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Michael Flanders is a Actor British born on 1 march 1922
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Westminster School Revue
St David's Institute, Exeter, 26 July 1940
Produced, devised and presented by
M. H. Flanders
Musical arrangements by
Donald Swann
Further performances—
Moreland Hall, Hampstead, 28 August 1940
Rudolph Steiner Hall, London, 29 August 1940
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”The first Flanders and Swann show
Michael Henry Flanders OBE (1 March 1922 – 14 April 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his stage partnership with Donald Swann.
As a young man Flanders seemed headed for a successful acting career. He contracted polio in 1943 while serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and for the rest of his life was reliant on a wheelchair. He made a career as a prolific broadcaster on radio and later television, and together with his old schoolfriend, the composer Donald Swann, he wrote successful songs in the late 1940s and early and mid-1950s for revues in the West End of London. In 1956 they themselves performed some of these songs, along with new songs, in a two-man revue, At the Drop of a Hat. This show, and its successor, At the Drop of Another Hat, ran with occasional short breaks from 1956 to 1967 and played in theatres throughout the British Isles, the US, Australia and elsewhere.
During and after the stage partnership with Swann, Flanders pursued a many-faceted career, performing on stage, screen, radio, concert platforms and recordings. He wrote opera librettos, a children's book, a volume of poetry and the words of a cantata about Noah's Ark.
Flanders was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1964 New Year's Honours. He was an eloquent advocate of better access to theatres for people with disabilities, and later he interested himself into other campaigning issues. After his death, Claudia Flanders continued to promote the cause of accessibility for wheelchair users.
Flanders died suddenly, aged 53, of a ruptured intracranial berry aneurysm on 14 April 1975 while on holiday at Betws-y-Coed, Wales. He was survived by his wife and daughters. His ashes were scattered in the grounds of Chiswick House in west London, a place where he had often liked to sit in the afternoon during the final years of his life.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 march 1922
Death 14 april 1975 (at 53 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Birth 1 march 1922
Death 14 april 1975 (at 53 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Westminster School Revue
St David's Institute, Exeter, 26 July 1940
Produced, devised and presented by
M. H. Flanders
Musical arrangements by
Donald Swann
Further performances—
Moreland Hall, Hampstead, 28 August 1940
Rudolph Steiner Hall, London, 29 August 1940
“
”The first Flanders and Swann show
Michael Henry Flanders OBE (1 March 1922 – 14 April 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his stage partnership with Donald Swann.
As a young man Flanders seemed headed for a successful acting career. He contracted polio in 1943 while serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and for the rest of his life was reliant on a wheelchair. He made a career as a prolific broadcaster on radio and later television, and together with his old schoolfriend, the composer Donald Swann, he wrote successful songs in the late 1940s and early and mid-1950s for revues in the West End of London. In 1956 they themselves performed some of these songs, along with new songs, in a two-man revue, At the Drop of a Hat. This show, and its successor, At the Drop of Another Hat, ran with occasional short breaks from 1956 to 1967 and played in theatres throughout the British Isles, the US, Australia and elsewhere.
During and after the stage partnership with Swann, Flanders pursued a many-faceted career, performing on stage, screen, radio, concert platforms and recordings. He wrote opera librettos, a children's book, a volume of poetry and the words of a cantata about Noah's Ark.
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On 31 December 1959 Flanders married Claudia Davis, daughter of the journalist Claud Cockburn and stepdaughter of Robert Gorham Davis, professor of English at Columbia University in New York. They had two daughters, both of whom became journalists: Laura and Stephanie.Flanders was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1964 New Year's Honours. He was an eloquent advocate of better access to theatres for people with disabilities, and later he interested himself into other campaigning issues. After his death, Claudia Flanders continued to promote the cause of accessibility for wheelchair users.
Flanders died suddenly, aged 53, of a ruptured intracranial berry aneurysm on 14 April 1975 while on holiday at Betws-y-Coed, Wales. He was survived by his wife and daughters. His ashes were scattered in the grounds of Chiswick House in west London, a place where he had often liked to sit in the afternoon during the final years of his life.
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The Raging Moon (1971)
, 1h50Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Barry Jackson, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim
Roles Clarence Marlow
Rating68%
Bruce Pritchard (Malcolm McDowell) is a 24-year-old working-class man and amateur soccer player with a passion for life. All this changes when he suddenly finds himself struck down by an incurable degenerative disease and confined for the rest of his life to a wheelchair. He makes a self-imposed exile to a church-run home for the disabled, believing that it is best for his immediate family to forget about him the way he is now. His bitterness at his fate and his dislike of the rules and regulations of the place only serve to make him more withdrawn and angry at his enforced imprisonment.