A Jobbing Actor
By John Le Mesurier
An Index
The following is an index compiled by Dave Homewood for the autobiography A Jobbing Actor. It is designed for the hardback version. Feel free to copy and paste it onto a Word file and print it for your own use, to improve your referencing details from the book. This was checked by the late Jack Wheeler and proven to be a good reference for both Dave and Jack. The layout here in online format looks a little hicklety-picklety but when you paste it into Word you can sort that easily by using the Tab key.
In uploading it seems the entry for Joan Malin is missing. If someone wants to fill that in - please do and send me the page numbers.
A Jobbing Actor
By John Le Mesurier
INDEXItalics indicate play, film or radio or television series
Entry____________________Page
Adam, Roland - 31, 32
Afghanistan - 60
Agra - 60
Ahmadnagar, India - 57, 58, 59, 60
Air Raids - 41, 46, 50, 51, 52
Alcoholism - 62
Aldwych, The, London - 13
Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham - 65
Ambrose and his Orchestra - 20
Ambulance - 45, 52
Anderson, Daphne - 69
Andover - 52
Anglo-Indians - 57
An Italian Garden - 31
Apollo Theatre, London - 37
Archangel Gabriel - 30
Archie Andrews (dummy) - 67
Army Medical - 44
Army Officer Training - 48
Army Uniform - 47, 49
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) - 42, 43, 45, 46, 50, 51
Ashton-under-Lyle - 44
Assizes - 19
Athenaeum, Bury - 20
ATS Girls - 51, 54
Attenborough, Richard - 71
Australian Ballet Dancer - 51Bailey, John - 42, 46
Baker Street Station - 25
Banbury, Frith - 25
Banky, Vilma - 6
Barbirolli, John - 5
Barnard Castle, Yorkshire - 52
Barrage Balloons - 45
Barry, Michael - 35, 36
Battersea Bridge - 45
Battle Of Britain - 45
Baxter-Sommerville, J (JB) - 32, 33, 34
Bay of Biscay - 56
Baylis, Lilian - 22
Benson, Sir Frank - 29
BBC Television - 35
Berkeley Square (play) - 25
Bedford - 1, 5
Ben Hur - 20
Benny, Jack - 53
Birchington-on-Sea - 7
Birley, John - 5
Bittersweet - 52
Black Watch - 22
Blackdown - 48, 50
Blackpool - 42, 43
Blue Skies (tune) - 13
Boulting - 36
Boulting, Roy - 69, 70, 71, 72
Boulting, John - 69, 70, 71, 72
Bourne And Hollingsworth - 73
Boyd, Stephen - 20
Bramley, Sergeant (Army) - 47
Bren Gun Carriers - 48
Brighton - 33
Bristol - 59
Britain - 60
British - 73
British Cinema - 71
British Raj - 56, 57
Brixton Theatre - 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46
Brothers In Law - 71, 72
Brough, Peter - 67
Bombay - 56, 57, 58, 59
Brooke, Geoffrey - 50
Browining, Maurice - 69
Buchanan, Jack - 69
Bungalow Hotel,
Birchington-on-Sea - 8
Burma - 56
Bursar (Sherborne) - 13
Bushman, Francis X - 20
Bygraves, Max - 67
Byng, Douggie - 74, 75Café` de Paris - 50
Cambridge - 15, 23
Carlton-Browne of the FO - 71
Carmichael, Ian - 70
Catering Corps - 54
Chamberlain, Neville - 40
Chance Of A Lifetime - 68
Chaplin, Charlie - 6
Charing Cross - 64
Chase - 31
Chatham - 7, 65
Chaucer Road, Bedford - 1
Chelsea Palace - 38
Cheltenham - 55
China Town, london - 73
Chiswick Empire - 38
Churchill, Sarah - 38
Churchill, Sir Winston - 38
Circus - 2, 3
Citreon (JLM’s father’s car) - 6
Claudius - 26
Clisby, Kitty - 74
Colchester - 22, 23
Collin’s Music Hall - 43
Colonel Chinstrap - 66
Compton, Vera - 25
Cooke, Miss (Mrs Cooke) - 4, 5
Cooper, Gladys - 8
Cooper, Lady Diana - 11, 23
Copp, Bruce - 65
Covent Garden, London - 65
Coward, Noel - 11, 29, 33, 35, 60
Cricket - 9, 10, 17, 20, 21
Crossroads - 31
Croydon - 33, 35, 75
Croydon Grand - 64
Croydon Repertory - 33, 34, 36
Crump, Neville - 50, 52
Dad’s Army - 51
Daily Express - 44
Dakota (C47 aircraft) - 60
Dangerous Corner - 26, 27
Darlington - 54
Dartmoor - 48
Dean Street - 51, 53
Deerbolt Camp - 52, 53
Delhi, India - 59
Denham, Maurice - 34
Deolali, India - 60
Desert Song - 38
Desmond, Patrick - 28
Destroyers - 56
Digby Hotel - 15, 18
Digman, Mark - 34
Dohdiram (Indian bearer) - 57, 58, 60, 61
Dolphin Square, London - 42
Doncaster - 44
Don’t Dilly Dally - 64
Dorset - 13
Draw The Fires - 30
Duchess Of Kent, The - 31
Dunce’s Cap - 10
Duty Officer - 54
Eardley Crescent, Earls Ct. - 67, 75, 77, 81
Earls Court - 67, 74
Ebury Street, London (digs) - 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41
Edinburgh - 25, 26, 28, 32
Educating Archie - 66, 67
Edwardes, Dennis - 25
Egyptian Vodka - 56
Embassy Club - 40
Embassy Theatre, Hampstead- 31
England, Their England - 59
English Language - 57, 59
Escape From Broadmoor - 68
Eton - 50
Eurasian girl - 59
Fame Is The Spur - 35
Fanshawe, General - 51
Faversham - 12
Fay Compton Studio Of
Dramatic Art - 24, 25
Finch, Peter - 69
Finsbury Park Empire - 37
Fire Engines - 52
First World War, The - 30, 45
Fisher (Groundsman) - 11
Flempton Golf Course - 20
Flood Street, London - 45
Ford, Henry - 26
Ford V8 - 49
Forty-Second Street - 25
4 Grant Road, Bombay -59
France - 71, 72
French Without Tears - 42, 49, 53
French woman - 59
Fulham Road, London - 42
Fuller’s - 37
Gas Attack - 51
Gaslight - 36, 37, 38, 40
Gateway of India, The - 58
General Strike of 1926 - 14
German Fleet - 30
Gerrard Street - 73
Gibralter - 56
Gielgud Company - 25
Gielgud, Sir John - 25, 26, 35
Gilbert and Sullivan - 58
Glasgow - 27, 32
Golf - 20
Good Companions, The - 26
Goodness, How Sad - 38, 39, 40
Grand National, The - 47, 52
Grand Theatre, Blackpool - 42, 43
Grand Theatre, The (Leeds) - 25
Great Windmill Street - 38, 75
Greene King Brewery - 7
Greenwell, Peter - 69
Grey, Zane - 8
Griffiths, G. W. - 6
Grosvenor Place, London - 37
Guildenstern - 25, 29
Guildhall, Bury - 5
Guinness, Alec - 25, 36
Guinness, Walter (MP) - 5, 14
Halifax - 43
Hall of Rememberance - 45
Hamlet - 25, 26
Hammersmith - 29
Hampstead - 31
Hancock, Tony - 67, 76
Hancock’s Half Hour - 76
Handley, Tommy - 66
Hanley - 44
Happy Is The Bride - 71
Hare, Bunny - 13
Hare, Robertson - 10, 13
Harrington Gardens - 63
Hartley-Milburn, Mollie - 25
Harvey, Frank - 48, 69
Hawtrey - 53
Headmaster - 10, 11, 13
Headmaster’s wife - 10
Hell, Hull and Halifax - 43, 62
Herne Bay - 7
Heston, Charlton - 20
Hibbert, Geoffrey - 64
Hickman, Charles - 25
Highgate - 40, 46, 52, 61
Hole in one - 20
Hollywood - 70
Horse Racing - 6
Hotel Cecil, The Strand - 5
Hulbert, Jack - 10, 16
Hull - 40, 43, 44
Hunstanton - 12
Hurlingham - 43
I Have Been Here Before - 53
Illustrated Sporting And
Dramatic News - 11
I’m All Right Jack - 36, 71
India - 6, 55 (posting to), 59, 60
Indian Army Major - 22
Indian Ocean - 56
Indians - 57, 60
Ipswich - 44
Irish Sea - 56
Irving - 53
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum - 61
ITMA - 66
Jacques, Hattie - 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 73, 74 (marriage to JLM), 75, 76, 77, 79, 80
Jacques, Robin (Hattie’s
brother) - 73
James, Sid - 76
Jermyn Street - 74
Joachim, Freddie - 72, 73
Johns, Glynis - 69
Johnson, Ken ‘Snakehips’ - 50
Josephine And Men - 69
Journey’s End - 45
Judge Ryeman (role) - 72
Kardomah - 29
Keith, Desmond - 35, 36
Kensington Registry Office - 74
Kerr, Bill - 76
Kind Hearts And Coronets - 36
Kindergarten - 3
King Edward VII - 6
King Kong - 75
King, Nosmo - 38
King’s Theatre (Edinburgh) - 26
King’s Theatre (Southsea) - 38
Konstantin - 31
Langdon, Harry - 6
Lauriston Place, Edinburgh - 27
Laughton, Charles’ brother - 54
Lawson, Wilfred -53
Le Mesurier, John - Agent - Joachim, Freddie – 72, 73
- Army cooking course – 54, 55
- Army Medical – 44
- Army pay course - 55
- Army Service Number (7918208) – 47
- Army Officer Training - 48
- Aunt Connie - 12
- Batman – 50, 52
- Birth of - 1
- Birthplace and home in Bedford - 1
- Boarding School (Grenham House) - 7, 8, 13, 19
- Boarding School (Sherborne - 13, 14, 15, 17, 18
- Car (Bullnosed Morris) - 21
- Digs – 27, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41
- Dogs - Nipper - 2
- Patience - 2
- Vanity (Saluki) - 23
- Godmother (Kathleen Long) - 5
- Father (John Halliley) - 5, 6, 10
- First romance - 21
- Grandad - 6
- Grannie - 6
- Homes: - Harrington Gardens - 63
- St Mary’s Square, Bury St Edmunds - 1
- 20 Smith Street, Chelsea - 41, 45, 46
- 48 Wellington Road, lodgings while
at school – 24, 25- Maternal Grandfather - 6, 7
- Mechanical aptitude - 49
- Mother (Mary Halliley, ne Le Mesurier) - 3, 4, 6, 11, 20
- Passing out parade - 49
- Posting to India - 55
- Review - 71
- Sister (Michelle Halliley) - 3, 4, 6, 7
- Twenty-First birthday - 24
- Wifes: June Melville - 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 55
Hattie Jaques - see her entry
Joan Malin -
Le Mesurier, Robin (JLM’s Son) - 75 (birth), 77
Le Roq, Rod - 6
Leeds - 25
Leeds, Geoffrey - 50
Lehmann, Carla - 34, 35, 36
Leicester Square - 34
Lenka (Polish Maid) - 41
Lewis Dodd (role) - 35
Libel (play) - 25
Liberal Party - 41
Light Tanks - 60
Linnit, Bill - 36
Liverpool - 50
Liverpool Street, London - 14
Lloyd, Marie - 64
Locks of St. James - 23
London - 30, 33, 36, 38, 40, 44, 48,
51, 55, 74, 79, 80, 81, 92
Londoners - 47
Long, Kathleen - 5
Lonsdale, Freddie - 8
Lord Chamberlain - 67
Lord Rea - 41
Lords Cricket Ground - 24
Luftwaffe - 46, 47
Lustgarten, Edgar - 68
Lyceum, The (Edinburgh) - 31
Lyceum, The (London) - 38, 65
Lynn, Ralph - 13
Lyon’s Ice Cream Factory - 29MacDonell, AG - 59
Malvolio - 30
Manchester - 38
Manchester Guardian, The - 38
Mason, James - 35
Matron - 9, 10
Mayfair Hotel - 20
Mayne, Ferdy - 34
Meade, Walter - 9
Measer, Beryl - 34
Mediterannean Sea - 56
Melville family - 46, 62
Melville, Fred - 38
Melville, June - 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 48,
49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 61, 62, 65, 74
Melville, Walter - 38
Mengeot, Andre - 5
Mercutio - 25
Miles, Bernard - 68
Milligan, Spike - 58
Minnis Bay - 10
Mitford Girls, The - 69
Mitre, The, Oxford - 15
Moore, George - 33
Monica (role) - 67
More, Kenneth - 71
Morley, Sheridan - 35
Motorcycles - 49
Moulin D’or (restaurant) - 40, 46, 51, 52, 55
Mrs Mopp - 66
Munich Crisis, The - 31
Music Hall - 38
Naismith, Laurence - 65
Nanny (JLM’s) - 2, 3, 4
Neagle, Anna - 74
Negri, Pola - 6
New Theatre, London - 25
New Theatre, Hull - 40, 44
New Year’s Day - 74
Newmarket - 1, 14, 19
Nichols, Beverly - 11
Ninbo Pani - 57
Nissen Huts - 57
Norfolk - 11
Novarro, Ramon - 20
O’Brien, Linnit and Dunfrie - 36
Old Country - 57
Old Mother Riley - 68
Old Vic - 22
Oldham Repertory - 28
Oliver Twist - 54
One Of The Ruins That
_Cromwell Knocked About A Bit - 64
Ophelia - 22
Orderly Officer’s Duties - 54
Ormund, Walter (role) - 53
Osric - 25
Ostrer, Pamela - 35
Oxford - 15
Pain, Hal - 5
Palladium, London - 53
Palladium, Edinburgh - 25, 26, 34
Parachute Regiment - 47
Parent’s Day - 10
Pathans - 60
Paul, Colonel - 50
Peabody Buildings - 52
Peace In Our Time - 35, 36
Peel, John - 20
Perry, Jimmy - 61
Peshawar, India - 59, 60
Piccadilly, London - 37, 64
Picture Post - 32
Players Theatre - 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 74, 80, 81
Police - 27, 28, 45
Poona, India - 56
Port Said - 56
Potter, Gillie - 40
Powell, Dilys - 70, 71
Price, Dennis - 34, 36
Priestley, JB - 26, 53
Princes Street, Edinburgh - 31
Prince’s Theatre, London - 38, 70
Prince’s Theatre, Manchester- 38
Private Lives - 31, 60
Private’s Progress - 36, 70, 71, 74
Provost Of Edinburgh, The - 31
Pugh, Miss - 76
Quayle, Anthony - 25, 26
Queen Elizabeth Hospital - 75, 78
Ramsay, Louie - 69
Rank, J. Arthur - 72
Rattigan - 34
Rea, Alec - 41
Rea, Findlay - 40, 41
Reid, Beryl - 67
Reynolds Town (horse) - 47
Reynold’s Weekly - 49
Risby - 4
Rochester - 7
Rodmarton Mews - 25
Rolls Royce - 14
Romeo and Juliet - 25
Romilly Street - 51
Ronay, Egon - 73
Ronnie Scott’s (nightclub) - 73, 80
Rookery Nook - 13
Rosyth - 55, 56
Rotten Row - 23
Royal Armoured Corps - 46, 57
Royal Engineers - 6
Royal Navy - 12
Royal Naval College
Dartmouth - 12, 13
Royalty Theatre, The - 53
Rozencrantz - 29
Russian Naval Officer (role) - 73
Rutland Arms Hotel,
Newmarket - 14
Salisbury Plain - 46, 51
Sam Brown Belt - 49
Sark - 36
Sauchiehall - 27
Scarborough - 54
Scotland - 31, 33, 55
Secombe, Harry - 67
Separate Tables - 34
17th/21st Lancers - 53
Shaftesbury Avenue, London - 37, 51
Shaftesbury Theatre, London - 38, 51
Shaw, Denis - 75
Sheffield - 30, 31
Shepperton - 73
Sheringham - 12
Sherriff, RC - 45
Shotten, Winifred - 13
Sikhs - 57, 58
Sloane Square, London - 45, 46
Smith Street, Chelsea - 41, 45, 46
Soho - 30. 73
Song Of the Volga Boatmen - 7
Sophie Tuckshop (role) - 66
Sousa Marches - 52
Southampton - 61
Southsea - 74
Spalding - 37
Sporting Life - 30
Squire Mytton - 52
St. John’s Wood - 24, 25
St. Martin’s Theatre - 70, 74
St. Mary’s Square, Bury - 1
St. Pancras Station - 55
Stone, Ernest - 52, 55
Stone, George - 55
Suez Canal - 56
Suffolk - 20, 21, 28
Summers, Dorothy - 66
Sunday Times - 70
Sweeper - 57
Sykes, Eric - 67
Taj Mahal - 60
Taj Mahal Hotel - 58
Tatalua, Tansi - 32
Tatler, The - 11
Teacher - 9
10th Hussars Military Band - 52
The Stage - 29
Theatre Royal, Brighton - 33
Theatre Royal, Bury - 1, 4
Theatre Royal, Glasgow - 31
The Antelope (pub) - 46
The Baby And The Battleship- 73
The Bells Of St Martin’s - 74
The Dubarry - 70
The Constant Nymph - 35
The Knickerbocker (club) - 37
The Loom Of Youth (novel) - 15
The Morrit Arms - 53
These Dangerous Years - 74
The Three Sisters - 31
Thomas, Terry - 71
Three Bridges, Suffolk - 37
Tidworth - 46, 50
Titoff, Olga - 33, 37, 38, 39
Tokay - 52
Tollen, Ernest - 30
Torquay - 71
Tovanich - 32
Train, Jack - 66
Travers, Ben - 13
Tree - 53
Turkish Baths - 74
Twelfth Night - 30
Twenty Minutes South - 69, 70
Tyne-Tees Bridge - 52
Up In Mabel’s Room - 28
US Cavalry - 28
VE Day - 60
Viceroy - 57
Victoria Station - 7, 8, 12, 33, 37
Villiers Street - 64
Vosper, Frank - 26
Waller-Bridge, Cyprian - 37
Walls, Tom - 13
Walters, Thorley - 71
Walworth Road - 39
Walwyn, Fulke (Lieutenant) - 47
Waterloo Station - 61
Wardour Street - 62
Waugh, Alec - 15
Whitehall - 56
Wilcox, Herbert - 74
Williams, Kenneth - 29, 76
Windmill Theatre - 67
Winn, Godfrey - 33
Wisdom, Norman - 76
Wood, Henry - 5
York - 55
York Minster - 55
Yorkshire Post - 30
Zeppelin - 3
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