Birth name Harold Lewis Fielding Role Theatre Producer Occupation(s) Theatre producer Died September 27, 2003 | Instruments Violin Genres Musical theatre Name Harold Fielding Movies Barnum | |
Origin Woking, Surrey, England Nominations Tony Award for Best Musical Associated acts Elaine Stritch, Ginger Rogers, Van Johnson, Tommy Steele Similar People Beverley Cross, Terry Hughes, Mark Bramble | ||
Harold Lewis Fielding (4 December 1916 - 27 September 2003) was an English theatre producer.
Fielding was one of Britain's foremost theatrical producers who produced several musicals, including Mame, Charlie Girl, Half a Sixpence, Show Boat, Scarlett, Barnum, Sweet Charity, The Biograph Girl, and Ziegfeld. He also produced "Music for the Millions", a touring variety show.
The son of a stockbroker, Fielding was born in Woking, Surrey and educated privately. As a child prodigy, he studied violin with Josef Szigeti. He also handled Tommy Steele's early career, and commissioned Half a Sixpence for him.
He was interviewed by Sue Lawley on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 on 17 June 1990.
Fielding married Maisie Joyce Skivens in 1955, and was widowed in 1985. They had no children.
He suffered a series of strokes in 1998, and retired to a private nursing home in Kingston-upon-Thames, where he died.