for 826 twice-nightly performances from December 1960 until an emotional farewell on 19 May 1962". Later years In 1963 Gray played Senex in the first London production of Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Reviewing the show in The Observer, Bamber Gascoigne wrote that the piece had roles for five comics: Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Jon Pertwee, Robertson Hare and Gray. "All are good, but the highest laurels must go to Eddie Gray and Frankie Howerd for a wonderful quality of detachment. They both make a comic routine 10 times funnier by plodding through it as though it occupies only one-fifth of their attention." Gray never retired. He made his last stage appearance in September 1969, in an impromptu guest appearance in Elsie and Doris Waters' show at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre. He died three days later, on 15 September 1969, at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, at the age of 71. Partial filmography First a Girl (1935) - Goose Trainer Skylarks (1936) - Monsewer Eddie Gray Keep Smiling (1938) - Silvo Don Chicago (1945) - Police Constable Gray Life Is a Circus (1960) - Eddie The Fast Lady (1962) - 2nd Golfer Notes 1898 births 1969 deaths Male actors from London English male stage actors Jugglers Music hall performers People from Pimlico