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Michael Henry Flanders OBE (1 March 1922 – 14 April 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his stage partnership with Donald Swann . As a young man Flanders seemed to be heading for a successful acting career.
Apr 16, 1975 · Michael Flanders, the British lyricist, humorist and actor who performed from a wheelchair because of the effects of polio, collapsed and died Monday night while on vacation in Wales. Mr....
Michael Flanders was born on 1 March 1922 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Before the Fringe (1967), Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971) and The New Explorers (1955). He was married to Claudia Cockburn Davis. He died on 14 April 1975 in Betws-y-coed, Wales, UK.
- March 1, 1922
- April 14, 1975
Aug 8, 2014 · – Michael Flanders, introduction to “The Gnu,” At the Drop of a Hat (1960) As Michael Flanders says, the animal songs made him and his partner Donald Swann famous. The duo’s best-known such number may be “The Hippopotamus,” with its cheerful, waltzing chorus of. Mud, mud, glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
Michael Henry Flanders OBE (1 March 1922 – 14 April 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his stage partnership with Donald Swann.
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Michael Henry Flanders was born in North London, on 1st March 1922, to theatrical and musical parents. He was educated at Westminster School where he shone in athletics, rowing and, especially, school dramatics. In his last term he devised, wrote, directed and acted in a school revue GO TO IT!, asking a talented contemporary, Donald Swann, to ...
1959 New York, Broadway. At the Drop of a Hat is a musical revue by Flanders and Swann, described by them as "an after-dinner farrago". [1] In the show, they both sang on a nearly bare stage, accompanied by Swann on the piano. The songs were linked by contemporary social commentary, mostly by Flanders.
