Denis Martin (1920 – October 1988) was a Northern Irish singer,
actor and theatre producer active in the 1940s to 1980s.
Martin won the All-Ireland tenor competition at
Feis Ceoil
Feis Ceoil ( ; "Festival of Music") is an Irish music organisation which holds an annual competitive festival of classical music. It was first organised in Dublin in 1897 by Dr. Annie Patterson and Edward Martyn for the purpose of stimulating musi ...
in 1944, He then moved to England where he performed as a singer in musical shows and in radio and TV broadcasts. Soon after arriving in England Denis joined the
Players' Theatre,
a permanent music-hall company in London. In 1949 he played the juvenile lead in
King's Rhapsody with
Ivor Novello. He went on the become the Director of Production at the Players' Theatre,
developing and adapting plays for musical theatre.
Denis's brother Brendan joined him in London as a professional singer at the
Windmill Theatre
The Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, London, was a variety and revue theatre best known for its nude '' tableaux vivants'', which began in 1932 and lasted until its reversion to a cinema in 1964. Many prominent British comedians o ...
.
Discography
Albums
* ''Songs of the Emerald Isle'' (1969)
Singles
* Galway Bay / Terence's Farewell (1948)
* Eileen Oge / Sing Sweet Nightingale (1948)
* Come Back Paddy Reilly / The Last Mile Home (1949)
Stage and screen
Film and television roles
* These Wonderful Shows
* Music for You
* Tonight's the Night (1954)
* Here and Now (TV) (1955)
* The Bamboo Prison (film) (1954)
* Happy Ever After (1954)
*
The Good Old Days (TV) (1969 - 1971)
Radio
* ''Yuletide in the Music-Hall A Christmas Box at the Players' Theatre'';
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
, 25 December 1969
Theatre roles
* ''
The Duenna
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''
* ''
Pacific 1860'' (1946)
* ''Tuppence Coloured'' (1947)
* ''Oranges and Lemons'' (1947)
* ''
King's Rhapsody'' (1949)
* ''The Punch Revue'' (1955)
As producer
* ''A Little of What you Fancy'' (1968)
References
External links
*
*
Denis Martin at Theatricalia.com
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20th-century male singers from Northern Ireland
1920 births
1988 deaths
Musicians from Belfast
20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland