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Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, CBE, DL (27 January 1924 – 20 August 2016) was an English actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including Dry Rot, Simple Spymen and One for the Pot.
Brian Rix. Actor: The Night We Got the Bird. Lord Rix, who was the president of Mencap since 1980, was also the entertainer behind a hit run of Whitehall farces in London in the 1950s and 1960s.
Aug 20, 2016 · Brian Rix was one of Britain's most successful actor-managers, once described as the master of farce, and also one of the country's leading charity campaigners.
Aug 20, 2016 · The actor and campaigner Lord Brian Rix has died aged 92, two months after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Aug 7, 2016 · Actor Lord Rix has revealed that terminal illness has left him in constant pain, bed-ridden and unable to sleep. The 92-year-old said he is stricken “like a beached whale” and now longs for ...
Aug 22, 2016 · The actor and learning disabilities campaigner Lord Brian Rix has died aged 92, the charity Mencap has said. He had been ill for some time.
Brian Rix. Actor: The Night We Got the Bird. Lord Rix, who was the president of Mencap since 1980, was also the entertainer behind a hit run of Whitehall farces in London in the 1950s and 1960s.
Aug 20, 2016 · LONDON (AP) — Brian Rix, a comic actor who used his fame to draw attention to the struggles of people with learning disabilities, died Saturday, a British charity said. He was 92 and had been ill for some time.
Sep 2, 2016 · Brian Rix, actor and disability campaigner. Picture: Getty Images. Born: 27 January, 1924, in Cottingham, Yorkshire. Died: 20 August, 2016, in London, aged 92. WWhile Laurence Olivier and John...
A master of farce on stage, film and TV, Brian Rix was an actor, producer and manager known for a long-running and record-breaking association with the Whitehall Theatre. The highest paid BBC Television star in the early 1960s, broadcasts of his farces were national events.
