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Cinéma/TV
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George Brigars Williams
Musicien/ne, Acteur/trice, Conférencier/e
Ghana
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English
Born on 8th January 1929 in Sekondi. He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast and then to the Balham & Tooting College of Commerce and also studied Acting at The Stage Craft Centre all in London, U.K.
He performed in Julian Green’s South at the London’s Arts Theatre, soon after he joined the musical ballet Carribean Heatwave with Shirley Bassey as the lead singer and Ben Johnson as the lead dancer opening at the Little Theatre in Jersey.
After a series of programmes on the BBC West African Service, he made several recordings with great jazz musicians in England such as Hurry Cline, Mike Makenzie, Shake Kean and Joe Harriot.
In 1956 George B. Williams produced a pageant that featured five hundred dancers from all the regions of Ghana at the Accra Sports Stadium, as part of the Independence anniversary celebration of Ghana.
He was hired as a senior producer in the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and the seconded to the Nigerian Broadcasting Service. In 1961 he won a Commonwealth scholarship to study broadcasting at the BBC.
After returning from England he joined the Liberian Advertising Service and later became the Chief Executive of the Sierra Leone Advertising Service.
He also represented the New York Times in Sierra Leone in advertising & Sales.
In 1968 he returned to Ghana as the Commercial Manager of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. He performed under the name Buddy Pipp on the professional stage, cinema and recording studios. He has featured in two dozen films in Ghana and Abroad. George Brigars Williams has five children and is a widower.
Source - Accra Film School
He performed in Julian Green’s South at the London’s Arts Theatre, soon after he joined the musical ballet Carribean Heatwave with Shirley Bassey as the lead singer and Ben Johnson as the lead dancer opening at the Little Theatre in Jersey.
After a series of programmes on the BBC West African Service, he made several recordings with great jazz musicians in England such as Hurry Cline, Mike Makenzie, Shake Kean and Joe Harriot.
In 1956 George B. Williams produced a pageant that featured five hundred dancers from all the regions of Ghana at the Accra Sports Stadium, as part of the Independence anniversary celebration of Ghana.
He was hired as a senior producer in the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and the seconded to the Nigerian Broadcasting Service. In 1961 he won a Commonwealth scholarship to study broadcasting at the BBC.
After returning from England he joined the Liberian Advertising Service and later became the Chief Executive of the Sierra Leone Advertising Service.
He also represented the New York Times in Sierra Leone in advertising & Sales.
In 1968 he returned to Ghana as the Commercial Manager of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. He performed under the name Buddy Pipp on the professional stage, cinema and recording studios. He has featured in two dozen films in Ghana and Abroad. George Brigars Williams has five children and is a widower.
Source - Accra Film School
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