Our man was born in Holland and migrated to Australia with his parents. he has been a member of various Australian pop groups.
Relax-n said
08:57 AM Dec 21, 2021
Is he a well known member of the band ?
Or is he just a band member ?
Little River Band, Sherbet, Masters Apprentices, Easybeats, The Twighlights, and the list goes on..
sandman55 said
10:33 AM Dec 21, 2021
Your sooo close. He is not the lead singer and he is the one with curly (sometimes wavy) hair in one of the bands you mentioned.
Relax-n said
12:22 PM Dec 21, 2021
With thanks to searching bands and lots of pics on google, I think I have narrowed it all the way down to Beeb Birtles, LRB
sandman55 said
02:11 PM Dec 21, 2021
You win the prize Beeb Birtles it is, we all look a bit different when we are older . Over to you for a pic.
Beeb Birtles (born Gerard Bertelkamp, 28 November 1948) is a Dutch Australian musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has been a member of various Australian groups including Zoot (196771), Mississippi (197274), Little River Band (197583), and Birtles Shorrock Goble (200207). He has also worked as a solo artist, including releasing an album, Driven by Dreams (2000). In 2004 Birtles and other members of the classic line-up of Little River Band were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Relax-n said
03:59 PM Dec 21, 2021
Thanks Sandman
So who is this young spritely person ?
-- Edited by Relax-n on Tuesday 21st of December 2021 09:04:29 PM
EDIT: I'm guessing a cricketer but I have had a look and nothing has come up. I will have another look later.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Wednesday 22nd of December 2021 01:28:50 PM
Relax-n said
02:18 PM Dec 22, 2021
sandman55 wrote:
I don't recognise him. Maybe someone else will.
EDIT: I'm guessing a cricketer but I have had a look and nothing has come up. I will have another look later.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Wednesday 22nd of December 2021 01:28:50 PM
Yes, he is definitely a cricketer, a well known one at that
Relax-n said
11:39 PM Dec 22, 2021
He has not been seen on our TV screens for a while, but has made a recent appearance, cos of da cricket..
sandman55 said
05:07 PM Dec 23, 2021
I thought I posted this last night but maybe I was called for teaI have never really followed cricket but I imagine there are a few cricket fans out there that would know more than me. Is he an Aussie?
Relax-n said
08:24 PM Dec 23, 2021
Not an Aussie, he is from overseas
The pic is of the younger player
If the pic was of the older player it would give him away
sandman55 said
11:20 PM Dec 23, 2021
Wow I think I have found him, Ian Botham. I have heard his name but I know nothing of him.
Relax-n said
09:25 AM Dec 24, 2021
sandman55 wrote:
Wow I think I have found him, Ian Botham. I have heard his name but I know nothing of him.
Thats him Sandman
Ian Terence Botham, Baron Botham, Kt, OBE is an English cricket commentator, member of the House of Lords and a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017. Wikipedia
I have to finish wrapping Chrissie presents yet. I have to go now.
-- Edited by watsea on Friday 24th of December 2021 09:42:50 PM
-- Edited by watsea on Friday 24th of December 2021 09:43:18 PM
sandman55 said
10:06 PM Dec 24, 2021
You have got it watsea over to you for a pic.
Bernard "Midget" FarrellyAM (13 September 1944 6 August 2016) was the first world surfing champion.
Farrelly, was the first Australian to win a major surfing title, the 1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships, the unofficial world surfing championship of the day.[1] In 1964 he won the inaugural World Surfing Championship at Manly Beach in Sydney.[2][3][4]
Farrelly was also the first president, in 1961, of Australia's oldest surfboard riders club, Dee Why Surfing Fraternity, which still operates under the same name today.[5] He presented a ten-part television series about surfing in Australia, The Midget Farrelly Surf Show, for the ABC in 1967.[6]
Ron Taylor began diving in 1952 and became interested in spearfishing and underwater photography.[4] He met Valerie while both were members of the St George Spearfishing Club in Sydney. They became champion spearfishers, but switched from killing sharks to filming them after becoming fascinated with marine life. They married in December 1963.[3] They made their living in the 1960s by making wet suits and selling underwater cameras, plus doing artwork for magazines.
Taylor won the Australian Open Spearfishing Championships for four years in succession before winning the World Spearfishing Championship in Tahiti in 1965.[4][5][6]
Taylor's first major underwater film production, The Shark Hunters (1962), was made with diving and business partner Ben Cropp.[4][7] In 1964, he made the Slaughter at Saumarez, the first Australian diving adventure to the Coral Sea aboard professional fishing boat Riversong with free divers John Harding, Bob Grounds and Ron Zangari with Captain Wally Muller.
In 1966, the Taylors sold their shark documentary Revenge of a Shark Victimto producer Robert Raymond who won a Logie Award for his adaptation with new footage.
The Taylors were employed by the Belgian Scientific Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef as advisers and 35 mm underwater cinematographers, for six months, the first major educational project of this type on the Great Barrier Reef sponsored by University of Liège, Belgium. In 1969, Ron co-filmed Blue Water, White Death with Stan Waterman, Peter Lake and Peter Gimbel.[8]
In 1974, the Taylors, assisted by Rodney Fox (above water), filmed the live shark underwater sequences for Jaws.[4] They also filmed the live shark underwater sequences for Jaws 2 (1978)[9] and the shark sequences for the film Orca (1976).[10] In 1978, they published Great Shark Stories book.[9]
Taylor first devised an idea of a diver wearing a full-length chain-mail suit over a wet suit as possible protection against shark bite in the 1960s but it was more than a decade before the suit was made and tested but it was found the suit was too small for Ron so Valerie wore it to test it with sharks.[4]
In 1979, the Taylors filmed the underwater scenes for, The Blue Lagoon. While on a dive trip in 1981, the Taylors discovered mining claims on several Coral Sea Islands. They brought this to the attention of the Australian Federal Government and saved these remote bird breeding islands.
Wreck of the Yongala, a TV documentary, was made in 1982, showcasing what was then the most spectacular of shipwrecks in shallow water. It was instrumental in having the wreck protected from fishing.[4] The Taylors, inspired by Cairns game fishing charter boat captain Peter Bristow, lobbied via the media, the Queensland Government and National Parks to have the potato cod of Cormorant Pass near Lizard Island protected.
They were the first people to film great white sharkswithout the protection of a cage or anything else during the making of the series Blue Wilderness, Episode, Shark Shocker in January 1992, a huge milestone in ocean exploration together with South Africans Theo Ferreira, Craig Ferreira, George Askew and Piet van der Walt, founders of the South African great white shark cage diving industry. They tested an electronic shark-repelling barrier there. They were also the first to film sharks by night.[11]Shadow over the Reef (1993) was filmed at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia and was instrumental in preventing the test drilling for oil inside the Ningaloo Marine Park. The Taylors' documentary Shark Pod (1997) used the Protective Oceanic Deviceinvented in South Africa by Norman Starkey of the Natal Sharks Board against great white sharks, tiger sharks, hammerhead sharks, and other shark species.
Could that be Rod Taylor, an Australian actor who made pretty good in Hollywood?
Sheba said
09:56 PM Dec 25, 2021
Definitely is. Who is next ?
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Time Machine, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Birds, and Inglourious Basterds.
Nancy Wake (19122011), aka 'Madame Andrée' and codenamed 'White Mouse' and 'Witch', was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II. She is famed for her courageous undercover activities in occupied France from 1940 to 1943, first as a courier of a French Resistance network and later with an escape network until it was betrayed. In December 1943 she left France and reached Britain where she joined the British Special Operations Executive, working with the Maquis resistance fighters from 1944 to 1945.
Having earlier witnessed the brutality of the Nazi regime as a journalist, Wake joined the French Resistance in 1940 and risked her life in a network helping Jewish people and Allied servicemen to escape. Wake's network was very successful, and the Gestapo codenamed her 'White Mouse'. She was ordered to flee France in 1943 when the network was betrayed. Her husband, French industrialist Henri Fiocca, remained behind. He was killed by the Gestapo.
Parachuted back into France in April 1944, Wake helped organise and fought alongside the Maquis resistance fighters before and after the D-day invasion. Using the alias 'Madame Andrée' and the codename 'Witch', she participated in the sabotage of German installations, organised parachute supply drops and maintained radio contact with the Special Operations Executive. When the radio codes were lost, Wake cycled about 500 kilometres in 72 hours to organise replacement codes.
Wake's view of her wartime exploits was that she was glad she was there and did what she did. Wake hated war but believed that if it came, she, like other women, needed to play an active part. She commented, 'I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas'. She is known to have killed a German sentry to prevent him raising the alarm during a sabotage raid.
Wake was decorated by France, Britain and the United States but official recognition in Australia, the country of her youth, was very slow in coming. After the war she was awarded the George Medal, the French Croix de Guerre with two Palms, the US Medal for Freedom with Palm and the French Medaille de la Resistance. In 1988 she was awarded the French Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and, in 2004, she was finally appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.
After the war, Wake worked as a clerk for the British in France and then returned to Australia in 1948. In 1949 and 1951 she stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Party candidate for the federal parliamentary seat of Barton and narrowly lost to HV Evatt. In 1951, she left Australia for Britain where she remarried in 1957. Returning to Australia with her husband in 1960, Wake again stood for parliament in 1966 without success. After the death of her husband, she returned to London to live in 2001.
Well done Sheba and no clues, over to you for a pic.
Dame Margaret Evelyn de AriasDBE (néeHookham; 18 May 1919 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company), eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II. Beginning ballet lessons at the age of four, she studied in England and China, where her father was transferred for his work. Her training in Shanghai was with George Goncharov, contributing to her continuing interest in Russian ballet. Returning to London at the age of 14, she was invited to join the Vic-Wells Ballet School by Ninette de Valois. She succeeded Alicia Markova as prima ballerina of the company in 1935. The Vic-Wells choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, wrote numerous parts for Fonteyn and her partner, Robert Helpmann, with whom she danced from the 1930s to the 1940s.
In 1946, the company, now renamed the Sadler's Wells Ballet, moved into the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden where Fonteyn's most frequent partner throughout the next decade was Michael Somes. Her performance in Tchaikovskys The Sleeping Beauty became a distinguishing role for both Fonteyn and the company, but she was also well known for the ballets created by Ashton, including Symphonic Variations, Cinderella, Daphnis and Chloe, Ondine and Sylvia. In 1949, she led the company in a tour of the United States and became an international celebrity. Before and after the Second World War, Fonteyn performed in televised broadcasts of ballet performances in Britain and in the early 1950s appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, consequently increasing the popularity of dance in the United States. In 1955, she married the Panamanian politician Roberto Arias and appeared in a live colour production of The Sleeping Beauty aired on NBC. Three years later, she and Somes danced for the BBC television adaptation of The Nutcracker. Thanks to her international acclaim and many guest artist requests, the Royal Ballet allowed Fonteyn to become a freelance dancer in 1959.
In 1961, when Fonteyn was considering retirement, Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Kirov Ballet while dancing in Paris. Fonteyn, though reluctant to partner with him because of their 19-year age difference, danced with him in his début with the Royal Ballet in Giselle on 21 February 1962. The duo immediately became an international sensation, each dancer pushing the other to their best performances. They were most noted for their classical performances in works such as Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Les Sylphides, La Bayadère, Swan Lake, and Raymonda, in which Nureyev sometimes adapted choreographies specifically to showcase their talents. The pair premièred Ashton's Marguerite and Armand, which had been choreographed specifically for them, and were noted for their performance in the title roles of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. The following year, Fonteyn's husband was shot during an assassination attempt and became a quadriplegic, requiring constant care for the remainder of his life. In 1972, Fonteyn went into semi-retirement, although she continued to dance periodically until the end of the decade. In 1979, she was fêted by the Royal Ballet and officially pronounced the prima ballerina assoluta of the company. She retired to Panama, where she spent her time writing books, raising cattle, and caring for her husband. She died from ovarian cancer exactly 29 years after her premiere with Nureyev in Giselle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Fonteyn
Sheba said
11:47 PM Dec 27, 2021
Thanks Sandy. Another easy one.
sandman55 said
11:04 PM Dec 28, 2021
I know that guy but I will wait to see if someone else wants a turn
Our man was born in Holland and migrated to Australia with his parents. he has been a member of various Australian pop groups.
Is he a well known member of the band ?
Or is he just a band member ?
Little River Band, Sherbet, Masters Apprentices, Easybeats, The Twighlights, and the list goes on..
Your sooo close. He is not the lead singer and he is the one with curly (sometimes wavy) hair in one of the bands you mentioned.
With thanks to searching bands and lots of pics on google, I think I have narrowed it all the way down to Beeb Birtles, LRB
You win the prize
Beeb Birtles it is, we all look a bit different when we are older 
. Over to you for a pic.
Beeb Birtles (born Gerard Bertelkamp, 28 November 1948) is a Dutch Australian musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has been a member of various Australian groups including Zoot (196771), Mississippi (197274), Little River Band (197583), and Birtles Shorrock Goble (200207). He has also worked as a solo artist, including releasing an album, Driven by Dreams (2000). In 2004 Birtles and other members of the classic line-up of Little River Band were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Thanks Sandman
So who is this young spritely person ?
-- Edited by Relax-n on Tuesday 21st of December 2021 09:04:29 PM
EDIT: I'm guessing a cricketer but I have had a look and nothing has come up. I will have another look later.
-- Edited by sandman55 on Wednesday 22nd of December 2021 01:28:50 PM
Yes, he is definitely a cricketer, a well known one at that
He has not been seen on our TV screens for a while, but has made a recent appearance, cos of da cricket..
I thought I posted this last night but maybe I was called for tea
I have never really followed cricket but I imagine there are a few cricket fans out there that would know more than me. Is he an Aussie?
Not an Aussie, he is from overseas
The pic is of the younger player
If the pic was of the older player it would give him away
Wow I think I have found him, Ian Botham. I have heard his name but I know nothing of him.
Thats him Sandman
Thanks Relax-n I expect this game might slow up for the next few days but the show must go on
so who is the little fella in the middle.
A few clues in the post:
.Surf in the background
.Trophies with surfer figures
."little fella"
I'll go for Midget Farrelly, first Australian to win a major surfing title.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midget_Farrelly
I have to finish wrapping Chrissie presents yet. I have to go now.
-- Edited by watsea on Friday 24th of December 2021 09:42:50 PM
-- Edited by watsea on Friday 24th of December 2021 09:43:18 PM
You have got it watsea over to you for a pic.
Bernard "Midget" Farrelly AM (13 September 1944 6 August 2016) was the first world surfing champion.
Farrelly, was the first Australian to win a major surfing title, the 1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships, the unofficial world surfing championship of the day.[1] In 1964 he won the inaugural World Surfing Championship at Manly Beach in Sydney.[2][3][4]
Farrelly was also the first president, in 1961, of Australia's oldest surfboard riders club, Dee Why Surfing Fraternity, which still operates under the same name today.[5] He presented a ten-part television series about surfing in Australia, The Midget Farrelly Surf Show, for the ABC in 1967.[6]
Farrelly was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and into the Surfing Walk of Fame at California's Huntington Beach in 2007.[7] Farrelly died on 6 August 2016, aged 71, from stomach cancer and liver failure.[3][8][9]
Farrelly was posthumously inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midget_Farrelly
I wonder if there will be any bites with this one?
Ron Taylor.
Sheba,
You are correct. It was Ron Taylor. Your turn again.
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
Ron Josiah Taylor, AM (8 March 1934 9 September 2012)[1][2] was a prominent Australian shark expert, as is his widow, Valerie Taylor.[1][3] They were credited with being pioneers in several areas, including being the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage. Their expertise has been called upon for films such as Jaws, Orca and Sky Pirates.
8 March 1934
underwater still photographer and cinematographer
Contents
BiographyEdit
Ron Taylor began diving in 1952 and became interested in spearfishing and underwater photography.[4] He met Valerie while both were members of the St George Spearfishing Club in Sydney. They became champion spearfishers, but switched from killing sharks to filming them after becoming fascinated with marine life. They married in December 1963.[3] They made their living in the 1960s by making wet suits and selling underwater cameras, plus doing artwork for magazines.
Taylor won the Australian Open Spearfishing Championships for four years in succession before winning the World Spearfishing Championship in Tahiti in 1965.[4][5][6]
Taylor's first major underwater film production, The Shark Hunters (1962), was made with diving and business partner Ben Cropp.[4][7] In 1964, he made the Slaughter at Saumarez, the first Australian diving adventure to the Coral Sea aboard professional fishing boat Riversong with free divers John Harding, Bob Grounds and Ron Zangari with Captain Wally Muller.
In 1966, the Taylors sold their shark documentary Revenge of a Shark Victimto producer Robert Raymond who won a Logie Award for his adaptation with new footage.
The Taylors were employed by the Belgian Scientific Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef as advisers and 35 mm underwater cinematographers, for six months, the first major educational project of this type on the Great Barrier Reef sponsored by University of Liège, Belgium. In 1969, Ron co-filmed Blue Water, White Death with Stan Waterman, Peter Lake and Peter Gimbel.[8]
In 1974, the Taylors, assisted by Rodney Fox (above water), filmed the live shark underwater sequences for Jaws.[4] They also filmed the live shark underwater sequences for Jaws 2 (1978)[9] and the shark sequences for the film Orca (1976).[10] In 1978, they published Great Shark Stories book.[9]
Taylor first devised an idea of a diver wearing a full-length chain-mail suit over a wet suit as possible protection against shark bite in the 1960s but it was more than a decade before the suit was made and tested but it was found the suit was too small for Ron so Valerie wore it to test it with sharks.[4]
In 1979, the Taylors filmed the underwater scenes for, The Blue Lagoon. While on a dive trip in 1981, the Taylors discovered mining claims on several Coral Sea Islands. They brought this to the attention of the Australian Federal Government and saved these remote bird breeding islands.
Wreck of the Yongala, a TV documentary, was made in 1982, showcasing what was then the most spectacular of shipwrecks in shallow water. It was instrumental in having the wreck protected from fishing.[4] The Taylors, inspired by Cairns game fishing charter boat captain Peter Bristow, lobbied via the media, the Queensland Government and National Parks to have the potato cod of Cormorant Pass near Lizard Island protected.
They were the first people to film great white sharks without the protection of a cage or anything else during the making of the series Blue Wilderness, Episode, Shark Shocker in January 1992, a huge milestone in ocean exploration together with South Africans Theo Ferreira, Craig Ferreira, George Askew and Piet van der Walt, founders of the South African great white shark cage diving industry. They tested an electronic shark-repelling barrier there. They were also the first to film sharks by night.[11]Shadow over the Reef (1993) was filmed at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia and was instrumental in preventing the test drilling for oil inside the Ningaloo Marine Park. The Taylors' documentary Shark Pod (1997) used the Protective Oceanic Deviceinvented in South Africa by Norman Starkey of the Natal Sharks Board against great white sharks, tiger sharks, hammerhead sharks, and other shark species.
Taylor died on 9 September 2012 at age 78, following a two-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia.[12]
The Realm of the Shark is a biographical account of the Taylors' lives between the late 1950s, and the late 1980s.
Thanks Ted. Try this one.
Definitely is. Who is next ?
Rodney Sturt Taylor was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Time Machine, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Birds, and Inglourious Basterds.
I can do another one.
Who is this gutsy lady?
Nancy Wake?
You are correct that pic is of Nancy Wake.
A brief bio, courtesy of naa.gov.au:
Nancy Wake (19122011), aka 'Madame Andrée' and codenamed 'White Mouse' and 'Witch', was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II. She is famed for her courageous undercover activities in occupied France from 1940 to 1943, first as a courier of a French Resistance network and later with an escape network until it was betrayed. In December 1943 she left France and reached Britain where she joined the British Special Operations Executive, working with the Maquis resistance fighters from 1944 to 1945.
Having earlier witnessed the brutality of the Nazi regime as a journalist, Wake joined the French Resistance in 1940 and risked her life in a network helping Jewish people and Allied servicemen to escape. Wake's network was very successful, and the Gestapo codenamed her 'White Mouse'. She was ordered to flee France in 1943 when the network was betrayed. Her husband, French industrialist Henri Fiocca, remained behind. He was killed by the Gestapo.
Parachuted back into France in April 1944, Wake helped organise and fought alongside the Maquis resistance fighters before and after the D-day invasion. Using the alias 'Madame Andrée' and the codename 'Witch', she participated in the sabotage of German installations, organised parachute supply drops and maintained radio contact with the Special Operations Executive. When the radio codes were lost, Wake cycled about 500 kilometres in 72 hours to organise replacement codes.
Wake's view of her wartime exploits was that she was glad she was there and did what she did. Wake hated war but believed that if it came, she, like other women, needed to play an active part. She commented, 'I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas'. She is known to have killed a German sentry to prevent him raising the alarm during a sabotage raid.
Wake was decorated by France, Britain and the United States but official recognition in Australia, the country of her youth, was very slow in coming. After the war she was awarded the George Medal, the French Croix de Guerre with two Palms, the US Medal for Freedom with Palm and the French Medaille de la Resistance. In 1988 she was awarded the French Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and, in 2004, she was finally appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.
After the war, Wake worked as a clerk for the British in France and then returned to Australia in 1948. In 1949 and 1951 she stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Party candidate for the federal parliamentary seat of Barton and narrowly lost to HV Evatt. In 1951, she left Australia for Britain where she remarried in 1957. Returning to Australia with her husband in 1960, Wake again stood for parliament in 1966 without success. After the death of her husband, she returned to London to live in 2001.
Thanks watsea, now who is the lady in this pic
Dame Margo Fonteyn.
Well done Sheba and no clues, over to you for a pic.
Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE (née Hookham; 18 May 1919 21 February 1991), known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company), eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II. Beginning ballet lessons at the age of four, she studied in England and China, where her father was transferred for his work. Her training in Shanghai was with George Goncharov, contributing to her continuing interest in Russian ballet. Returning to London at the age of 14, she was invited to join the Vic-Wells Ballet School by Ninette de Valois. She succeeded Alicia Markova as prima ballerina of the company in 1935. The Vic-Wells choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, wrote numerous parts for Fonteyn and her partner, Robert Helpmann, with whom she danced from the 1930s to the 1940s.
In 1946, the company, now renamed the Sadler's Wells Ballet, moved into the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden where Fonteyn's most frequent partner throughout the next decade was Michael Somes. Her performance in Tchaikovskys The Sleeping Beauty became a distinguishing role for both Fonteyn and the company, but she was also well known for the ballets created by Ashton, including Symphonic Variations, Cinderella, Daphnis and Chloe, Ondine and Sylvia. In 1949, she led the company in a tour of the United States and became an international celebrity. Before and after the Second World War, Fonteyn performed in televised broadcasts of ballet performances in Britain and in the early 1950s appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, consequently increasing the popularity of dance in the United States. In 1955, she married the Panamanian politician Roberto Arias and appeared in a live colour production of The Sleeping Beauty aired on NBC. Three years later, she and Somes danced for the BBC television adaptation of The Nutcracker. Thanks to her international acclaim and many guest artist requests, the Royal Ballet allowed Fonteyn to become a freelance dancer in 1959.
In 1961, when Fonteyn was considering retirement, Rudolf Nureyev defected from the Kirov Ballet while dancing in Paris. Fonteyn, though reluctant to partner with him because of their 19-year age difference, danced with him in his début with the Royal Ballet in Giselle on 21 February 1962. The duo immediately became an international sensation, each dancer pushing the other to their best performances. They were most noted for their classical performances in works such as Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Les Sylphides, La Bayadère, Swan Lake, and Raymonda, in which Nureyev sometimes adapted choreographies specifically to showcase their talents. The pair premièred Ashton's Marguerite and Armand, which had been choreographed specifically for them, and were noted for their performance in the title roles of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. The following year, Fonteyn's husband was shot during an assassination attempt and became a quadriplegic, requiring constant care for the remainder of his life. In 1972, Fonteyn went into semi-retirement, although she continued to dance periodically until the end of the decade. In 1979, she was fêted by the Royal Ballet and officially pronounced the prima ballerina assoluta of the company. She retired to Panama, where she spent her time writing books, raising cattle, and caring for her husband. She died from ovarian cancer exactly 29 years after her premiere with Nureyev in Giselle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Fonteyn
Thanks Sandy. Another easy one.
I know that guy but I will wait to see if someone else wants a turn