Norman Kay (bridge Player)
Norman Kay may refer to: *Norman Kay (bridge) (1927–2002), American bridge player *Norman Kay (composer) (1929–2001), British composer *Norman Kaye Norman James Kaye (17 January 1927 – 28 May 2007) was an Australian actor. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox. Early life and education Kaye was born into a tough childhood in Depression Era Melbourne, as one ...

Norman Kay (bridge)
Norman Kay (August 11, 1927 – January 17, 2002) was an American bridge player. He partnered Sidney Silodor until Silodor's death in 1963. With Edgar Kaplan, Kay formed one of the most successful and longest-lasting partnerships in organized bridge. It spanned more than 40 years, and ended with Kaplan's death in 1997. He was from Narberth, Pennsylvania. In 1955, Kay won the McKenney Trophy (now the Barry Crane Top 500) for earning the greatest number of masterpoints in American Contract Bridge League-sanctioned play during the year. Kay won 13 major North American Bridge Championships (NABC) in the period of 1957–1977, when he was named ACBL's top performance player. He was runner-up in the Bermuda Bowl twice (1961 and 1967), and was second (1968) and third (1960) in the World Team Olympiad. He was a World Bridge Federation World Life Master and an ACBL Grand Life Master. Kay was arguably the greatest bridge player who never became a world champion. He was known for both the r ...
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Norman Kay (composer)
Norman Forber Kay (5 January 1929 – 12 May 2001) was a British composer and writer. Education and early career Kay, who was born in Bolton, was educated at Bolton School, the Royal Manchester College of Music and the Royal College of Music. His teachers included Richard Hall in Manchester and Gordon Jacob in London. He began his musical career as a repetiteur at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne, where he worked with Fritz Busch, Carl Ebert and Geraint Evans. Television and film music Kay made his living from television music. He composed the incidental music for three serials in the first season of ''Doctor Who'', including the very first, ''An Unearthly Child'', as well as '' The Keys of Marinus'' and '' The Sensorites''. After leaving ''Doctor Who'' following its first season, Kay provided the incidental music for many of the ''Out of the Unknown'' stories during the rest of the 1960s, as well as composing the atmospheric theme tune of its first three seasons. Kay also pro ...
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