Sydney Lipton was born on December 14, 1905. He was an actor, known for Let's Make a Night of It (1937) and Looks Familiar (1970). He died on July 19, 1995.
Popular British dance band leader, trained as a classical violinist. He began his career as a sideman with the orchestras of Billy Cotton and Ambrose. Lipton organised his own band after 1931, based at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London (resident there until 1967). The band made prolific recordings (primarily for Decca and Columbia) and regularly broadcast for BBC radio from 1933.
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From 1941 to 1946, he served with the Royal Artillery and Royal Signals Corps, rising to the rank of captain.
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