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- Birth nameReginald Moxon Armitage
- Noel Gay was born on July 15, 1898 in Wakefield, England, UK. He was a composer and writer, known for Great West End Theatres (2012), Get Out (2017) and Matchstick Men (2003). He died on March 4, 1954 in London, England, UK.
- In 1987, was posthumously nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Score, his music with lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber, for "Me and My Girl."
- His son Richard Armitage (b. 1928 - d. 1986) was also a showman, as are his grandsons Charles Armitage and Alexander Armitage who is a show-business agent representing media figures such as Jeremy Vine.
- British composer and songwriter, specialising in music hall and operettas, trained at London's Royal College of Music. Born Reginald Moxon Armitage, he allegedly derived his stage name after coming across a 1924 bus sign which read: 'NOEL Coward and Maisie GAY in a new revue'. His song 'Tondelayo', featured in the movie White Cargo (1929), was first to be synchronised with the action in a British sound feature.
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