Derek Hart
Actor, Film actor
1925 – 1986
Who was Derek Hart?
Derek Osborne Hart was a British actor, journalist and broadcaster best known for his appearances on the BBC's current affairs programme of the 1950s and 1960s, Tonight.
Hart was born in Hertfordshire and educated in Bath, Somerset. As an interviewer, Hart's subjects included Lon Chaney Jr and John Wyndham. In 1969 he interviewed Christopher Isherwood for the Omnibus documentary series. In 1968 he hosted a series of arts programmes, Tempo, in the course of which he interviewed major theatrical figures such as Michael Hordern and Sybil Thorndike. He also narrated documentaries on subjects such as The Industrial Relations Act: An Introduction and W. Somerset Maugham.
For the children's LP series Tale Spinners for Children, he played the role of Sir Lancelot on the album Knights of the Round Table, the role of Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver in Lilliput, and the role of Johann Sebastian Bach on the album The Story of Bach.
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- Born
- Mar 18, 1925
Hertfordshire - Also known as
- Derek Osborne Hart
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 23, 1986
London
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on July 23, 2013
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