Editing Eric Thompson (section)

==Early life==
Eric Norman Thompson was born on 9 November 1929 in [[Sleaford]], [[Lincolnshire]], England, the son of Annie (née Jackson) and George Henry Thompson, a hotel waiter,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.scotsman.com/news/eric-thompson-1-488390 |title=Eric Thompson |work=[[The Scotsman]]|date=31 March 2006 |access-date=4 October 2014}}</ref> and grew up in [[Rudgwick]], [[Sussex]], attending [[The College of Richard Collyer|Collyer's School]], [[Horsham]]. He trained to be an actor at the [[Old Vic]] acting school in London and joined the Old Vic theatre company in 1952.<ref name="Stevens"/>