Goodbye Richard, you were
one of the good guys in many ways and gave your all to what you believed in. You were a fine actor and director as well as
contributor to all our lives. What
interests me is who may have been influences that played at least a small part
in your later life.
The picture above is the
staff of the Wyggeston Boys Grammar School in 1933. In the second row and standing, sixth from
the left is "Doc" Outram, short and slight with a small moustache and
eighth, Cecil Dunford, taller and bigger, with a button upped jacket.
Outram was an English
teacher who believed in the power of words and the beauty and strength of the
English language. Dunford was a distinguished
minor artist, with an eye for landscape, distance and colour and also an artist
veteran of the First World War.
You did them proud.
I liked him best in Séance on a Wet Afternoon, but Brighton Rock was good too.
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