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Lionel Blair (born Henry Lionel Blair Ogus; 12 December 1931) is a British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter.
Blair was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the son of Myer Ogus and Deborah (Della) Greenbaum (mother's name given as Brenner on FreeBMD). His father was a barber; he emigrated from Russia to Canada to start a new life and his wife joined him shortly afterwards. The family was Jewish. Blair came to Britain when he was two years old. His first public performances were with his sister Joyce (1932–2006) in London Underground Station air raid shelters during the Second World War. He attended the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford in 1944, followed by London's University of East London, where he majored in ethnography.
Blair eventually rekindled his passion for musical theatre and began working in the West End. He gave up acting for dancing in 1947 although he subsequently appeared in the fringe production Out of the Blue (Chichester) and Who Killed Agatha Christie (national tour) among other acting credits. He took his stage name around this time, later changing it by deed poll just before he married in 1967 (his sister also decided to use the same surname professionally).
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