PETER BROWN

22 Mar

(5 October 1935 - 21 March 2016)

Never a Hollywood star, Peter Brown started performing in the Army and then trained at UCLA. Like many male actors he was snapped up in the 1950s and ’60s by television for the many Western series prevalent at the time: Tenderfoot, Maverick, Lawman, Cheyenne, Wagon Train, Laredo, The Virginian, along with many other television appearances. In between TV roles he made films including Samuel Fuller’s Merrill’s Marauders, Summer Magic with Hayley Mills, Ride the Wild Surf with Fabian and Three Guns for Texas with Neville Brand etc. Rarely out of work – over 100 credited roles in an almost fifty-year career – Brown contributed to countless films, TV series and TV movies. His final film in 2006, Hell to Pay, featured a nostalgic number of old-timers from westerns of the past.

MICHAEL DARVELL

Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

PETER BROWN

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