If you've come this far and you're interested in going a little further, please join me in a trip down memory lane. My wonderful mother was instrumental in my journey and career in the performing arts. She kept a scrapbook of my early theatre and television work. This page wouldn't be complete without sharing some of her select photos and clippings from these early years. Enjoy!

I first studied theatre, drama, poetry and elocution at the Dadye Rutherford School for the Dramatic Arts.

"Auntie" Dadye was very competitive and entered her students in numerous speech arts festivals and talent contests. Those were the days of bow ties and lipstick.

I became a member of Actors Equity in 1966, and began performing professionally with the touring production of the Broadway hit musical, Oliver! starring Jules Munshin and Roma Hearn. Margo Kidder played the role of the undertaker's daughter, 'Charlotte.'

Director Stone Widney cast me as the understudy to the title role and I also performed in the boy's chorus. The show opened at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, then toured to the Seattle Opera House (now the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall), and finished at the Portland's Keller Auditorium. These are grand theatres with seating capacity for approximately 3,000 people.

The following year (1967) I was cast in the role of 'Kurt' in the touring production of The Sound of Music starring Dorothy Collins and Maximilian Schell.

I went on to play the title role in Oliver! for the memorable reopening of Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) at Malkin Bowl, the classic outdoor venue in Stanley Park, Vancouver.

"Please, Sir, I want some more."

"...he gives a pretty good imitation of a hissing cat." (one of my best performances ever)

Best Actress winner, Cecilia Smith (the definitive Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady) and BC Entertainment Hall of Fame actress Doris Buckingham who presented the E.V. Young awards (TUTS) 1970.

Sharing a hug with Cecilia Smith in 2017. The stuff of great memories!

The days when the newspaper would publish the address of your family home.

Dance choreography was hard.

Flying was fun.

That time I ran away with The DandyLion and the traveling circus.

Graeme Campbell was a memorable King Arthur and became my acting mentor. He was talented and generous, with a long career in stage, film and television. I went on to play Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island with Graeme as the charming and dangerous Long John Silver. Performing with this calibre of actor raises everyone's level.

Paddy Crean was the director and staged all of the amazing swordplay and fight scenes. He looked a lot like Errol Flynn and actually worked as Flynn's stand-in and stunt double in film.

The show played for two consecutive Christmas seasons at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver. We also toured and were the first Canadian production mounted at the newly constructed National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.

Sharing a laugh with Governor General Roland Michener and his wife. On the right is Director (and Errol Flynn look-alike) Paddy Crean. Actor/mentor/Long John Silver, Graeme Campbell, is in the middle wearing the fab 60's lounge suit. #lovingeveryminute