Alec Guinness at the Winter Garden Theatre in London, reprised in a 1966 film version in which he also appeared. He also turned up sporadically on television, notably in Alan Melville's series Before the Fringe in the 1960s when he sang, or rather recited, some of the old revue songs. Later years Byng never really retired from the stage and was working in his late eighties. His career was revived when he made a guest appearance on the BBC's Parkinson show in 1977 with Carol Channing. In the last years of his life he briefly teamed up with another veteran variety artiste, Billy Milton, in the touring revue Those Thirties Memories, directed by Patrick Newley. He made his last appearance in 1987 in a one-man show at the National Theatre in London at the age of 93. He also wrote an autobiography, As You Were (1970). He features prominently in Patrick Newley's autobiographical memoir The Krays and Bette Davis (2005). Byng finally moved to Denville Hall, the Actors' Charitable Trust home in Northwood, Middlesex, England. He composed his own epitaph: So here you are, old Douglas, a derelict at last.Before your eyes what visions rise of your vermilion past.Mad revelry beneath the stars, hot clasping by the lake.You need not sigh, you can't deny, you've had your bit of cake. He died on 24 August 1987 aged 94. His ashes were scattered outside his former home in Arundel Terrace, Brighton. A Brighton bus is named after him. Notes References Massingberd, Hugh. The very best of The Daily Telegraph Obituaries, p. 20, Pan, 2001. Morley, Sheridan. The Great Stage Stars, Angus & Robertson, London, 1986. . 1893 births 1987 deaths English male comedians Gay comedians Gay singers Gay songwriters English gay musicians English LGBT singers English LGBT songwriters Music hall performers People from Nottingham Pantomime dames 20th-century English comedians 20th-century English male singers 19th-century LGBT people 20th-century LGBT people British LGBT comedians