Master Thomas Criddle

Thomas Criddle (9th March 1928 - 6th March 2008) was an English actor who rose to fame in the early 1940s as the boy soprano ‘Master Thomas Criddle’.
The actor Tom Criddle rose to fame in the early 1940s as the boy soprano “Master Thomas Criddle” after recording ten popular songs for HMV at its Abbey Road Studios and touring with the likes of Katharine Hepburn and Donald Wolfit. He was featured several times on BBC's "Children's Hour" and appeared in films, Out of the Unknown (1965), Vanity Fair (1967) and Oil Strike North (1975).
He was one of the last surviving professional boy sopranos from an era when many boy actors and singers were in full-time theatrical employment from the age of 14. The demise of music hall and variety brought to an end the long and unique tradition of which Criddle played an important part.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played Master Thomas Criddle's 'That Old Fashioned Mother of Mine', as one of the songs for the Peelenium 1919. However, Thomas Criddle was not even alive in 1919, but in fact born in 1928. Thomas Criddle's version of 'That Old Fashioned Mother Of Mine', was recorded in the 1940's.
==Shows Played==
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*29 June 1999: That Old Fashioned Mother Of Mine (Peelenium 1919)
==External Links==
*The Times (Obituary)
*IMDb
Category:Actors
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