John Turner(I)

Born in Londo, he was brought up in Nottingham where his father taught interior design at the College of Art. An early interest in the theatre found him taking part in the school dramatic society plays at High Pavement School in Nottingham, and, later with three Nottingham Dramatic Societies at once, spending all his evenings at one or other of them. This resulted in him winning a scholarship to RADA, then to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford for a season. In 1953, he toured Australia and New Zealand in Shakespeare productions. In 1955, he joined Peter Brooks's Hamlet company for a Russian and Moscow tour. He married a girl from Stratford-upon-Avon.