Ferdie Uphof

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(****-****). Actor. Performed in Caberet, Fiddler on the Roof, Minstrel Scandals and Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and living in Paris. Won the Players Club Award for Best Supporting SA Artist in 1972. (SACD 1973)

(19*-) Actor. ** He starred in Taubie Kushlick’s production of Eric Blau and Mort Shuman’s Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris together with Ann Hamblin, Jean Dell and Alain D. Woolf, with Irene Frangs and Robin Dolton as understudies and alternative cast members at the Chelsea Theatre in 1972. Lindsay Heard was the musical director. He starred in Taubie Kushlick’s production of Jacques Brel in November 1979 at the Chelsea Theatre together with Ann Hamblin, Robin Dolton and Cathy Zerbst. He starred in Taubie Kushlick’s production of A Tribute to the Words and Music of Brel at Kushlicks Theatre Restaurant in September 1989.

Started his career as a singer for a Spanish Company. He started drama in Taubie Kushlick's production of Cabaret. He played the role of Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof. Soloist in the All new Minstrel Scandal and played in Lock up your daughters. He has done recording and radio transcription work.

Sources

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris programme notes.

Tucker, 1997


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