{{Short description|English actor and writer (1946–2013)}} {{EngvarB|date=December 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Brett Usher | image = Brett-usher-publicity-photograph.jpg |alt=man in early middle age, clean shaven, with full head of darkish hair | caption = Usher in the 1970s | birth_date = 10 December 1946 | birth_place = Southgate, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|06|13|1946|12|10|df=y}} | death_place = Stradishall, England | occupation = Actor<br>Ecclesiastical historian | years_active = 1970–2013 }} '''Brett Usher''' (10 December 1946{{space}}– 13 June 2013) was an English actor, writer and ecclesiastical historian. Although he appeared frequently on stage and television, it was as a radio actor that he came to be best known. His many radio roles ranged widely, from farce to Shakespeare and new works. In addition to acting he also wrote for radio.
As a historian Usher specialised in English ecclesiastical history of the 16th and 17th centuries, with particular focus on the Puritans. The first part of his study of church and state politics of Elizabeth I's reign, ''William Cecil and Episcopacy 1559–1577'', was published in 2003. The second part, ''Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577–1603'', which was nearly complete at the time of Usher's death, was published in 2016.
==Life and career==
===Education and acting career=== Usher, who was the only child of Dennis Paget Louis Usher and his wife Margot, was born at Southgate in Middlesex. He was educated at Brentwood School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he studied history. His interest in acting developed at school, where he played several leading parts including Oberon in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and the title role in ''Richard II''. At Cambridge a wider range of acting opportunities was open to him. Among many roles he played Berowne in ''Love's Labour's Lost'' for the Marlowe Society, a production that was taken to the Edinburgh Festival. His performance as Joseph Surface in ''The School for Scandal'' was praised by the reviewer in ''The Times'': {{blockquote|Mr Usher gave by a wide margin the performance of the evening. His movements were assured and stylish, his speaking well-contrasted and clear and he showed a mastery of facial expression that made of Joseph a fascinatingly tortuous creature."<ref>Wade, David. "Scandal sets off shakily", ''The Times'', 23 November 1967, p. 8</ref>|}} The culmination of Usher's undergraduate acting career was the title role in ''Hamlet'' in 1968, also for the Marlowe Society. The society had planned to stage ''The Merchant of Venice'' but, as its secretary told ''The Guardian'', "we found that we did not have a Shylock, but we did have a Hamlet."<ref>O'Callaghan, John. "Hamlet blues", ''The Guardian'', 19 February 1968, p. 6</ref> ''The Times'' remarked that Usher's performance "would be noteworthy in a professional: in an undergraduate it is quite exceptional".<ref>"Wade, David. "A brilliant Hamlet saves the play", ''The Times'', 12 May 1968, p. 13</ref>
After graduation Usher pursued a career as a professional actor. Some of his early work was at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, where in 1970 he was, in J. C. Trewin's words, "an uncommonly good Don John" in ''Much Ado About Nothing'';<ref>Trewin, J. C. "When the Parish Pump Runs Dry", ''Illustrated London News'', 1 August 1970, p. 31</ref> the following season he won Trewin's praise for his performance as Friar Laurence in ''Romeo and Juliet''.<ref>Trewin, J. C. "All Change", ''Illustrated London News'', 28 August 1971, p. 45</ref> He played in the annual seasons of ''Toad of Toad Hall'' in 1970–71 and 1971–72.<ref>Parker, p, 215 and Herbert, p. 27</ref> His stage roles in subsequent years included Malvolio to Robert Lang's Sir Toby in ''Twelfth Night'' (1972);<ref>"Regent's Park Twelfth Night to tour", ''The Times'', 25 September 1972, p. 7</ref> the rebel in Peter Ustinov's ''The Unknown Soldier and His Wife'' opposite the author as the Archbishop (1973),<ref>Billington, Michael. "Ustinov's new play at the New London", ''The Guardian'', 12 January 1973, p. 8</ref> and Allmers in Ibsen's ''Little Eyolf'' (1975).<ref>Ward, David. "Little Eyolf", ''The Guardian'', 20 March 1975, p. 10</ref> In 1981, during a year as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company he played roles including the Duke of Venice and the Prince of Arragon in ''The Merchant of Venice'' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and at the Aldwych Theatre in London.<ref>Billington, Michael. "The Merchant of Venice", ''The Guardian'', 22 April 1981, p. 10</ref>
On television, Usher's first big assignment was the lead role of Michael Fane in a BBC serialisation of Compton Mackenzie's novel ''Sinister Street'' (1969),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530211000/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b8c6314032a1407a8f8c057d154cba51 "Sinister Street"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> but he was perhaps best known for his role as Ken Beaumont in ''A Family at War'' (1970). Other TV appearances included ''Disraeli'' (1978), in which he played Edward Bulwer-Lytton.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078601/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast "Disraeli"], Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 31 May 2015</ref> In 1989 he played the American orator Patrick Henry in Ludovic Kennedy's BBC television study of oratory, ''Reason and Intellect''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530210054/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b79d9ed47 "Reason and Intellect"], British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> It was as a radio actor that Usher came to be best known; he worked continually for BBC radio for many years, not only as an actor but also as a writer. In the 1980s BBC radio broadcast two plays by him: ''The Last Two Hours of Anthony Anderson'' (1986) and ''Hyacinth'' (1987).<ref>[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/80dc5486cb024f87bb147ef619078fa8 "Thirty Minute Theatre"] and [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/80dc5486cb024f87bb147ef619078fa8 "Thirty Minute Theatre"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> In the early 1990s he wrote a radio play based on ''The Baby Grand'' by the 1920s novelist and short story writer Stacy Aumonier.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141020084102/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b712f239b49642a293ed558d9aed8b07 "Aumonier's World"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> In 1986 BBC Radio 3 broadcast a non-fiction work by Usher, a talk in which he "relives a personal pilgrimage to the birthplace of Hector Berlioz".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530211303/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/11fb185c65b043d99d970423acbd12a6 "Interval"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref>{{refn| Usher's musical interests ranged from Tudor to 20th century. In 1975 he published a monograph, ''Kurt Weill: An Appreciation'', and in 1994 he contributed an article to the early music magazine ''Consort'' on the 16th and 17th century musical families the Cosyns and the Galliardellos (details in Bibliography).|group = n}} As a historian, his primary interest was the later Tudor and early Stuart period – ''The Times'' described him as "an authority on Jacobean drama"<ref>[http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0F90B5B15D47A4FA&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA "Bowing out with classics and dramatics"], ''The Times'', 27 December 1986</ref> – and it was from then that he chose two neglected plays to adapt for radio, Michael Drayton's ''Sir John Oldcastle'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530224022/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/42ac5252478043378a0042060aa7ad7e "Sir John Oldcastle"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> and John Ford's ''Love's Sacrifice'', broadcast in 1985 and 1986. Usher's version is believed to have been the first professional production of Ford's play since its premiere more than 350 years earlier.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530210540/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2d273ae964474a7894157159a5b2ae34 "Love's Sacrifice"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref>
As a radio actor Usher's range was wide, from farce to tragedy, from classics to modern works, from soap opera to reconstructions of momentous historical events. In Ben Travers's ''Rookery Nook'' he played the Tom Walls role, Clive;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530210400/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c3cba82113c64f0fa2768ee5d050741f "Rookery Nook"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> In a serialised dramatisation of ''Sense and Sensibility'' in 1991 he played Colonel Brandon;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530210437/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8a1bdc274ffa4997805e8c2bcc67697a "Sense and Sensibility"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> in the same year he appeared with Peggy Ashcroft in a new play, ''In the Native State'' by Tom Stoppard.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530211323/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ab08eca1b8f47dcbf8a0d4fa5019bbb "In the Native State"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> Another 1991 role, that of Charles I in a dramatisation of the king's trial, was followed in 1992 by the role of the supreme grand master in a six-episode adaptation of the Terry Pratchett novel ''Guards! Guards!''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530211037/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/97862b534b9444c18acfe47201d1bf81 "Upon Life"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015; and [http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/g/gu/guards__guards_.html "Guards! Guards!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420090646/http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/g/gu/guards__guards_.html |date=20 April 2015 }}, Radio Listings. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> He made occasional appearances in two of BBC Radio's long-running soap operas, ''The Archers'' and ''Waggoner's Walk'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141019185117/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8af0c5a4a72f406eac6e0cdf8662cac1 "The Archers"], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204525/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bc4b3744d3514d709b722961b5cc7b63 "Waggoner's Walk"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> and at around the same time played Richmond in ''Richard III''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530203122/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/647a66d6bc034a3180c6a7fcecf05739 "Richard III"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref>
===Historian=== In addition to his acting career, Usher was a historian. He was visiting research fellow in history at the University of Reading and also lectured at St Mary's College, Twickenham.<ref name=lb>[http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=1219171556&edition_id=1219187220&calcTitle=1 "Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577–1603], Ashgate. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> He specialised in ecclesiastical history of the 16th and 17th centuries, with particular focus on the Puritans. The ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (ODNB) commissioned more than fifty biographies from him, some of English clerics of the pre-Reformation period, but mostly of the clergy of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. His biographies cover the struggle between the many post-Reformation factions in the Church of England. Among his subjects were John Aylmer, George Gifford and Arthur Dent – not omitting in the article on the last to mention Dent's more familiar 20th-century namesake.<ref>Usher, Brett. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7511 "Dent, Arthur (1552/3–1603)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2005. Retrieved 28 May 2015 {{ODNBsub}}</ref> Usher was a founder-member of the Church of England Record Society, 1991; a member of the working committee of the John Foxe Project until 2004; and a founder-member of the Church of England Clergy Data Base Project in 1997. He was associate editor of the ODNB, 1998–2004 and research associate, 2005–13. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2003.<ref name=gale>[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/GLD/hits?r=d&origSearch=true&o=DataType&n=10&l=d&c=1&locID=wes_ttda&secondary=false&u=CA&t=KW&s=2&NA=Brett+Usher "Brett Usher"], Contemporary Authors. Retrieved 30 May 2015 {{subscription required}}</ref>
[[File:Brett-Usher-subjects-reformation.jpg|thumb|left|Usher's subjects included, top left clockwise, William Cecil, Bishop Aylmer, Archbishop Parker and John Foxe]] Usher's principal historical work was ''William Cecil and Episcopacy 1559–1577'', published by Ashgate in 2003. In this book Usher examined how Elizabeth I's chief minister, William Cecil, helped the queen to restore religious stability to a country wracked by two decades of divisions and uncertainty. A key to this was the future structure of the church, and Usher analysed the role of the bishops and their relationships with Cecil. The book received numerous favourable reviews, praising its combination of scholarship and readability. ''The Church Times'' said, "Readers who like detective stories{{space}}... will enjoy Usher's verve in turning taxation, land exchanges and long leases into a story of politics, personalities and ecclesiastical intrigue".<ref>MacCulloch, Diarmid. "Why we have bishops", ''The Church Times'', 7 May 2004, p. 20</ref> The reviewer in the ''Sixteenth Century Journal'' praised the book for correcting two widespread misconceptions about the church history of the period: "it puts paid to the idea that Elizabethan government intentionally exploited ''sede vacante'' opportunities; and it gives the reader a clear picture of hardworking, conscientious bishops, laying to rest the old chestnut that they were merely timeserving opportunists."<ref name=lh>[http://www.lundhumphries.com/isbn/9780754608349 "William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559–1577"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530205902/http://www.lundhumphries.com/isbn/9780754608349 |date=30 May 2015 }}, Lund Humphries and Ashgate. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> The ''Archive for Reformation History'' called the book "an example of that comparatively rare genre; a piece of genuinely original research". The reviewer added, "The sequel can only be anticipated with enthusiasm".<ref name=lh/> A second part was planned, and was substantially completed, but Usher did not live to see it through publication. The final editing of the manuscript was undertaken by Kenneth Fincham, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Kent. The book was published in 2016, under the title ''Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577–1603''.<ref>WorldCat {{oclc|934635230}}</ref>
In addition to the Cecil book, Usher published several substantial essays and papers. They include "The Deanery of Bocking and the Demise of the Vestiarian Controversy", published in 2001, examining the eventual failure of Archbishop Matthew Parker to impose conformity throughout the country with the 1559 Book of Common Prayer,<ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=88427 "The Deanery of Bocking and the Demise of the Vestiarian Controversy"], ''The Journal of Ecclesiastical History''. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> and an essay, ''Foxe in London 1550–87'', a 9,000-word study of aspects of the life of John Foxe published in 2011.<ref>Usher, Brett. [http://www.johnfoxe.org/index.php?realm=more&gototype=modern&type=essay&book=essay6 "Foxe in London 1550–87"] The Acts and Monuments Online. Retrieved 30 May 2015</ref> He was co-editor of ''Conferences and Combination Lectures in the Elizabethan Church'' (2003), and a contributor to books including ''The Myth of Elizabeth'' (2003), ''The Elizabethan World'' (2003), ''Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America'' (2006), and ''The Tudors and Stuarts on Film'' (2009).<ref name=gale/>
Usher died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Stradishall, Suffolk, survived by his wife Carolynn, and their two daughters.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204907/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary-preview.aspx?n=brett-usher&pid=165418955&referrer=2282 Obituary], ''The Times'', 20 June 2013 {{subscription required}}</ref> He was buried at St Mary the Virgin church, Dedham, Suffolk.
==Bibliography==
===As author=== * {{cite book | title= Kurt Weill: An Appreciation| year= 1975| location= York | publisher= privately printed }} * {{cite book | title= William Cecil and Episcopacy 1559–1577| year= 2003| location= Aldershot, UK; Burlington, US |series= St Andrews studies in Reformation history | publisher= Ashgate | isbn=978-0-7546-0834-9 }} * {{cite book | title= Lord Burghley and Episcopacy 1577–1603| year= 2016| location= Farnham, UK; Burlington, US |series= St Andrews studies in Reformation history | publisher= Ashgate | isbn=978-1-4724-5969-5 }}
===As editor=== * {{cite book | author=with Patrick Collinson | author2= John Craig | title= Conferences and combination lectures in the Elizabethan church: Dedham and Bury St Edmunds, 1582–1590 | year= 2003| location= Woodbridge, UK | publisher= Boydell | isbn=978-1-84615-050-0 }}
===As contributor (books)===
====''ODNB'' articles==== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * John Aylmer *Thomas Barbar *John Barthlet *Edward Brocklesby *James Calfhill *Roger Carr *Edmund Chapman *Thomas Cole *William Cole *Nicholas Crane *Thomas Crooke *Culverwell family *William Day *Arthur Dent *Stephen Egerton *Richard Fletcher *John Freeman *Caesar Galliardello *Mark Anthony Galliardello *Thomas Gatacre *Thomas Gataker *George Gifford *William Gouge *John Gough *George Heton *Martin Heton *Thomas Heton *William Hubbock *Robert Hutton *Nicholas Kervile *Thomas Knell *William Negus *Josias Nicholls *Robert Norton * Oliver Pigg *John Plough *Robert Rich *Arthur Saul *Gregory Scott *Thomas Simpson *John Standish *John Sterne *Richard Stock *John Thornborough *Henry Tripp *Richard Vaughan *Thomas Watts *George Withers *Richard Wolman *Robert Wright *John Young.<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/search/results/contributors.jsp?contributorId=5783 "Brett Usher"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2005. Retrieved 31 May 2015 {{ODNBsub}}</ref> {{div col end}}
====Other (books)==== ''In order of publication'' * {{cite book |chapter= The Jew that Shakespeare Drew | title= Christianity and Judaism: papers read at the 1991 Summer Meeting and the 1992 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society |editor= Diana Wood | year=1992 | location= Cambridge, US | publisher= Blackwell | isbn=978-0-631-18497-3 }} * {{cite book |chapter= The Silent Community: Early Puritans and the Patronage of the Arts | title= The Church and the Arts |editor= Diana Wood | year= 1992| location= Oxford | publisher= Blackwell| isbn= 978-0-631-18043-2}} * {{cite book |chapter= In a time of persecution: new light on the secret Protestant congregation in Marian London | title= John Foxe and the English Reformation|editor= D M Loades | year= 1997| location= Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, US | publisher= Scolar Press | isbn=978-1-85928-351-6 }} * {{cite book |chapter= Backing Protestantism: The London Godly, the Exchequer and the Foxe Circle| title= John Foxe: An Historical Perspective |editor= D M Loades | year= 1999| location= Brookfield, US | publisher= Ashgate | isbn=978-1-84014-678-3 }} * {{cite book |chapter= Edward Brockelsby: ''The first put out of his living for the surplice'' | title= From Cranmer to Davidson: a Church of England miscellany |editor= Stephen Taylor | year= 1999| location= Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, US | publisher= Boydell | isbn= 978-0-85115-742-9}} * {{cite book |chapter= Expedient and experiment: the Elizabethan lay reader | title= Continuity and change in Christian worship: papers read at the 1997 Summer Meeting and the 1998 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society |editor= R N Swanson | year= 1999| location= Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, US| publisher= Boydell | isbn=978-0-9529733-4-8 }} * {{cite book |chapter= Queen Elizabeth and Mrs Bishop | title= The Myth of Elizabeth|editor= Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman | year= 2003| location= Basingstoke and New York | publisher= Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-0-333-93083-0 }} * {{cite book |chapter= Essex evangelicals under Edward VI: Richard Lord Rich, Richard Alvey and their circle | title= John Foxe at home and abroad |editor= D M Loades | year= 2004| location= Aldershot, UK and Burlington, US | publisher= Ashgate | isbn=978-0-7546-3239-9 }} * {{cite book |chapter= Aylmer, John and ten others | title= Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia |editor= Francis J Bremer and Tom Webster | year= 2006| location= Santa Barbara, US | publisher= ABC-CLIO | isbn=978-1-57607-678-1 }} * {{cite book |chapter= The Fortunes of English Puritanism: an Elizabethan perspective| title= Religious politics in post-reformation England: essays in honour of Nicholas Tyacke |editor= Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake | year= 2006| location= Woodbridge | publisher= Boydell | isbn= 978-1-84383-253-9}} * {{cite book |chapter= Thomas Walbot: the Last 'Freewiller' in Elizabethan England? | title= Discipline and diversity: papers read at the 2005 Summer Meeting and the 2006 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society |editor= Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory | year= 2007| location= Woodbridge | publisher= Boydell Press | isbn= 978-0-9546809-3-0}} * {{cite book |chapter= Shakespeare in love: Elizabeth I as ''Dea ex Machina'' | title= Tudors and Stuarts on film: historical perspectives|editor= Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman | year= 2009| location= Houndmills, UK and New York | publisher= Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-1-4039-4070-4 }} * {{cite book |chapter= New wine into old bottles: the doctrine and structure of the Elizabethan church | title= The Elizabethan World | editor= Susan Doran and Norman L Jones | year= 2011 | location= Milton Park UK and New York | publisher= Routledge | isbn=978-0-415-40959-9}}
====Other (journals)==== *"The Cosyns and the Galliardellos: Two Elizabethan Musical Dynasties", ''The Consort – European Journal of Early Music'', Volume 50, No 2, Autumn 1994, pp. 95–110. {{ISSN|0268-9111}} *"Durham and Winchester Episcopal Estates and the Elizabethan Settlement: A Reappraisal", ''The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'', Volume 49, No 3, July 1998, pp 393–406. {{ISSN|0022-0469}} *"The Deanery of Bocking and the Demise of the Vestiarian Controversy", ''The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'', Volume 52, No 3, July 2001, pp 434–455. {{ISSN|0022-0469}} *Review of ''John Le Neve, Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, 1541–1857, X: Coventry and Lichfield diocese'', compiled by Joyce M. Horn, ''The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'', Volume 55, No 3, July 2004, p. 591. {{ISSN|0022-0469}} *"John Jewel Junked", ''The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'', Volume 59, No 3, July 2008, pp. 501–511. {{ISSN|0022-0469}} *Review of ''Bishops, wives and children. Spiritual capital across the generations'', by Douglas J Davies and Mathew Guest, ''The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'', Volume 60, No 3, July 2009, pp 640–641. {{ISSN|0022-0469}}
==Notes, references and sources==
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===Sources=== * {{cite book|editor-last= Parker|editor-first=John |year= 1972|title=Who's Who in the Theatre |edition=fifteenth|location=London |publisher=Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons |isbn=978-0-273-31528-5}} * {{cite book |editor-last=Herbert |editor-first=Ian |year=1977 |title=Who's Who in the Theatre |edition=sixteenth |location=London |publisher=Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons |isbn=978-0-273-00163-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhointheatre00herb }}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0882310}}
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