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- Birth nameHubert Robert Harry Gregg
- At his first school in Bournemouth he used to stand outside the Pavilion Theatre listening to the Follies shows and learning the songs. At 9 he entered a song contest at the Rank Cinema in Sydenham and sang 'Eat More Fruit' In 1939 while in the army at Lincoln a friend came back from leave and remarked about the black out. Hubert said 'I'm going to get lit up when the lights go up in London' and thought it would make a good song. He'd previously done odd lyrics. Three years later it was featured in a West End show After the war he read a lot of Jerome K Jerome on the radio in 'Let's Go Jeroming' He did 18 years of 'Thanks For the Memory' and in the 60's wrote the musical version of 'Three Men in a Boat'.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tonyman 5
- SpousesCarmel Lytton(1980 - March 29, 2004) (his death, 2 children)Pat Kirkwood(1956 - 1979) (divorced)Zoe Gail(1943 - 1950) (divorced, 1 child)
- During World War II, he first served as an officer in the 60th Rifles. His command of German got him posted to the Political Warfare Executive, where he was called upon to broadcast propaganda messages to enemy-occupied territories.
- Wrote more than 200 songs.
- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queens 2002 Birthday Honours list for his services to BBC Radio Broadcasting and to Songwriting.
- Was a chairman of BBC television's Brains Trust (1955).
- Actor, director, composer, lyricist, playwright and broadcaster, trained at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. On stage from 1933, he first came to note as a Shakespearean actor at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park and the Old Vic.
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