Denis Martin

Denis Martin
Birth name	Lorenzo Denis Martin
Also known as	Denis Martin
Born	1920 Belfast, Ireland
Died	October 1988 (aged 67–68) London, England
Genres	Musical theatre Light opera
Occupation(s)	Singer musical arranger director producer
Years active	1940s-1980s
Labels	Parlophone

Denis Martin was a Northern Irish singer,^[1] actor and theatre producer^[2] active in the 1940s to 1980s.

Martin won the All-Ireland tenor competition at Feis Ceoil in 1944, He then moved to England where he performed as a singer^[3] in musical shows and in radio and TV broadcasts. Soon after arriving in England Denis joined the Players' Theatre,^[4][5][6] a permanent music-hall company in London. In 1949 he played the juvenile lead in King's Rhapsody^[7] with Ivor Novello. He went on the become the Director of Production at the Players' Theatre,^[8][9][10] developing and adapting plays for musical theatre.^[11]

Denis's brother Brendan joined him in London as a professional singer at the Windmill Theatre.

Discography

Albums

• Songs of the Emerald Isle (1969)

Singles

• Galway Bay / Terence's Farewell (1948)
• Eileen Oge / Sing Sweet Nightingale (1948)
• Come Back Paddy Reilly / The Last Mile Home (1949)

Stage and screen

Film and television roles

• These Wonderful Shows
• Music for You
• Tonight's the Night (1954)
• Here and Now (TV) (1955)
• The Bamboo Prison (film) (1954)
• Happy Ever After (1954)^[12]
• The Good Old Days (TV) (1969 - 1971)

Radio

• Yuletide in the Music-Hall A Christmas Box at the Players' Theatre; BBC Radio 4, 25 December 1969^[13]

Theatre roles

• The Duenna^[14]
• Pacific 1860 (1946)^[15]
• Tuppence Coloured (1947)
• Oranges and Lemons (1947)
• King's Rhapsody (1949)^[7][16][17]
• The Punch Revue (1955)^[18]

As producer

• A Little of What you Fancy (1968)

References

1. Kitty Black (1984). Upper circle: a theatr. chronicle. Methuen. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-413-51040-2.
2. Plays and Players. 12. Hansom Books. 1965. p. 19.
3. Theatre World. Iliffe Specialist Publications, Limited. 1959. p. 19.
4. Theatre Review. W.H. Allen. 1973. p. 174.
5. Plays and Players. Hansom Books. 1958.
6. Charles Graves (1963). Leather armchairs: the book of London clubs. Coward-McCann. p. 171.
7. Adrian Wright (2010). A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-war British Musical. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-1-84383-542-4.
8. The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. January 1971. p. 33.
9. Raymond Mander; Joe Mitchenson (1965). British music hall: a story in pictures. Studio Vista.
10. The Spectator. Volume 257, Issues 8252-8268. F.C. Westley. 1986. p. 155. (also available online here)
11. Alvin H. Marill (1993). More Theatre: M-Z. Scarecrow Press. p. 1048.
12. Denis Gifford (1998). Entertainers in British Films: A Century of Showbiz in the Cinema. Flicks Books. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-948911-76-7.
13. "Yuletide in the Music-Hall A Christmas Box at the Players' Theatre - BBC Radio 4 FM - 25 December 1969". Radio Times. 18 December 1969. p. 47. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
14. Audrey Williamson (1956). Contemporary Theatre, 1953-1956. Rockliff. pp. 164, 175.
15. "Pacific 1860". Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
16. Stanley Green (30 April 2009). Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Da Capo Press. pp. 234–. ISBN 0-7867-4684-X.
17. "King's Rhapsody". Retrieved 16 February 2013.
18. "The Punch Revue". Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 16 February 2013.

External links

• Denis Martin at the Internet Movie Database
• Duplicate entry at the Internet Movie Database
• Denis Martin at Theatricalia.com