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- Sydney Lipton was born on December 14, 1905. He was an actor, known for Let's Make a Night of It (1937), This Is Your Life (1955) and Looks Familiar (1970). He died on July 19, 1995.
- Father of Celia Lipton.
- From 1941 to 1946, he served with the Royal Artillery and Royal Signals Corps, rising to the rank of captain.
- 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.
- The recordings with his band were made from 1932 through 1941, and the band's radio broadcasts were made at Grosvenor House where the band was in residence.
- His daughter Celia Lipton, who later made a career as an actress and singer, joined his band as vocalist in the 1940s. Other singers who performed with the ensemble included Anona Wynn, Primrose Hayes, Les Allen, and Chips Chippindall.
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