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He was brought out to South Africa in 1958 to work for the [[National Theatre Organisation]] ([[NTO]]) as director and as actor from 1959-1962. He stayed on to work for the [[Performing Arts Councils]], the [[Pieter Toerien]] company and others and to appear in a range of films. Like most professionals, he also directed for amateur companies, such as the [[Bloemfontein Repertory Society|Bloemfontein Reps]].to | He was brought out to South Africa in 1958 to work for the [[National Theatre Organisation]] ([[NTO]]) as director and as actor from 1959-1962. He stayed on to work for the [[Performing Arts Councils]], the [[Pieter Toerien]] company and others and to appear in a range of films. Like most professionals, he also directed for amateur companies, such as the [[Bloemfontein Repertory Society|Bloemfontein Reps]].to | ||
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Revision as of 15:40, 19 December 2023
Victor Melleney (1922-2006) was a British born actor, director and production manager.
Not to be confused with Victor Melleney (1945-), the disgraced former BBC producer of documentary programmes
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Biography
Born in London, England, on 13 August 1922,
He was brought out to South Africa in 1958 to work for the National Theatre Organisation (NTO) as director and as actor from 1959-1962. He stayed on to work for the Performing Arts Councils, the Pieter Toerien company and others and to appear in a range of films. Like most professionals, he also directed for amateur companies, such as the Bloemfontein Reps.to
He died on 14 April 2006 in South Africa.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
As an actor, he appeared in : The Complaisant Lover (1960), The Cave Dwellers (NTO 1959). There Goes the Bride, Rosebloom, Who Killed Agatha Christie (at the Academy Theatre), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( as “Ed Earl Dodd” at His Majesty's Theatre), Hello, Dolly! (as “Horace van der Gelder”), My Fair Lady (as “Alfred Doolittle”). Brian Brooke’s Any Wednesday with Helen Cotterill and Vivienne Drummond in 1973. In 1988 he appeared as Goldman in District Six – The Musical at the Market Theatre. He starred in Michael Pertwee’s Birds of Paradise at the Alhambra Theatre in 1992.
As a director The Cave Dwellers (NTO 1959), the musical Dingaka in 1961, The School for Wives, Seven against the Sun, Mornings at Seven (1959), An Oak Fell (at the Baxter Theatre), Send for Dolly (at the Academy Theatre), J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (for PACT at the Civic Theatre in 1963), Lokval Vir 'n Man Alleen (Trap for a Lonely Man) (for TRUK in 1963), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (PACT 1965) , an adaptation of War and Peace at the Alexander Theatre for PACT in 1966, The Mask and the Face (PACT, 1967) and The Skinflint, 1969, Another Sip of Jerepigo, 1990. He also played in The Villagers in 1977 for the SABC - TV
Among his many film roles have been appearances in Safari 3000 (1982), Never Say Die (1994), Cyborg Cop II (1994) and The Last Samurai (1990).[1]
Awards, etc
Sources
SACD 1974, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82.
Tucker, 1997.
Mornings at Seven (NTO) theatre programme, 1959.
Various entries in NELM catalogue.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577910/
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