Slim De Grey


Clifford Frank de Grey, better known as Slim De Grey was an English-Australian actor, compere, musician, lyricist/composer and comedian.
He served with the Australian Army during World War Two, seeing action in the Malayan campaign with the 2/10th Field Ambulance, part of the 8th Division of the Second Australian Imperial Force. He became a POW at the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and was imprisoned in Changi Prison until the end of the war. While at Changi he composed, presented and produced shows.
Roles included Young Ramsay, Bellamy, Newsfront and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. He died in a Gold Coast Hospital in 2007, aged 88, from heart issues. He was married to Christina de Grey and had two sons; Calvin, an actor and Darrell. He was inducted in into the Hall of Fame of the Mo Awards.

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