Hilda Attenboro

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The British comedian Claude Dampier and his wife, Irene Vere, departed for Australia in 1910 and, in 1917, embarked upon an extended tour of South Africa that was to last up to October 1921. When he returned to Australia he was accompanied by Hilda Attenboro’, who had acted in three films for African Film Productions: Bond and Word (Dick Cruikshanks/1918), The Voice of the Waters (Joseph Albrecht/1918) and The Bridge (Dick Cruikshanks/1918). In that same year Attenboro had appeared on the Johannesburg stage in “Good gracious, Annabelle”, together with Marie Tempest, Harcourt Collett and Dick Cruikshanks. There is some speculation that Ms. Attenboro was Dampier’s second wife as together they toured the vaudeville circuit in Australia and New Zealand. In 1925 she appeared in the film “The adventures of Algy”, which starred Dampier and was directed by Beaumont Smith, and the following year she took the title role in the play “Our Liz” at the Grand Opera House in Sydney. By that time Dampier had established a new partnership with comedienne Billy Carlyle. (Incidentally, another ex-South African resident, Grafton Williams, acted with Dampier in “Hullo Marmaduke” (1924), to which “The adventures of Algy” was an unofficial sequel.)

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