Neil Brand
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Neil Brand is a British writer, composer, and a world-renowned silent film accompanist.
He was born in Essex, England on March 18th, 1958, and attended Junction Road Primary School in Burgess Hill where he was affectionately known as, "Bogey Brand". At the age of 18, went to the University of Wales to study drama.
He has appeared in Switch, a BBC drama for the hearing impaired, as Ted, a bullying businessman. He has worked with the BBC over [60] times, including composing music, and writing plays.
One of his plays, "Stan", was broadcast as a radio-play on BBC Radio Four and then dramatised as a television-play first broadcast on BBC Four. It documents Stan Laurel's touching last moments with best friend and comedy partner Oliver Hardy, who lies bedridden after a stroke.
He has been accompanying silent films for over 17 years, regularly at the National Film Theatre on London's south bank and throughout the UK and increasingly at film festivals and special events throughout the world.
He has also written a book, Dramatic Notes, published by the University of Luton Press.
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