Beryl Frances Vertue was an English television producer, media executive, and agent.
16 Facts About Beryl Vertue
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Beryl Vertue was founder and chairman of the independent television production company Hartswood Films.
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Beryl Vertue attended Mitcham county school, and left at 15 to take a typing course.
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Beryl Vertue began her working life as a secretary in a shipping firm, and remained here for six years until she contracted tuberculosis.
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Beryl Vertue was sent to a sanatorium on the Isle of Wight.
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Beryl Vertue was reluctant to work there, as it was an hour-long commute from her home.
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Beryl Vertue asked for what she thought would be a prohibitive sum of ten pounds a week, and to her horror they agreed.
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Beryl Vertue started by typing up Spike Milligan's scripts for The Goon Show.
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Beryl Vertue managed to negotiate a doubling of their income for Hancock's Half Hour.
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Beryl Vertue represented comedians Tony Hancock and Frankie Howerd.
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Beryl Vertue managed to dissuade him, and got him a booking at the Blue Angel, a London nightclub, which revived his career.
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In 1967, Beryl Vertue was invited by Robert Stigwood to join his company, which had absorbed ALS, and became deputy chairman.
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Beryl Vertue promised they would take good care of Tina, and then thanked him before he had had a chance to consent.
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Beryl Vertue served as executive producer of their dramatic series Sherlock, which Moffat co-created.
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Beryl Vertue was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to television and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to television drama.
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Beryl Vertue was conferred a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards on 20 March 2012.