Brian Rix

Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, CBE, DL is an English actor and campaigner.

Rix was born in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, the youngest of four children. His father, Herbert Rix, and Herberts two brothers, ran the shipping company in Kingston upon Hull, founded by his grandfather Robert Rix. As a good Yorkshireman, Brian, who was a talented cricketer, only wanted to play for the Yorkshire County Cricket Club in his childhood, but when he was being educated at Bootham School, York his ambitions changed. He did play for Hull CC when he was, the Stage and the Lords Taverners but during his school days his sister Sheila became an actress and Brian developed the same ambition to go on the stage. All four Rix children had become interested in the theatre because of their mother, Fanny, who ran an amateur dramatic society and was the lead soprano in the local operatic society. All her children performed in the plays and two of them, Brian and Sheila, became professional actors. Sheila Mercier, as she was known, went on to play Annie Sugden foryears

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