Jimmy Mentis
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Jimmy Mentis (19*-). Actor, singer, director and producer.
He died pre-1970.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As performer he appeared in the revue Sextet by Anthony Farmer, Ralph Trewhela and Adam Leslie (1957) in a Johannesburg Children's Theatre production of Three Wishes, as the "Bishop of Beauvais" in the NTO production of Saint Joan and in Ever Since Eve (1958).
He directed Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle at the YMCA in 1955, with designs by Anthony Farmer and starring Shirley Firth as well as a Children's Theatre production of The Circus Adventure.
Sources
Tucker, 1997. pp 79, 111.
Photographs held by NELM in various locations.
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