Malcolm Terrey
Malcolm Terrey (19*-). British-born actor.
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Biography
Born and educated in Bournemouth, England, first moved to Lesotho and then to South Africa in 1982. A diabetic, he passed away in Johannesburg on 2 December, 2020, after period of illness.
He began his career as a cabaret artist. Since then he has appeared in many musical comedies, plays, variety shows, T.V. shows and radio plays. He spent three years in repertory theatre and seven consecutive years playing Dame in pantomime. Then followed a year of taking his clothes off in Oh, Calcutta.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Since arriving in South Africa in 1982, Terrey has appeared in numerous stage productions – Plewman's seven-month run of Uproar in the House, Toerien's Who Goes Bare? and Move Over Mrs. Markham, to name a few. Malcolm is also something of a Jo'burg Follies marathon man, with annual runs of five months' duration. More recently he delivered an inimitable in Jeeves.
He created and co-starred with Kevin Feather in Jo'burg Follies at the Black Sun in Berea in 1986. He starred in Rex Garner’s production of Cahoots at the Leonard Rayne Theatre in 1988. He starred in Tom Lehrer’s Tom Foolery at the André Huguenet Theatre in 1989. His Jo'burg Follies was staged at the Leonard Rayne Theatre in January 1990. He starred in Ray Cooney’s Uproar in the House at the André Huguenet Theatre in 1992. He starred in Edward Duke’s Jeeves Takes Charge at the Richard Haines in 1993 and in My Fat Friend, 1995, Shear Madness 1997, Peril at End House, Funny Peculiar, Kinky Boots (as the shoe factory manager).
A Handful of Keys in 1994 that he helped write and create.
Malcolm designed costumes for From Door to Door, Honour, The Judas Kiss, My Fat Friend, Absurd Person Singular, The Other Side of the Swamp, We All Fall Down.
He directed The Unexpected Guest, Damsels in Distress.
In 2007 he was in the cast of the operetta The Merry Widow (State Theatre).
ending parade of playbills from Uproar in the House to Pieter Toerien's Who Goes Bare?, Move over Mrs. Markham, Jo'burg Follies that
Playwright and playmaker
he also wrote, Canterbury Tales and Tom Lehrer's Tom Foolery, Dear Liar.
Other stage appearances include Jeeves Takes Charges for which he was nominated for a Fleur du Cap in the best actor category in 1985, My Fat Friend, Sheer Madness, Peril at End House, Funny Peculiar, and A Handful of Keys that he created and helped to write in 1994. Until recently he was on stage as the shoe factory manager in Kinky Boots.
Malcolm Terrey directed The Unexpected Guest, Damsels in Distress, was part of the cast of 2007's operetta The Merry Widow in The State Theatre, and designed the costumes for From Door to Door, Honour, The Judas Kiss, My Fat Friend, Absurd Person Singular, The Other Side of the Swamp and We All Fall Down.
He toured South Africa and internationally in productions such as The Mousetrap, The Sound of Music, Dirty Dancing, Show Boat, We Will Rock You and The Phantom of the Opera, while other South African credits include Cinderella at the Joburg Theatre, Grin and Bare It and Ying Tong at Theatre on the Bay and Montecasino.
Awards
He was nominated for a Fleur du Cap Best Actor for Jeeves Takes Charge, award year 1985.
Nominated for a Gauteng regional Vita Award 2000/2001) for Best Performance in a Comedy by a Male for The Mystery of Irma Vep.
Sources
A Handful of Keys programme notes, 1994.
Tucker, 1997.
Laetitia Pople, 2020. "Malcolm Terrey 'n 'class act' " (Obituary), Die Burger, 3 December, 2020: p.8.
Theatre Lives [1].
Various entries in the NELM catalogue.
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