F

FLATHER, Horace. (18*-) Playwright, theatre critic and reviewer for the Cape Argus in the 1930s** Wrote the one-act play Jonathan’s Day. (See Gosher, 1988)

FLEISCHMANN, Ernest. He headed the committee which designed the programme for the arts festival which was to be held in September 1956 by the Johannesburg City Council to commemorate the seventieth birthday of Johannesburg. His career as an orchestral conductor culminated in his becoming the Executive Vice-President and Managing Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He was assisted by Mrs Peta Fisher of Musica Viva.??

FLEISHMAN, Mark (19**-) Actor, director, academic and lecturer at the University of Cape Town. **** Won the Rosalie van der Gucht Prize for New Directors in 1994, **,

FLEMYNG, Robert. (1912-1995) British Stage and screen star. British film and stage actor. After his stage debut in the early 1930s, Flemyng worked steadily in both London and Broadway, later in films and TV as a character actor. His first film appearance was in 1937. Films include Roy Boulting’s The Guinea Pig (1948 ), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Came to South Africa in 1952 to star in The Little Hut at His Majesty’s and later in Rattigan’s In Praise of Love for Pieter Toerien and Shirley Firth (The Intimate, 1974).

FLESCH, Anthony.(19**-) Actor. * Had a role in Othello Slegs Blankes at The Space in the 1970s. *