Career
Fielding was one of Britain"s foremost theatrical producers who produced several musicals, including Mame, Charlie Girl, Half a Sixpence, Show Boat, Scarlett, Barnum, Sweet Charity, The Biograph Girl, and Ziegfeld. He also produced "Music for the Millions", a touring variety show. The son of a stockbroker, Fielding was born in Woking, Surrey and educated privately.
As a child prodigy, he studied violin with Josef Szigeti.
He also handled Tommy Steele"s early career, and commissioned Half a Sixpence for him. He was interviewed by Sue Lawley on Desert Island Discs on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 on 17 June 1990.
Fielding married Maisie Joyce Skivens in 1955, and was widowed in 1985. They had no children.
He suffered a series of strokes in 1998, and retired to a private nursing home in Kingston-upon-Thames, where he died.