IN FOND MEMORYNEVILLE BRADBURY (d.1992) |
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His last role was that of Dr. Macfarlane, the Scottish doctor in Hobson's Choice (1989) when, despite ill-health, he gave a polished performance which concealed the effort it must have cost
him. After that illness prevented him from working on shows, although he continued to come down from time to time. The Grapevine has never been the same without him, which is
perhaps the way he would like to be remembered. |
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Neville Bradbury at The Questors |
1968 The Picture 1968 Uncle Vanya 1969 Black Eye'd Susan 1969 Tango 1970 A Collier's Friday Night 1970 Othello 1971 Ding! Dong! 1971 The Rivals 1972 The Alchemist 1972 Time, Life, Sex and You Know What 1972 The Timekeeper 1973 As You Like It 1973 The Ghost Train 1974 Escurial 1974 The Grand Vizier 1974 The Late 1975 After Magritte 1975 Bye-Bye Blues 1975 The Gentle Art of Seduction 1975 The Lover 1975 Occupations 1975 The Price 1975 Transcending 1976 Faustus 1976 Sanctuary 1982 Arsenic and Old Lace 1982 Now You See Him, Now You Don't 1982 Relapse, The 1983 Columbanus 1983 A Dream of Passion 1983 Gone 1983 The Midnight Sun 1984 Abode of Peace 1984 Henry IV Part 1 1984 The Importance of Being Earnest 1984 The Master Builder 1984 Princess Ivona 1985 The Proposal 1986 Destiny 1986 Good 1986 Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn 1988 Love's Sacrifice 1989 Hobson's Choice |
Neville Bradbury, who died in August, was that rare
combination, an actor who also officiated as stage manager and in one capacity or another he served The Questors for
some 36 years. My own memories of Neville, however, go back even further, to the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, in
1951, where we played together in Ostrovsky's Wolves and Sheep.