Lionel Hale
Lionel Hale | |
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| Born | 26 October 1909  |
| Died | 1 January 1977, 15 May 1977 (aged 67) |
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Lionel Hale (26 October 1909 – 1 January 1977) was an English critic, broadcaster and playwright.
He was born in Beckenham, Kent.
In the 1940s, Hale presented the radio quiz Transatlantic Quiz[1] and an early television quiz show called Quiz with Hale. He made regular appearances on Panorama between 1953 and 1955 as a theatre critic,[2] and was featured as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 3 January 1958.[3] One of Hale's plays, These Two, ran for a short time (8 days) on Broadway in May, 1934. These Two was a three-act drama set in a flat in London.[4] He was also a frequent contributor to Punch, the British humor magazine.
His wife, Betty Taylor died in 1952. Their son was the publisher and literary agent James Hale (1946-2003).[5] Lionel subsequently married Crystal Pudney, the daughter of A. P. Herbert.[5]
Bibliography
- Hale, Lionel (1961). A Fleece of Lambs. Jonathan Cape.
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References
- ^ "'Transatlantic Quiz' - Light Programme - 5 August 1945 - BBC Genome". Radio Times. 3 August 1945. p. 7. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ Horace Newcomb (ed.), Encyclopedia of Television p1718. Accessed 14 November 2014
- ^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Lionel Hale". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ Internet Broadway database
- ^ a b "James Hale - Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph. 25 August 2003. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
External links
- Lionel Hale at IMDb
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