Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Cy Grant NPG x134909

© Brian Shuel / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Brian Shuel

Guyanese actor, musician, writer and poet. Son of a Moravian minister and a music teacher mother, Grant joined the RAF in 1941 when recruitment became open to non-whites. In 1943, on a failed mission during the Battle of Ruhr, he parachuted to safety after his plane was shot-down but found himself imprisoned by the German forces, eventually being freed by allied forces in 1945. In the 1950s he was the first black man to appear regularly on the Tonight show on UK television, making him... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.