Editing Deryck Guyler (section)

==Career==
From 1946, Guyler became a regular on the immensely popular radio series, ''[[It's That Man Again]]'' (''ITMA''), a series built around comedian [[Tommy Handley]].<ref name="Gdn19991009">{{cite news|last=Woddis|first=Carole|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/09/guardianobituaries1|title=Deryck Guyler|work=The Guardian|date=9 October 1999|access-date=5 May 2021}}</ref> Guyler claimed that his character 'Frisby Dike' (named after a Liverpool department store bombed in the [[Liverpool Blitz|Blitz]]) was the first time the [[Scouse|real Liverpudlian accent]] was heard on the radio. He took part in a Royal Command Performance of ''ITMA'' for [[King George VI]] and [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Queen Elizabeth]] in December 1947. Guyler remained with the show until Handley died in 1949 when the series ended.

After ''ITMA'', Guyler worked in roles from the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Children's Hour]]'' to classical parts, including with [[John Gielgud]] in ''[[King Lear]]''. He was known for his often amusing asides in rehearsals. For a ''[[Children's Hour]]'' documentary about life in the coal mines, which Guyler was narrating, the producer had visited a mine and recorded most-realistic sound effects. As these were banging, crashing and thumping sounds he was heard to mutter: "Sounds like a [[Peter Brook]] production".
[[File:Birchflow DG.png|thumb|Deryck Guyler's autograph, signed in 1976]]
In the 1950s, he played the time-traveller (also known as "the voice") in the British sci-fi radio series ''[[Journey into Space#Journey to the Moon/Operation Luna|Journey into Space]]''. In the same period, he was on the radio series ''Just Fancy'' for 9 years which starred [[Eric Barker]].<ref name="BBC19991008" /> Guyler took on the role in the title character of a [[Scotland Yard]] detective in the [[Light Programme]] series ''Inspector Scott Investigates'', created by John P. Wynn, that ran from 1957 to 1963. During the half-hour programme a crime was committed; Scott and his sidekick, Det. Sgt. Bingham (Brian Hayes, brother of [[Patricia Hayes]]) interviewed two or three suspects; then, while music played, there was a short intermission for listeners to guess 'whodunit' before the final revelation. In [[Henry Reed (poet)|Henry Reed]]'s series of radio dramas about Herbert Reeve's inquiries into the life of Richard Shewin, Guyler played General Gland, soldier-scholar, campanologist and author of war memoirs, including in ''Not a Drum was Heard''. During the 1960s and 1970s, he starred in the satirical radio programme about life in the British civil service ''[[The Men from the Ministry]]'' with [[Richard Murdoch]]. <!-- Not in the entire run, originally the role was played by Wilfrid Hyde-White. -->He was in the series for 11 years.<ref name="BBC19991008" /> Guyler played the pompous, self-important Number One in the General Assistance Department, with Murdoch as his diffident but equally incompetent Number Two.

He appeared as the Police Sergeant in [[the Beatles]]' film ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' (1964) and as the art professor in the [[Gerry & the Pacemakers]] film ''[[Ferry Cross the Mersey (film)|Ferry Cross the Mersey]]'' (1965).

Guyler holds a unique place in theatrical history, having 'acted' in every performance of ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' since the opening night on 6 October 1952 in [[Nottingham]], via a recorded news bulletin which is still being used during performances of the play at [[St Martin's Theatre]], [[London]].