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Hugh Hastings

Hugh Hastings

Actor, Writer

Born January 31, 1917 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Died November 26, 2004

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Actor and playwright Hugh Hastings wrote one of the British theatre's most successful post-war comedies, Seagulls Over Sorrento, which opened in London in 1950 and ran for 1551 performances. The play subsequently became staple fare for repertory companies throughout the world and was filmed in 1954 with Gene Kelly in the leading role.

Seagulls Over Sorrento was a British service comedy that had an all-male cast. Five naval ratings volunteer for a special posting on a naval experimental base on a remote island off Scapa Flow. The work of the base is so secret that they themselves are not told what it is, but they are warned that it is highly dangerous.

The London impresario Binkie Beaumont staged the original play and cast the production himself. The cockney actor Ronald Shiner played the lead alongside Bernard Lee, William Hartnell, Nigel Stock, John Gregson and David Langton. A Broadway production opened in 1955 with Rod Steiger and Leslie Neilson and in the same year a young Harold Pinter appeared in a repertory production in Colchester. John Osborne recalled in his autobiography that he wrote Look Back In Anger while appearing on Morecambe Pier in Seagulls Over Sorrento in 1955.

Hastings wrote several other plays and a less than successful musical version of Seagulls Over Sorrento entitled Scapa! (1962) and in the early 1970s teamed up with Dad's Army actor Bill Pertwee to appear in cabaret.

For several years Hastings had been cast as one of the back row platoon in BBC's Dad's Army.

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Dad's Army Poster

Dad's Army Feature Film1971Platoon

Dad's Army Poster

Dad's Army TV Series1968Private Hastings

Glory at Sea Poster

Glory at Sea Feature Film1952Naval Rating

Writer

10

Type

Year

Måsar över Sorrento TV Movie1962

Seagulls Over Sorrento TV Movie1960

Saturday Playhouse TV Series1958

H.M. Tennent Globe Theatre TV Series1956

Möwen über Sorrent TV Movie1956

ITV Play of the Week Poster

ITV Play of the Week TV Series1955

Crest of the Wave Poster

Crest of the Wave Feature Film1954

Seagulls Over Sorrento TV Movie1953

Glory at Sea Poster

Glory at Sea Feature Film1952

It Started in Paradise Poster

It Started in Paradise Feature Film1952

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