Diana Payne-Myers in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley, P.W. Productions on tour 2018/19.Directed by Stephen Daldry.Designed by Ian MacNeil.Lighting by Rick Fisher.Associate Director Julian Webber..Photo by Mark Douet.
AN extraordinary former Polam Hall School pupil, who supported Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Max Miller and Morecambe and Wise, has died at the age of 92.
Diana Payne-Myers, who was born in Darlington in 1928, was dancing until the end – she spent her 91st birthday on Broadway appearing in An Inspector Calls. She even did a cartwheel and the splits on stage in her late eighties – although she admitted for the latter that “I’m cheating a little”.