Record ID:
35873377 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Birth:
  • 19321002
  • Mittagong (N.S.W.)
Death:
  • 20210523
  • Gold Coast (Qld.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Fields of activity:
  • Performing arts
Occupations:
  • Singers Lyricists Actors
Used for:
  • Hunt, Sheila
  • Gorshenin, Beryl
  • Gorshenin, Lorrae
Notes:
  • Lorrae Desmond interviewed by Bill Stephens, June 5, 1992.
  • Wikipedia website, viewed on 13 June 2019 (Lorrae Desmond, MBE (2 October 1932), born as Beryl Hunt, is an Australian retired Gold Logie-award-winning singer, character actress, television presenter and theatre lyricist, with a career that spanned over 60 years, both locally and internationally. She started her career in England, particularly as a singer and radio/television presenter before returning to Australia where she became a popular actress remains best known to early television audiences as presenter of the self-titled musical variety program The Lorrae Desmond Show from 1960 until 1964, her live singing performances as a forces sweetheart and for her soap opera roles including the Marion Carlton in Number 96 her long-running role as Shirley Gilroy an original character in the television series A Country Practice, from 1981 to 1992, and briefly Home and Away as Isobel Dupre in 1997) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrae_Desmond
  • Sydney Morning Herald from 23 May 2021, viewed on 24 May 2021 (actor Lorrae Desmond, a two-time Logie winning matriarch of Australian showbiz, has died at the age of 91) https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/enormous-heart-lorrae-desmond-logie-winning-star-of-a-country-practice-dead-at-91-20210523-p57udr.html
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)312362
  • 000000878550
  • abv09303252
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc