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Brian Stow Crossley (5 October 1926 – 8 September 2012) was an English-born Australian actor and director. BiographyHe was born in Shipley in Yorkshire to engineering draughtsman Harry Crossley and Minnie Stow. He attended Birmingham College of Speech and Drama and performed as part of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and in 1950 was invited to join the chorus for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, playing a variety of small roles. In 1952 he played in Gay's the Word on the West End, but in 1954 he moved to Melbourne to join the Union Theatre Repertory Company. He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1956 with the J.C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, but with the arrival of television he turned his attention to the screen.[1] He appeared in a variety of television programs, including Homicide, Division 4 and Consider Your Verdict, as well as directing for The Box. His most successful role was on children's series Adventure Island, where he played Mrs Flower Potts from 1967 to 1972. During this period he also directed for the stage; his first directing project was Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for the Victorian State Opera; he subsequently directed Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Domenico Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage and Franz Joseph Haydn's L'infedeltà delusa and collaborated extensively with Dennis Olsen. He directed a wide variety of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and in 1973 was appointed a director of the National Theatre's Opera School. He moved to the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Queensland around 1982.[1] Crossley died in Melbourne in September 2012.[1] References1. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/love-of-music-propelled-long-stage-career-20121019-27x8m.html|title=Brian Crossley, 1926-2012|last=Sinclair|first=Marion|newspaper=The Age|date=20 October 2012}} External links
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