Darien Angadi

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Darien Robert Kabir Angadi (19 March 1949 - 5 December 1981) was an English actor.

Darien was the son of painter and novelist Patricia Angadi (née Patricia Clare Fell-Clarke), (who introduced George Harrison of the Beatles to Ravi Shankar) and Ayana Angadi, an impecunious Indian writer, intellectual and Trotskyist.^[1] Darien was born in Stoke Newington, and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School where he was a prolific performer in school plays. In 1965 whilst at the school, he was a member of the school team for BBC Television's Television Top of the Form. He achieved some fame as a boy treble, recording Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde with the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir,^[2] and songs by Schubert and Schumann.^[3] He sang with the Finchley Children's Music Group and then the London Boy Singers. After his voice broke he turned to acting, achieving success on the stage and in television drama productions, including I, Claudius and Blake's 7. He married Irene Lenihan in 1977.

Angadi committed suicide by hanging.^[4] (The year of his death is widely reported as another date, but 1981 is supported by the obituary of his mother in the Guardian.) His story was told during a BBC Four documentary on the schools' quiz programme Television Top of the Form on 17 April 2006.

References

↑ "Obituary of Patricia Angadi". The Guardian. 17 July 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
↑ Argo Records 1961
↑ EMI Records, 7 EG 8873, 1964
↑ "BFI Film & TV Database". Retrieved 3 April 2013.

External links

Darien Angadi at the Internet Movie Database
Darien Angadi at Shakespeare in Performance

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Name	Angadi, Darien
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Short description	British actor
Date of birth	19 March 1949
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Date of death	5 December 1981
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