Hubert Robert Harry Gregg (19 July 1914 – 29 March 2004) was a British broadcaster, writer and actor.
He attended St Dunstan's College and the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art.
[1][2] Gregg worked as an announcer for the BBC Empire Service in 1934 and 1935,[3][2] while intermittently performing in repertory theatre.
[2] Among the "more than 200 songs" he wrote was the wartime hit "I'm Going To Get Lit Up When The Lights Go up in London", written in 1940 and sung by his first wife, Zoe Gail, in George Black's 1943 production Strike a New Note.
[2] After the war, he co-starred with Anne Crawford in Western Wind (1949) at the Manchester Opera House, and also directed Agatha Christie stage plays, including The Hollow (1951) and The Mousetrap (for seven years, beginning in 1953).