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2 unusual facts about Sydney Sturgess


Sydney Sturgess

She starred as the Countess of Brocklehurst in the Shaw Festival's production of The Admirable Crighton, appeared in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Manitoba Theatre Center, and played "Mrs. Higgins" in another run of Shaw's Pygmalion at the Nottingham Playhouse in England.

She carried a distinguished Canadian ancestry - her great-grandfather was Edward Palmer, Q.C., of Prince Edward Island, who was also one of the Fathers of Confederation.


Arthur Brough

Others included Andrew Jack: Sydney Sturgess, who went on to marry Barry Morse: and Trevor Bannister, who would later act alongside Brough in Are You Being Served?


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