Stuart Brown
(19*-19*) Actor for stage, radio and film. Best known nationally for his radio work, inluding many radio dramas and serials. In 1955 he went into partnership with actors Marjorie Gordon and Bruce Anderson to form The Company of Three. Their first production was Third Person [Third Person Singular**?]and was staged at the Johannesburg REPS . He directed The Company of Three’s production of A Hatful of Rain (1957). Stage roles in **, Charley’s Aunt (Brian Brooke, 1960), Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons (1962), Don’t Drink the Water by Woody Allen (NAPAC, 1980), He starred in John Hussey’s production of A Man and His Wife which was staged at the Brooke in 1972. He starred in Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, directed by Charles Hickman and also starring Eckard Rabe and Yvonne Banning at the Andre Huguenet and the Alexander in 1980. He starred in the PACT production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer (Alexander Theatre, 1983). Performed in A Man and His Wife (as “Winston Churchill”), Twigs (as “Swede” ), Death of a Salesman (as “Charly”), Don't Drink the Water (for NAPAC), Ten Little Indians (for Pieter Toerien, 1980).
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