Ian Belsey
Ian Belsey( born 1962) is a lyric baritone specialising in opera of the bel canto period, but is best known for his performances in light music and operetta, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Kenneth Sandford
Kenneth Sandford( 28 June 1924 – 19 September 2004) was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
After service the Royal Air Force during World War II, Sandford turned away from a career in art and studied singing.
He performed in musical theatre in the West End and on tour between 1950 and 1956, including 800 performances starring in a revue called" Jokers Wild" with The Crazy Gang.
He also began a concert career.
In 1957, he was engaged by the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company and immediately began to perform eight principal roles in repertory, including Pooh- Bah in" The Mikado".
He remained with the company for 25 years until it closed, also making about twenty recordings with the company, and several recordings for Readers' Digest and others.
In later years, Sandford continued to tour in and direct Gilbert and Sullivan productions, often with his former D'Oyly Carte colleague Roberta Morrell.
After The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival was established in 1994, he often performed and lectured for the festival's audiences and held master classes for its performers.
Terence Rees
Terence Albert Ladd Rees( 24 February 1928 – 15 November 2014) was a microbiologist but was best known as a collector of material relating to the theatre and music in Wales and Britain.
He was also a published theatre historian and researcher, and, in particular, was an authority on the works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan who, as Gilbert and Sullivan, wrote 14 comic operas in the late Victorian era.
John Joseph Braham, Sr.
John Joseph Braham, Sr.( 1847 – October 28, 1919) was an Anglo- American musical theater conductor and composer who introduced the works of Gilbert and Sullivan to the United States and composed some of the earliest original orchestral scores for silent film.
Braham emigrated from England to America as a child.
As a teenager, he toured as a violinist.
After this he became a conductor and music director at New York and Boston theatres.
In 1879, he conducted the first American production of a Savoy opera," H.M.S. Pinafore" and became associated with Gilbert and Sullivan works for the next decade.
He also conducted a number of other musical theatre works and at music halls.
In 1913 and 1914, he composed musical scores for silent films, including" In the Land of the Head Hunters".
Sidney Gilliat
Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.
He was the son of George Gilliat, editor of the "Evening Standard" between 1928-1933.
Sidney was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire.
In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and "Night Train to Munich" (1940), directed by Carol Reed.
He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama "Millions Like Us" (1943).
From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with "The Rake's Progress", which he also wrote and directed.
He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures.
While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including "Green for Danger" (1946), "London Belongs to Me" (1948) and
"State Secret" (1950).
He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson's opera "Our Man in Havana", based on the novel by Graham Greene.
He had also worked on the film.
The Mikado (1967 film)
The Mikado is a 1967 British musical film adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name.
The film was directed by Stuart Burge and was a slightly edited adaptation of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's production of" The Mikado" and used all D' Oyly Carte singers.
David Henry Friston
David Henry Friston( 1820–1906) was a British illustrator and figure painter in the Victorian Era.
He is best remembered as the creator of the first illustrations of Sherlock Holmes in 1887, as well as his illustrations of the female vampire story" Carmilla"( 1872).
He is also remembered for his illustrations accompanying reviews of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and plays of W. S. Gilbert in" The Illustrated London News" and the" Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News" in the 1870s and 1880s.
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
Gilbert and Sullivan wrote 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical entertainments of the Victorian era and are still popular today.
The film was written by Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Baily, based on Baily's "The Gilbert and Sullivan Book".
It was directed by Gilliat, with cinematography by Christopher Challis and production design by Hein Heckroth.
It was produced by Gilliat and Frank Launder for London Films in time to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Some re-releases of the film re-titled it
The Great Gilbert and Sullivan.
The film was a box-office failure.
Strafford Moss
Frederick Strafford Moss (1 November 1868 – 1941) was a British tenor and actor.
He appeared in the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1897 to 1913, mainly in touring companies of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, following which he had a career in musical theatre on the West End stage until 1931.
John Reed (actor)
John Lamb Reed, OBE( 13 February 1916 – 13 February 2010) was an English actor, dancer and singer, known for his nimble performances in the principal comic roles of the Savoy Operas, particularly with the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Reed has been called" the last great exponent" of the Gilbert and Sullivan comedy roles.
The son of a butcher from County Durham, Reed began performing at the end of World War II, joining the D' Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1951.
After eight years as understudy to Peter Pratt, he became the principal comedian of the company in 1959, remaining for two decades, playing all the famous Gilbert and Sullivan patter roles, including Sir Joseph in" H.M.S. Pinafore", the Major- General in" The Pirates of Penzance", Bunthorne in" Patience", the Lord Chancellor in" Iolanthe", Ko- Ko in" The Mikado", Jack Point in" The Yeomen of the Guard" and the Duke of Plaza Toro in" The Gondoliers", among others.
He was known for his" fleet- footed clowning", dry and roguish wit, comic timing," crystal clear diction" in the patter songs, and his amusing character voice, recording all of his principal roles with the company.
In 1979, Reed left the company but continued performing in and directing Gilbert and Sullivan productions in Britain and America, as well as appearing in other light opera.
He retired to Halifax, West Yorkshire, directing amateur Gilbert and Sullivan companies and attending the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton for many years.

Question: When did the director of film The Story Of Gilbert And Sullivan die?
Answer: 31 May 1994