Memorial Services

[susanduic]

Does anyone with experience of/direct knowledge of Memorial Services for Actors know if either now or in the past it was usual that a representative of The Actors Church Union should be in attendance? Or, does it imply something significant ( or sinister depending on your point of view!)

[Steve Crook]

name='saduic']Does anyone with experience of/direct knowledge of Memorial Services for Actors know if either now or in the past it was usual that a representative of The Actors Church Union should be in attendance? Or, does it imply something significant ( or sinister depending on your point of view!)

The memorial service, as opposed to the actual funeral, is often held at St. Paul's, Covent Garden (the actor's church). It's a lovely place and has plaques all around the walls to commemorate loads of actors of stage and screen.



Was this a particular memorial service you were thinking of?



Steve

[susanduic]

It was a particular service but that wasn't the main point of the question. I read a list of who was in attendance at the Memorial Service (yes, at St Pauls) and wondered if having a rep. of the actors church union implied the actor concerned had god-bothering tendancies......which would have been a BIG surprise not to say shock for me!!!!!!!!!! or whether now on in the past a rep. turned out for everyone.............

[CaptainWaggett]

This article suggests that members of the ACU aren't necessarily churchly types. I hadn't realised that they were the folks who provided the lists of theatrical lodgings that are an essential component of any memoirs of 'good old weekly rep' (as it is inevitably called)

[Steve Crook]

name='saduic']It was a particular service but that wasn't the main point of the question. I read a list of who was in attendance at the Memorial Service (yes, at St Pauls) and wondered if having a rep. of the actors church union implied the actor concerned had god-bothering tendancies......which would have been a BIG surprise not to say shock for me!!!!!!!!!! or whether now on in the past a rep. turned out for everyone.............

Well if it was at St Paul's it doesn't seem very surprising that someone from St Paul's was there



Quite a few people do start reading the bible again on their death bed, it's like they're cramming for their final exam



Steve

[susanduic]

I'll read the article link properly-thanks Captain..............and Steve, well the death-bed humour does mitigate some of my anxieties!

I wonder if anyone knows though...........