This Is Your Life: Ben Fuller

Ben FULLER

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Ben Fuller, stage door keeper, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews while posing for publicity photographs at the Whitehall Theatre in central London.

Charles Henry Fuller, nicknamed Ben, joined the training ship HMS Minotaur after running away to sea aged 14 in 1895. Having become a fireman with the London Salvage Corps in 1910, he worked his way up to Station Officer and later Chief before retiring in 1934.

At the age of 51, Ben became the stage door keeper at the Windmill Theatre, a variety and revue theatre in Great Windmill Street, London, famous for its nude tableaux vivants. He was still working a 12-hour day, six days a week, at the age of 79.

programme details...

Edition No: 202
Subject No: 203
Broadcast date: Tue 13 Nov 1962
Broadcast time: 7.55-8.25pm
Recorded: Mon 1 Oct 1962
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 8
Edition: 7

on the guest list...

Muriel Joynes
John Evans
Bob Dobbing
Sid Jones
Eric Barker
Pearl Hackney
Lesley Osmond
dancers from the Windmill Theatre
Kenneth More
Joan Kenny
Sheila van Damm

production team...

Researcher: unknown
Writer: unknown
Director: Vere Lorrimer
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

with thanks to David Rose and Maurice Poole for their contributions to this page

related pages...

Backstage Life

raising the curtain

Kenneth More

Photographs of Ben Fuller This Is Your Life

Series 8 subjects