Roy Rene

Roy Rene; born as Henry " Harry " van de Sluys, (* February 15, 1891 in Adelaide, Australia, † November 22, 1954 in Sydney, Australia) was an Australian comedian.

Life

The son of a Dutch- Jewish immigrant as a child took part in various drama competitions for amateurs in Adelaide and entered 1905 in the production of Sinbad the Sailor at the Royal Theatre. With Ivy Scott, he sang as a boy soprano with black-colored face at the Tivoli Theatre. After the family moved to Melbourne, he joined in 1908 as a singer Boy Roy, James Brennan's vaudeville at the Gaiety Theatre on.

In 1910 he received a minor role in JC Williamson's melodrama The Whip and came to Sydney with the troops. During this time, after he named Rene - after a French clown - at. From 1914 he worked for Ben Fuller. His duet with Nat Phillips Stiffy And Mo was a resounding success. Stiffy and Mo were ten years in Australia and New Zealand to sold-out houses. 1927 originated with Parlophone some recordings of the comedy duo.

After the separation of Phillips 1928 Rene at Fuller 's Theatre worked with the own group Mo and his Merrymakers on. In 1929 he married the actress and soubrette Sadie Gale. After a collapse with a pleurisy during an appearance in Frank Neil's revue Clowns in Clover, he joined in mid 1930 for Hugh McIntosh at the Tivoli Theatre on in the Revue Pot Luck. 1931 brought him Mike Connors and Queenie Paul at the New Tivoli in Melbourne. In 1934 he appeared in the Revue Rhapsodies of 1935 Ernest C. Rolls ' Apollo Palace Theatre. In the same year Ken G. Hall turned with him the feature film Strike Me Lucky.

Since the late 1930s, Rene also worked for radio. In the 1940s lift at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the series The Misadventures of Mo, followed Calling the Stars and ( over five years) McCackie Mansion. He had his last stage appearance in 1949 in McCackie ' Mo'ments Harry Wren's Kings Theatre in Melbourne. His autobiography Mo's Memoirs appeared 1945.