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  <dc:title>Acting Career</dc:title>
  <dc:description>The Box contains: Contact sheet for 'The Younger Generation' for 'Flow Gently Sweet Afton' (directed by Claude Whatham) starring Bill Douglas; another contact sheet from The Younger Generation shows Bill Douglas; photograph of Bill Douglas on stage from Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop; s election of on-set stills and headshots of The Younger Generation including a group photo with Bill Douglas. Set of mounted photographs and programmes for 'Ride A Cock Horse' and 'Queen Elizabeth Slept Here' produced by the Hambalt Players, an amateur group who featured Bill Douglas acting in a number of productions when he lived in Clapham in the late 1950s. Also includes a covering letter fronm 'Val' sending them to Peter Jewell in 2001, remembering Peter visiting Bill in his lodgings in Abbeville Road in 1959. Douglas's lost script 'Double Twist' was based on his experiences in this amateur troupe. Letters to Bill Douglas from Saxon Logan and Joanna David regarding his acting role in Logan's short film 'Writer' in 1979. Both also express their admiration for the Trilogy. Page from Radio Times in 1999 on John Thaw's acting career, including photograph from 'The Younger Generation' including Douglas.  11 programmes of productions that took place at Strateford East through Theatre Workshop while Bill Douglas was working as an assistant to Joan Littlewood, including 'Oh, What A Lovely War' and 'Sparrers Can't Sing '. In only one of these, William Saroyan's 'Sam, the Highest Jumper of them all', is Douglas credited as an extra.                      </dc:description>
  <dc:date>1959-1984</dc:date>
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