Darien Angadi
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Darien Robert Kabir Angadi (19 March 1949 – 5 December 1981) was an English singer and actor.
Biography
Darien Angadi was the son of painter and novelist
Trotskyist.[1]
He was born in
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir,[2] and songs by Schubert and Schumann.[3] He sang with the Finchley Children's Music Group and then the London Boy Singers
.
After his voice broke he turned to acting, achieving success on the stage and in television drama productions, including I, Claudius and Blake's 7.[4] From 1968 until 1971 he was a Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Irene Lenihan in 1977.[citation needed] He starred in the Horizon episode of the science fiction series Blake's 7.[5]
Angadi hanged himself in 1981.[6][7] His story was told during a BBC Four documentary on the schools' quiz programme Television Top of the Form on 17 April 2006.[citation needed][8]
References
- ^ a b "Obituary of Patricia Angadi". The Guardian. 17 July 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ Argo Records 1961
- ^ EMI Records, 7 EG 8873, 1964
- ^ "Darien Angadi". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018.
- ^ "Blake's 7 : Horizon (1979) - Jonathan Wright-Miller | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
- ^ "BFI Film & TV Database". Archived from the original on 19 January 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ The date of 1981 is supported by the obituary of his mother in The Guardian, and ancestry.co.uk gives his date of death as 5 December 1981 – supported by a photocopy of his entry in the National Probate Calendar
- ^ "Schedule - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
External links
- Darien Angadi at IMDb
- Darien Angadi Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine at Shakespeare in Performance Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine