Barbed Wire and Footlights Unknown - 1988

Paperback. Acceptable.

Braunton: Merlin Books, 1988 soft cover, light dust soiling, 124pp. Autobiography of Frank Taylor, born 22nd of February 1921 at Kirkhill, Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and trained for the stage at the Scottish School of Drama, under the direction of Miss Sybil Attwell. He made his professional debut as the Second Page in Richard of Bordeaux at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, on the 26th of September, 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAF, serving 5 years, and as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner served on two Squadrons, 608, and 217, before being shot down and taken prisoner in February, 1942. After an attempted escape and incarceration in no fewer than seven POW camps he was liberated on the 2nd of May, 1945 by the British 2nd Army’s 11th Armoured Division. On demobilization he was engaged as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Mercury Theatre, London, under the direction of E. Martin Browne. As an actor, and singer training under… Leer más

Merlin Books Ltd, 1996-04-01. Paperback. Good.