Jackie Skarvellis

Jackie Skarvellis was born in Cardiff on 28^th December 1942 and died in London on 19^th October 2016, aged 73.She went to Clive Hall School, Cardiff and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

She appeared in Oh Calcutta! and Let My People Come in the West End and on numerous tours, including Lindsay Anderson’s The Cherry Orchard and The Guardsman. She also appeared in several cult horror films directed by Andy Milligan in the late 1960s, including The Body Beneath and The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here! She also had numerous TV credits to her name, including Doctor Who, Casualty and Birds of a Feather. Well known on the London fringe, her many plays include Everyone Wants to be Bette Davis, Eat Your Heart Out Joan Crawford, Carry On Brighton, Still Waters and James Dean is Dead, Long Live James Dean.

She will be much missed.

Plays authored

Carry On Brighton

Past productions

Director, Carry On Brighton, Pentameters Theatre 6^th – 25^th September 2011, Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead, London.
The Usherette, The Guardsman, Paddy Wilson 29^th August – 28^th October 2000, Theatre Royal, Bath, Albery Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London, and other locations.
Reform Reform Reform the UN, Council for Education in World Citizenship started 3^rd May 2000, Council for Education in World Citizenship, London.
Pagan Woman, Yerma, Sorted Productions and Wandsworth Arts Festival 3^rd – 21^st November 1998, Bridge Lane Theatre, London.
[understudy: Dorothy Tutin, Susan Engel], Other Places, Duncan C Weldon with Paul Gregg & Lionel Becker for Triumph Apollo Productions Ltd and Peter Clay and John Wilbraham for Court Productions Ltd 7^th March – 22^nd June 1985, Duchess Theatre, London.
party guest / servant, The Cherry Orchard, Duncan C Weldon with Paul Gregg and Lionel Becker for Triumph Apollo Productions and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 3^rd August – 19^th November 1983, Theatre Royal, Bath, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, and other locations.
standby, Dear Liar, Jimmy Wax and Windsor Theatre Company 22^nd February – 12^th June 1982, Theatre Royal, Windsor, Richmond Theatre, London, and other locations.
Doctor, The F. & H. Play, Artaud Theatre Company 7^th – 12^th November 1978, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
Snatch 69, Paul Raymond 12^th May – 9^th August 1975, Whitehall Theatre, London (now Trafalgar Theatre, London).

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