From the first luncheon in 1951 our luncheon guests have been
(elevation to the peerage mainly took place after their
appearance at our theatre luncheons,
you may draw your own conclusions)
1996 Eleanor Bron
1994 Christopher Timothy
1992 Margaret Courtenay & Richard Alton
1990 Dora Bryan
1988 John Castle & Barry Stanton
1984 Peter Sallis
1983 Fenella Fielding
1982 Patrick Cargill & Moira Lister
1981 Anthony Quale
1980 Bernard Hepton
1979 Anna Neagle
1975 Richard O'Sullivan & Yootha Joyce & Sally Thomsett
1974 Fulton Mackay & Sebastian Graham-Jones
1973 Prunella Scales & Griffith Jones (again)
1973 Ken Dodd & Billy Whittacker
1972 Leslie Crowther & Dilys Watling
1972 John Gielgud
1970 Brian Rix
1969 Michael Hordern
1968 Stuart Burge & Moira Redmond
1967 Anne Bell & Robert Ryan
1967 Robert Lang (again) & John Stride
1966 John Neville & Frank Dunlop
1965 Robert Lang & Robert Stephens
1964 Anna Neagle & Derek Bond
1963 Griffith Jones
1961 Andre van Gysegham & Joanna Durham
1959 Evelyn Laye
1958 Joan Miller
1958 John Slater
1958 Flora Robson (again) & Andrew Cruikshank
1958 Vic Oliver
1956 Yvonne Arnaud
1955 Donal Wolfit
1954 Fay Compton
1954 Flora Robson
1954 Daphne Slater
1953 Sybil Thorndike
1953 Leslie Henson
1953 John Mills & Mary Hayley Bell
1952 John Harrison
1952 Michael Redgrave & Googie Withers
1952 Leslie French
1951 Ellen Pollock
1951 Margaret Rawlings