Hubert Gregg
Playwright, Film actor
1914 – 2004
Who was Hubert Gregg?
Hubert Gregg was a BBC broadcaster, writer and stage actor. At the end of his life he was probably best known for the BBC Radio 2 "oldies" shows A Square Deal and Thanks for the Memory. In an earlier era he had also been a novelist, a theatre director and a hit songwriter.
Born in Islington, London, he worked for the BBC from the 1930s onwards, wrote the wartime hit "I'm Going To Get Lit Up When The Lights Go On in London" in 1943, and on seeing the German Doodlebugs flying over London, composed the song "Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner", which became a hit and London folk anthem in 1947.
Gregg spoke German fluently, and during the war worked for the BBC German service, to such good effect that Goebbels assumed he must be a German traitor.
He was married three times: his first wife was musical comedy star Zoe Gail, with whom he had a daughter, actress-writer Stacey Gregg; his second wife being the actress and singer Pat Kirkwood and finally in 1980 he married Carmel Lytton with whom he had two more children.
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- Born
- Jul 14, 1914
Islington - Also known as
- Hubert Robert Gregg
- Hubert Robert Harry Gregg
- Spouses
- Carmel Lytton
(1980 - 2004/03/29) - Patricia Kirkwood
(1956 - 1979) - Zoe Gail
(1943 - 1950)
- Carmel Lytton
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Islington
- Died
- Mar 30, 2004
Eastbourne
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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