{"id":28553,"date":"2022-08-26T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mickyandoniehn.com\/radio\/?page_id=28553"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:41:35","slug":"hubert-gregg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mickyandoniehn.com\/radio\/hubert-gregg\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubert Gregg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fecha de Nacimiento:<\/strong> 14 de julio de 1914<\/p>\n

Fecha de Fallecimiento:<\/strong> 29 de marzo de 2004<\/p>\n

Biograf\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actor, director, compositor, escritor de letras, autor, dramaturgo y locutor: el notable Hubert Gregg, quien muri\u00f3 a los 89 a\u00f1os, fue todo esto. En el escenario antes de la segunda guerra mundial y durante el cuarto de siglo siguiente, continu\u00f3 destilando la magia de esa \u00e9poca para los oyentes de radio de la BBC durante otras tres d\u00e9cadas. Ninguna canci\u00f3n es m\u00e1s evocadora de la \u00e9poca que su tal vez sea porque soy londinense, hecha famosa por Bud Flanagan en 1947.<\/p>\n

Nacido en Londres, Gregg estudi\u00f3 en St Dunstan’s College, sureste de Londres, y en la Academia de Arte Dram\u00e1tico Webber-Douglas, Londres. Siempre dijo que hizo su debut en el escenario como el jardinero en The Marriage Of Figaro de Mozart, pero fue como actor de Shakespeare que primero dej\u00f3 su huella. Apenas hab\u00eda terminado su adolescencia cuando apareci\u00f3 en producciones en el Open Air Theatre en Regent’s Park y Old Vic.
\nEn 1937, Gregg fue a Nueva York para interpretar a Kit Neilan en French sin l\u00e1grimas de Terence Rattigan, que retom\u00f3 en Londres en 1938-39 (en total, calcul\u00f3 que interpret\u00f3 el papel unas 650 veces). Pero su \u00e9xito en este y otros papeles esc\u00e9nicos notables se redujo con el inicio de la guerra.<\/p>\n

Comenzando en 1939 como soldado en el Regimiento de Lincolnshire, un a\u00f1o m\u00e1s tarde se convirti\u00f3 en oficial de los 60 fusiles. Dos a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de eso, estaba en el Ejecutivo de Guerra Pol\u00edtica, donde su comando del alem\u00e1n lo equipaba para transmitir en el idioma del enemigo, para molestia del ministro de propaganda nazi Joseph Goebbels. Todav\u00eda logr\u00f3 mantener contacto con el escenario, en Men In Shadow (1942), y algunos meses despu\u00e9s de ser invalidado de las fuerzas en 1943, abri\u00f3 en Acacia Avenue.<\/p>\n

Luego sigui\u00f3 mientras The Sun Shines (1945-46, sucediendo a Michael Wilding), Off the Record (1947) y Western Wind (1949). Un deseo de dirigir encontr\u00f3 una salida en The Hollow de Agatha Christie, su primer \u00e9xito en la etapa, en 1951. Su fen\u00f3meno del West End, The Mousetrap, todav\u00eda en funcionamiento, se abri\u00f3 en 1952, y de 1953 a 1960 Gregg supervis\u00f3 su aparici\u00f3n como un \u00e9xito. Entre la sorprendente variedad de producciones que dirigi\u00f3, se destacaron The Unexpected Guest (1958), Rule Of Three (1962) y The Secretary Bird (1969). La mayor\u00eda ten\u00edan su base en Londres, pero tambi\u00e9n trabaj\u00f3 en toda Gran Breta\u00f1a y era un visitante frecuente de Am\u00e9rica.
\nEn 1970, Gregg se diversific\u00f3 en actuaciones en solitario, presentando espect\u00e1culos individuales que iban desde las vidas de Shakespeare y Jerome K Jerome hasta m\u00fasica de los a\u00f1os 20, 30 y 40. Su creaci\u00f3n Words By Elgar, Music By Shaw fue vista en el Festival de Edimburgo en 1979.<\/p>\n

Sus apariciones cinematogr\u00e1ficas incluyeron In Which We Serve (1942), The Root Of All Evil, Once Upon A Dream (ambas en 1947), Doctor At Sea, para el que tambi\u00e9n escribi\u00f3 la m\u00fasica y las letras, incluida la canci\u00f3n Je Ne Sais Pas, mimed por Brigitte Bardot y Simon And Laura (ambos en 1955).<\/p>\n

La m\u00e1s conocida de sus m\u00e1s de 200 canciones, Quiz\u00e1s es porque soy londinense, fue compuesta en 1944 e incluida en el show The Crazy Gang de tres a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s. Tambi\u00e9n fue cantada por Jack Warner, para quien se convirti\u00f3 en una especie de melod\u00eda caracter\u00edstica, y Arthur Askey.<\/p>\n

Su primera canci\u00f3n publicada, Voy a iluminarme cuando las luces suben en Londres, escrita en 1940 e interpretada inicialmente por Gregg en un concierto del ej\u00e9rcito, se incorpor\u00f3 al espect\u00e1culo de George Black de 1943 Strike A New Note, y se cant\u00f3 por su primera esposa, Zoe Gail. Para empezar, suscit\u00f3 cr\u00edticas considerables, especialmente en los Comunes. Churchill respondi\u00f3 caracter\u00edsticamente que “celebraremos de una manera apropiada”; La melod\u00eda lleg\u00f3 a transmitirse en 1944 como una se\u00f1al de radio a la resistencia de que el D\u00eda D era inminente.<\/p>\n

La primera aventura de Gregg como dramaturgo fue We Have Company, que realiz\u00f3 una gira en 1953, con el propio Gregg como protagonista. Tambi\u00e9n protagoniz\u00f3, y dirigi\u00f3, Check Mate y Villa Sleep Four. Para su obra From the French, asumi\u00f3 el seud\u00f3nimo de Jean-Paul Marotte, volviendo a su propio nombre para Who’s Been Sleeping …? y querido alguien. Luego volvi\u00f3 a redactar el gui\u00f3n de su biograf\u00eda televisiva de la legendaria estrella del music-hall Vesta Tilley para crear After The Ball.<\/p>\n

Como autor, escribi\u00f3 las novelas April Gentlemen (1951) y A Day’s Loving (1974), as\u00ed como una colecci\u00f3n de biograf\u00edas, Thanks For The Memory (1983), extra\u00eddas de guiones de radio. Particip\u00f3 activamente en musicales, aportando n\u00fameros al show de Stanley Lupino The Love Racket (1943), Sweet And Low (1944) y Strike It Again (1945). Interpret\u00f3 a John Blessington-Briggs en la producci\u00f3n de 1958 Crisantemo.<\/p>\n

Sin embargo, es como una emisora consumada que la mayor\u00eda de la gente lo recordar\u00e1. Su primera aparici\u00f3n en la radio lleg\u00f3 ya en 1933, en una producci\u00f3n de Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Cabbages And Kings. Esto fue seguido r\u00e1pidamente por otros programas, que van desde drama serio hasta revista. El BBC Empire Service (precursor del Servicio Mundial) dio un buen uso a sus impecables tonos como locutor durante 1934 y 1935.
\nPero son sus programas posteriores, con \u00e9nfasis en la nostalgia, los que probablemente permanecer\u00e1n m\u00e1s tiempo en la memoria: I Call It Genius, Hubert Gregg Remembers, I Remember It Well, Now And Then, y, de vez en cuando desde 1972 hasta menos de Hace un mes, gracias por la memoria. En 1993, celebr\u00f3 60 a\u00f1os de transmisi\u00f3n con Sounds And Sweet Airs, que escribi\u00f3 y present\u00f3, seguido al a\u00f1o siguiente por Hubert Gregg y The 40s, conmemorando el 50 aniversario del D\u00eda D.<\/p>\n

Gregg tambi\u00e9n fue presidente de Brains Trust (1955) de la televisi\u00f3n de la BBC y presentador de Youth wants to know en ITV (1957). Escribi\u00f3 la m\u00fasica y la letra de la adaptaci\u00f3n de radio de 1962 de Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men In A Boat, en la que actu\u00f3 junto con Kenneth Horne y Leslie Phillips), e ide\u00f3, escribi\u00f3 y present\u00f3 una serie de radio de 40 semanas en los cines de Londres ( 1974-75).<\/p>\n

Todo este dinamismo, creatividad y confianza estaba envuelto en una personalidad de gran encanto. Un elegante vestidor, siempre parec\u00eda elegante y sofisticado, incluso cuando la presi\u00f3n estaba en aumento. Estuvo activo hasta el final, finalmente se gradu\u00f3 cuando obtuvo un BA a trav\u00e9s de la Open University a la edad de 83 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n

Por su primera esposa, tuvo una hija; despu\u00e9s de un divorcio, se cas\u00f3 con Pat Kirkwood; y, luego de otro divorcio, se cas\u00f3 con Carmel Lytton, quien lo sobrevive junto con su hijo y su hija.<\/p>\n

Hubert Robert Harry Gregg, actor, director, compositor, escritor l\u00edrico, autor, dramaturgo y locutor, nacido el 19 de julio de 1914; muri\u00f3 el 29 de marzo de 2004.<\/p>\n

Date of Birth<\/strong> July 14, 1914<\/p>\n

Date of Died<\/strong> March 29, 2004<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actor, director, composer, lyricist, author, playwright and broadcaster: the remarkable Hubert Gregg, who has died at the age of 89, was all of these. On stage before the second world war and for the next quarter century, he continued to distill the magic of that era for BBC radio listeners for another three decades. No song is more evocative of the era than its Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner, made famous by Bud Flanagan in 1947.<\/p>\n

Born in London, Gregg studied at St Dunstan’s College, South East London, and the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He always said he made his stage debut as the gardener in Mozart’s The Marriage Of Figaro, but it was as an actor in Shakespeare that he first made his mark. He was barely out of his teens when he appeared in productions at the Open Air Theater in Regent’s Park and the Old Vic.
\nIn 1937, Gregg went to New York to play Kit Neilan in Terence Rattigan’s French Without Tears, which he took up again in London in 1938-39 (in all, he estimated he played the role some 650 times). But his success in this and other notable stage roles dwindled with the onset of the war.<\/p>\n

Starting in 1939 as a private in the Lincolnshire Regiment, he became an officer of the 60 Rifles a year later. Two years after that, he was on the Political Warfare Executive, where his German command equipped him to broadcast in the enemy’s language, much to the annoyance of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. He still managed to maintain contact with the stage, in Men In Shadow (1942), and a few months after being discharged from the forces in 1943, he opened on Acacia Avenue.<\/p>\n

This was followed by The Sun Shines (1945-46, succeeding Michael Wilding), Off the Record (1947), and Western Wind (1949). A desire to direct found an outlet in Agatha Christie’s The Hollow, her first stage success, in 1951. Her West End phenomenon The Mousetrap, still in operation, opened in 1952, and from 1953 to 1960 Gregg oversaw her appearance as a success. Notable among the surprising variety of productions he directed were The Unexpected Guest (1958), Rule Of Three (1962) and The Secretary Bird (1969). Most were based in London, but he also worked throughout Britain and was a frequent visitor to America.
\nIn 1970, Gregg branched out into solo performances, putting on one-man shows ranging from the lives of Shakespeare and Jerome K Jerome to music from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. His creation Words By Elgar, Music By Shaw was seen at the Festival from Edinburgh in 1979.<\/p>\n

His film appearances included In Which We Serve (1942), The Root Of All Evil, Once Upon A Dream (both 1947), Doctor At Sea, for which he also wrote the music and lyrics, including the song Je Ne Sais Pas , mimed by Brigitte Bardot and Simon And Laura (both in 1955).<\/p>\n

The best known of his more than 200 songs, Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner, was composed in 1944 and featured on The Crazy Gang show three years later. It was also sung by Jack Warner, for whom it became something of a signature tune, and Arthur Askey.<\/p>\n

His first published song, I’ll Light Up When the Lights Go Up in London, written in 1940 and initially performed by Gregg at an Army concert, was incorporated into George Black’s 1943 Strike A New Note show, and was sung by his first wife. , Zo\u00e9 Gail. To begin with, it drew considerable criticism, especially in the Commons. Churchill characteristically replied that “we shall celebrate in a proper manner”; The tune came to be broadcast in 1944 as a radio signal to the resistance that D-Day was imminent.<\/p>\n

Gregg’s first venture as a playwright was We Have Company, which toured in 1953, with Gregg himself starring. He also starred in, and directed, Check Mate and Villa Sleep Four. For his play From the French, he assumed the pseudonym Jean-Paul Marotte, reverting to his own name for Who’s Been Sleeping…? and dear someone. He then rewrote the script for his TV biography of legendary music-hall star Vesta Tilley to create After The Ball.<\/p>\n

As an author, he wrote the novels April Gentlemen (1951) and A Day’s Loving (1974), as well as a collection of biographies, Thanks For The Memory (1983), drawn from radio scripts. He was active in musicals, contributing numbers to the Stanley Lupino show The Love Racket (1943), Sweet And Low (1944), and Strike It Again (1945). He played John Blessington-Briggs in the 1958 production Chrysanthemum.<\/p>\n

However, it is as an accomplished broadcaster that most people will remember. His first radio appearance came as early as 1933, in a Birmingham Repertory Theater production of Cabbages And Kings. This was quickly followed by other shows, ranging from serious drama to magazine. The BBC Empire Service (forerunner of the World Service) put his impeccable tones to good use as an announcer during 1934 and 1935.
\nBut it’s his later shows, with an emphasis on nostalgia, that will probably linger longest in memory: I Call It Genius, Hubert Gregg Remembers, I Remember It Well, Now And Then, and, on and off from 1972 to less. from A month ago, thanks for the memory. In 1993, he celebrated 60 years of broadcasting with Sounds And Sweet Airs, which he wrote and hosted, followed the following year by Hubert Gregg and The 40s, commemorating the 50th anniversary of D-Day.<\/p>\n

Gregg was also chairman of BBC television’s Brains Trust (1955) and presenter of Youth Wants to Know on ITV (1957). He wrote the music and lyrics for the 1962 radio adaptation of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men In A Boat, in which he co-starred with Kenneth Horne and Leslie Phillips), and devised, wrote and hosted a 40-week radio series on London cinemas (1974-75).<\/p>\n

All this dynamism, creativity and confidence was wrapped in a personality of great charm. An elegant dressing room, she always looked elegant and sophisticated, even when the pressure was mounting. He was active to the end, finally graduating when he earned a BA through the Open University at the age of 83.<\/p>\n

By his first wife, he had a daughter; after a divorce, he married Pat Kirkwood; and, after another divorce, he married Carmel Lytton, who survives him along with their son and daughter.<\/p>\n

Hubert Robert Harry Gregg, actor, director, composer, lyric writer, author, playwright, and broadcaster, born July 19, 1914; he died on March 29, 2004.<\/p>\n

Discografia<\/strong><\/p>\n