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7 unusual facts about This Is Your Life


Carole Lynne

She made her last television appearance in 1994 on an episode of This Is Your Life, which was featuring actress Pat Kirkwood.

Claire Phillips

Phillips was later a guest on the television series This Is Your Life.

Eamonn Andrews Studios

Eamonn Andrews Studios was founded by broadcaster Eamonn Andrews, famous for being the presenter with the big red book of This Is Your Life, a British television programme.

Geoffrey Burridge

He died in London from an AIDS-related illness in 1987, leaving behind a boyfriend, the actor Alec McCowen, who refused to appear on This Is Your Life unless the relationship was acknowledged.

Jean Boht

In 1989, she was the subject of This Is Your Life, and in 2008 she made a guest appearance in BBC daytime TV soap, Doctors.

Laurie Johnson

From the 1960s to the 1980s, he composed over fifty themes and scores, including the theme used on This Is Your Life (entitled "Gala Performance") (1952), The Avengers (from 1965), Animal Magic (entitled "Las Vegas") (1962), Jason King (1971), The New Avengers (1976) and The Professionals (1977).

Sue Jenkins

Sue was voted 'Woman of the Year' in 2008 for her Charity work and was honoured by This Is Your Life in 2001.


Arnold Ridley

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at London’s Marylebone Station.

Bob Paisley

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1977 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews on board a coach in central London.

Brigit Forsyth

Brigit Forsyth was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2002 when she was surprised by Michael Aspel at Broadcasting House.

Canon Noel Duckworth

He was the subject of This Is Your Life on 12 January 1959 when, taken to the BBC Television Theatre by his friend the rowing commentator John Snagge, he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

Erzsébet Földi

On November 26, 1993, she appeared on an episode of NBC's This Is Your Life featuring Roy Scheider.

Fred Housego

Apart from Mastermind, television appearances by Fred Housego include Blankety Blank, The Pyramid Game, History On Your Doorstep, The Six O'Clock Show (on which he was a presenter) and This is Your Life.

Fyfe Robertson

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

G. H. Elliott

He made several appearances in television variety shows and was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, London.

Jack Petersen

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Memorial Hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

Joe Loss

He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions: in May 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews, and again in October 1980, when Andrews surprised him at London’s Portman Hotel during a star-studded party to celebrate Joe’s 50 years in show business.

John Leeson

Tom Baker detested the character of K-9, but luckily got on very well with Leeson (when Leeson appeared on Tom Baker's edition of This Is Your Life in 2000, Leeson entered on all fours).

John McArdle

John was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2003 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel on the set of Merseybeat.

John Motson

Motson was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1996 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel during a charity cheque presentation at the Bayswater Families Centre in London.

Kathy Staff

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1984 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in Harrods.

Koko Kondo

In 1955, both appeared on the popular television program This Is Your Life where they were placed in the uncomfortable position of meeting with Captain Robert A. Lewis, copilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Lavinia Warner

After studying history and psychology at university, Warner became a PA in the drama department at LWT, before moving on to Thames Television as a researcher, mainly on This is Your Life.

Louie Ramsay

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1958 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh.

Robert Stanford Tuck

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1956 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.

Roy M. Davenport

In 1954, the popular television program, This Is Your Life with host Ralph Edwards, recounted his wartime events with close family appearing with him.

Russ Conway

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1959, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews during a recording session at the BBC's Studio 1 at 201 Piccadilly, London.

Stephen Behan

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in December 1962 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the audience of Dublin’s RTE Studios.

Tubby Clayton

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1958 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.

Uffa Fox

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in January 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Colston Hall in Bristol.


see also

Hirokazu Koreeda

"This is your life: Tony Rayns interviews After Life's director Koreeda Hirokazu" Sight & Sound, March 1999.