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3 unusual facts about Fyfe Robertson


Fyfe Robertson

He married Elizabeth (Betty) Smith in 1928 and the couple had two daughters, Elizabeth, a singer and conductor, and Grace, a well known photographer.

In 1943 Robertson joined Picture Post magazine where he was picture editor and feature writer.

In 1986 he experienced a heart attack shortly after appearing as a guest on This is Your Life for Cliff Michelmore.


Picture Post

Staff writers included MacDonald Hastings, Lorna Hay, Sydney Jacobson, J.B. Priestley, Lionel Birch, James Cameron, Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott-James, Robert Kee, and Bert Lloyd; many notable freelancer writers contributed, as well, including George Bernard Shaw, Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan.


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