READ MORE: Meghan Markle: Expert shares steps to achieve Duchess' glowing skinHis first public performances were with his sister Joyce in the Manor House Underground station air raid shelters and on the trains of the Piccadilly line during the air raids of the Second World War.
During the blitz, Blair, his sister and mother were evacuated to Oxford, but after witness a German plane crash, they returned to Stamford Hill.
When Lionel was 13, his father died. Throughout his teenage years, Blair was singled out in several reviews for his performance as one of the children in the play Watch on the Rhine.
In 1944, he attended the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford and two years later, went onto join a touring company called Savoy Players.
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