on to make many stage appearances including 20 months in the original London production of Teahouse of the August Moon, followed by When in Rome, Stand by your Bedouin and And the Bridge Makes Three. He also made many working trips abroad to the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong and the Netherlands. Other Henderson appeared in eight Royal Command Performances. A keen golfer, Henderson enjoyed most sports. He was a leading Water Rat and was awarded the OBE, in recognition of his charitable work. Family He married Dixie Ross, a member of the three Ross Sisters, whose act combined singing, acrobatics and contortionism; at the time of their marriage she used the name Veda, taken from that of her sister. They had a son and a daughter. After the death of his first wife from a barbiturate overdose in 1963, he remarried in 1965, to Gwynneth Wycherley. Dickie Henderson died in Essex from pancreatic cancer on 22 September 1985, aged 62. Filmography References External links BFI Screenonline: The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour (1958-59) 1922 births 1985 deaths Deaths from cancer in England Deaths from pancreatic cancer English entertainers English male child actors English male stage actors English male film actors English male television actors Male actors from London 20th-century English male actors Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century English comedians British Army personnel of World War II