Albert GUERISSE (1911-1989)

This Is Your Life Big Red Book
  • The first subject whose story is told over two consecutive editions of This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition Nos: 235 / 236
  • Subject No: 236
  • Broadcast date: Thu 28 Nov 1963
  • Broadcast date: Thu 5 Dec 1963
  • Broadcast time: 9.10-9.35pm
  • Recorded: Mon 4 Nov 1963 8.00pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 9
  • Editions: 9 - 10

on the guest list...

  • Jack de Brabant
  • John O'Neill
  • Commander Painter DSC, RN
  • Geoffrey Robinson
  • Alex Wattebled, Legion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre, Ordre Leopold II, MBE
  • 8 ex-RAF escapees
  • Robert Leycuras, Croix de Guerre with Palm & 2 stars, MBE
  • Colonel James Langley, MBE, MC, Croix de Guerre
  • Madame Guerisse – mother
  • Fabien de Cortes, MM, Croix de Guerre
  • Bob Sheppard
  • Arthur Haulot
  • Madame Sylvia Guerisse
  • Patrick Guerisse Jnr
  • Marcel Herlin, Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold II with Palm, Croix de Guerre with Palm
  • Louis Nouveau, GM Officier de la Legion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre – World War I, Croix de Guerre – World War II
  • Ian Garrow
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Tom Groome

production team...

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Timeline

the show's fifty year history

This Is Your Life Big Red Book

Series 9 subjects

Stratford Johns | Alice Stern | Robert Boothby | Bessie Love | Joan Stanton | Harry Worth | John Dodd | Ralph Reader
Albert Guerisse | Margaret Lockwood | Franklin Day | Frederick Spencer Chapman | Thora Hird | Evelyn Bark
Madge Watson and Elsie Wood | Petula Clark | Derek McCulloch | Bert Matthews | Ted Moult | Dot Palmer | Teddy Winn
Barbara Mullen | Paul Burrough | Sydney Scroggie | Ninette de Valois | Dominique Pire | Olivia de Havilland | Mary Hawkins