Robert Helpmann lived a life – or maybe several lives in one. The boy from Mount Gambier studied with Anna Pavlova, then followed his star to London, where he acted with the Old Vic (as Oberon opposite Vivian Leigh as Titania in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’) and danced with Sadler’s Wells Ballet (partnering Margot Fonteyn). He directed and choreographed for the stage and acted in films, including ‘The Red Shoes’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, in which he made a memorable villain as the Child Catc