Terry Hall (ventriloquist) "Crackerjack" and "3-2-1". From 1977 to 1980, Hall regularly appeared in the educational television programme "Reading With Lenny". He wrote the "Kevin the Kitten" series of children's reading books which accompanied the series. Hall married twice. He had two daughters from his first marriage. He married a second time in 1980, to dance teacher Denise Francis. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease in later life, and died in 2007 in Coventry aged 80. Dr Harry Brünjes, a long-standing family friend, gave the eulogy at the service. Terry Hall (ventriloquist) Terence "Terry" Hall (20 November 1926 – 3 April 2007) was an
Eagle-Lion Films studios were sold off. Eagle-Lion had acquired the film studio of Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) which had acquired the building from Grand National Pictures which ceased operations in 1939. In 1954 Frederick Ziv bought the studio for his Ziv Television Programs. While the production company was ultimately unsuccessful, Arthur Krim's experience working at it was invaluable in helping re-establish United Artists as an industry powerhouse in the coming decades. Eagle-Lion Films Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States. In 1947 it acquired Robert R. Young's