Guildhall School of Drama & Music
by Sylviastel | created - 13 Jul 2012 | updated - 06 Apr 2017 | PublicStudents, past and present, who studied at the Guildhall School of Drama and Music in Barbican, London, England. Also, any faculty who has taught there past and present.
1. Rolf Saxon
Actor | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two
Rolf was born at Fort Belvoir in Alexandria, Virginia. After his father served in the Armed Forces the family moved to California, eventually settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating from American Conservatory Theatre's Young Conservatory, he was a founding member of both the ...
2. Rhys Ifans
Actor | The Amazing Spider-Man
Rhys Ifans was born and raised in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, the son of teacher parents, Beti Wyn (Davies) and Eirwyn Evans. He was educated in two Welsh language schools - Ysgol Pentrecelyn, where his mother taught, and Ysgol Maes Garmon. During his childhood, Ifans showed an interest in...
3. Ewan McGregor
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...
4. Daniel Craig
Actor | Casino Royale
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born ...
5. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
6. Hayley Atwell
Actress | Captain America: The First Avenger
Born in London, England, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. An only child, Hayley was named after actress Hayley Mills. Her parents, Alison (Cain) and Grant Atwell, both motivational speakers, met at a London workshop of Dale Carnegie's ...
7. Damian Lewis
Actor | Band of Brothers
Damian Lewis was born on February 11, 1971, in St. John's Wood, London, England, to Charlotte Mary (Bowater), from an upper-class background, and J. Watcyn Lewis, a city broker whose own parents were Welsh. He was raised on Abbey Road in London until the age of 8 with his siblings Gareth, William, ...
8. Naveen Andrews
Actor | The English Patient
Born Naveen William Sidney Andrews in London on January 17, 1969. His parents were both Indian immigrants from Kerala, India. In high school, he auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Two of his classmates were Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis. ...
9. Lennie James
Actor | The Walking Dead
Lennie James was born in Nottingham to Trinidadian parents, and grew up in South London. His mother, Phyllis Mary James, died when he was 12. Lennie and his older brother went into a council children's home. When he was 16 he was fostered with a social worker who had two older children, and they ...
10. Alfred Molina
Actor | Spider-Man 2
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna (Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal ...
11. Joseph Fiennes
Actor | Shakespeare in Love
Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is one of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Ralph Fiennes, an actor; Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus Fiennes, a...
12. David Thewlis
Actor | Naked
David Thewlis was born David Wheeler in 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Maureen (Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler, and lived with his parents above their combination wallpaper and toy shop during his childhood. Originally, he came to London with his band Door 66, however he changed his plans and...
13. Shirley Henderson
Actress | 24 Hour Party People
Shirley Henderson was the eldest of three sisters born into a working-class family in the village of Kincardine in Fife, Scotland. As a teenager she sang locally and performed in school drama clubs. Her first break came when she watched a singer on the Opportunity Knocks (1956) TV talent program ...
14. Honor Blackman
Actress | Goldfinger
One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...
15. Ben Chaplin
Actor | The Thin Red Line
With charm to spare and dark, unassumingly handsome looks, British actor Ben Chaplin arrived on the Hollywood scene in smart and sexy fashion with the comedy The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996). While his habit for avoiding mainstream artificiality in favor of small, intense, independent ...
16. Peter Cushing
Actor | Star Wars
Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was ...
17. Geraldine Somerville
Actress | Gosford Park
Geraldine Somerville was born in Dublin. She lived in Co. Meath until she was six, when her parents moved to the Isle of Man. Geraldine went to dance classes from the age of 6 and, at the age of 8, she attended the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire. There, she was taught ballet, music...
18. Claire Bloom
Actress | Clash of the Titans
Age has not taken the flower off this Bloom. The well-known and highly respected stage, screen and television actress Claire Bloom continues to be in demand as an octogenarian actress and looks as beautiful as ever.
She was born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931, in Finchley, North London, ...
19. Lesley Nicol
Actress | Downton Abbey
Born in 1953, to a mother who had worked in television, Lesley Nicol was a shy 16-year-old at St. Elphin's Boarding School in Derbyshire when she expressed a desire to go out and see the world - not, she recalls, to be an actress but to kiss boys. She went to a technical college in Manchester to ...
20. Simon Russell Beale
Actor | The Death of Stalin
Simon Russell Beale is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed talents in British theatre.
He spent his early years abroad as his father was Surgeon General to the British Army (his mother is also a doctor), but aged 8 was relocated to England and became a pupil at St Paul's Cathedral ...
21. Susannah Fielding
Actress | This Time with Alan Partridge
Susannah Fielding is an English actress. She grew up in Havant, Hampshire in a single parent family. She completed her A levels at Christ's Hospital school, a charity school in West Sussex where she found her love of acting.
She went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she ...
22. Peter Wingfield
Actor | Highlander
Born in Cardiff, Peter trained as a doctor at Brasenose College, Oxford and St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, but chose an acting career just prior to graduation. Peter caught the acting bug as a teenager at the National Youth Theatre in Wales and his drama training was at the Guildhall ...
23. Natasha Little
Actress | Mr. Nobody
Natasha was born in Liverpool, England. Her mother (Mary) is a teacher and her father (Fred) is a NHS manager. For the first ten years of her life she lived in the Middle East where her father sent up immunisation clinics for the World Health Organisation, and her mother taught at an English ...
24. Nicholas Boulton
Actor | Game of Thrones
Born in Gibraltar, and educated in Ireland and England, Nicholas studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama in London. His extensive career has encompassed stage, screen, and radio. He has played leading and major supporting roles for many British stage productions including for the ...
25. Aruna Shields
Actress | Prince
British actress Aruna Shields performed in UK theatre and film before she was headhunted by Tips Industries (one of the largest studios in India) to play the female Bond in action thriller Prince (2010). When the film released worldwide she became the fastest rising star on Google and the first ...
26. Michael Praed
Actor | Robin of Sherwood
Michael Praed was born in Berkeley, England to Derrick and Kay Prince, but spent his early years in Iran because his father worked as an accountant for a petroleum company. Michael was sent back to England for a public school education, which he did not enjoy. He attended the Guildhall School of ...
27. Chris Ryman
Actor | Count Arthur Strong
Chris is an actor of mixed Ethnicity from London (UK). He is soon to be seen in all three episodes of the John Wick prequel TV series 'The Continental' streaming on Peacock and Amazon Prime from September 2023. Chris trained at the illustrious Guildhall School of Drama, whose alumni include Daniel ...
28. Neil Dickson
Actor | Inland Empire
Fans of David Lynch will recognize Neil Dickson from his appearances in the new Twin Peaks and Inland Empire. The British-born Dickson has juggled a successful career in films, television and stage since graduating from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After several seasons in ...
29. Norma Varden
Actress | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The daughter of a retired sea captain and his much-younger wife, actress Norma Varden was born and raised in turn-of-the-century London. A piano prodigy, she studied in Paris and appeared in concert in England during her teenage years. Acting, however, became her career of choice, studying at the ...
30. Alistair McGowan
Actor | My Life in Ruins
Alistair McGowan, the master of mimicry, was born Alistair Charles McGowan in Evesham, Worcestershire, Great Britain. He is an actor, writer and producer. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican in London. There he studied alongside Ewan McGregor and Daniel Craig, among ...
31. Mark Mitchinson
Actor | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Mark was born in the UK but moved to New Zealand as a young boy. He returned to England in the early eighties to study as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He returned to New Zealand in 2002 after years in the UK running his own business. He resumed his acting carer in ...
32. Sydney Harrison
Actress | Musée haut, musée bas
Sydney Harrison is known for Musée haut, musée bas (2008), La galette du roi (1986) and Palace (1988).
33. George Martin
Music_department | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Known best as the record producer for The Beatles, George Martin had a long and varied musical career, and continues to enjoy a rare reputation as one of popular music's true "nice guys."
Martin was born into a working-class family in Drayton Park, England, on 3 January 1926. His classical music ...
34. Sam Logan Khaleghi
Actor | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
An EMMY Nominated Producer, Sam Logan Khaleghi was raised in Detroit, Michigan.
As an actor he is known for his work on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and Approaching Midnight (2013) where he directed his co-star: Academy of Country Music Award winner, Platinum artist Jana Kramer (...
35. Tanroh Ishida
Actor | The Railway Man
Tanroh Ishida, is a London based Japanese actor.
He is both a classically trained actor from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a professionally trained Japanese Traditional Theatre actor.
Tanroh started training in Japanese Traditional Noh/Kyogen Theatre at the age of three. His father and his...
36. Patsy Rowlands
Actress | Carry on Abroad
Patricia Amy Rowlands was born in Palmer's Green, north London on 19 January 1931 to Albert and Amy. She was educated at the Covent of the Sacred Heart in Whetstone. Her parents encouraged her to have elocution lessons to improve her employment prospects.
It was her elocution tutor who recognized ...
37. Hannah Britland
Actress | La migliore offerta
Hannah Britland was born on February 2, 1990 in Preston, Lancashire, England. She attended the Cardinal Newman College and later went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she graduated in 2011.
Hannah is best known for her appearances in Fresh Meat (2011), Skins (2007), Lovesick (2014) ...
38. Jessica Manley
Actress | The Wolfman
Jessica's first performance was as a 5 year old in the regional theatre where her father was Artistic Director and her mother was an actress and writer. Jessica - who goes by the name Jess - moved into a variety of roles in TV series before playing the part of Margot in the TV mini-series, Anne ...
39. Gavin Stenhouse
Actor | Kung Fu
Gavin Stenhouse is a British actor and musician.
He was born in British Hong Kong, the son of an airline pilot and a teacher. He spent some time living there as a child before his family moved to England. He spent the rest of his childhood growing up in Lewes, East Sussex, England.
He moved to London...
40. Neil McCallum
Actor | Catacombs
Canadian actor who was long resident in the UK. He worked as a recreational therapist in a mental hospital in his native country, and claimed he gained more knowledge about acting in that role than he would do later. He arrived in England in 1949 and studied at London's Guildhall School of Music ...
41. Mariah Gale
Actress | The Legend of Hercules
Mariah Gale attended Birmingham University and then trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She graduated from Guildhall in 2003, and made her professional debut in "Stealing Sweets and Punching People" at the Latchmere Theatre, London later that year.
In 2006 she won two awards for her ...
42. Jocelyn Pook
Composer | Eyes Wide Shut
Jocelyn Pook is one of the UK's most versatile composers, having written extensively for stage, screen, opera house and concert hall. Often remembered for her film score to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which won her a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination, she has worked with some ...
43. Selva Rasalingam
Actor | Bodies
Born in London, trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and appeared on stage in the West End, Shakespeare's Globe, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The only actor to have portrayed Jesus on screen in the entirety of all four Gospels. Voiced BBC radio drama and trailers for Al Jazeera ...
44. Peter Pamela Rose
Actress | The Day I Ran Into All My Ex-Boyfriends
Peter graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a BA Hons Degree in Acting.
Mainly known as a voice-over actress, she has thousands of VO credits to her name. Her noted acting credits include recurring roles on NBC's DEADLINE (Dick Wolf), ABC's ALL MY CHILDREN, and lead ...
45. Constanze Engelbrecht
Actress | Diese Drombuschs
Constanze started into the movies at an early age: as the German voice of "Jeff" from "Lassie." After "Gymnasium" (high school) the daughter of actress Alice Franz studied singing at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich, Germany, at Guildhall School in London, GB, and at the Mozarteum in ...
46. Sean Arnold
Actor | Bergerac
Sean Arnold was born on April 30, 1941 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Bergerac (1981), Great Expectations (1989) and The Caesars (1968). He died on April 15, 2020 in St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands.
47. Colin McCormack
Actor | First Knight
Colin McCormack was born on December 2, 1941, in Cardiff, Wales. His father was a railway worker. He was educated at King's College in Cardiff, then studied at the Cardiff Art College before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. There, he met his future wife, the actress ...
48. Alice Bird
Actress | Notes on a Scandal
Alice is a London-born actress and producer with a diverse range of TV credits, including Riches (ITV), Messiah (BBC), Snuff Box (BBC), Banged Up Abroad (ITV), Footballers Wives: Extra Time (ITV), Casualty (BBC), and Push (Fiver). She has received three Best Actress awards for her leading roles in ...
49. Will Bowden
Actor | Kraven the Hunter
Will was always interested in Acting but some say he went round the houses to get there. After a Modelling career that took him all over the world, where he ended up working with such prestigious photographers such as Bruce Weber and Arthur Elgort. Eventually after living out of a suitcase for ...
50. Mario Frangoulis
Soundtrack | Guiness
Mario Frangoulis was born in 1967, in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to Greek parents from Corfu. The political situation in Rhodesia was explosive then and when he was four his mother sent him to live with her sister and his husband in Greece. His aunt encouraged his interest in music and he ...
51. Misha Segal
Composer | The Last Dragon
After studying music with Israel's foremost composers-Paul Ben-Haim, Noam Sherrif and Isaac Sadai-as well as film and philosophy at the Tel Aviv University, Misha apprenticed under composer Dieter Schöhnbach in Germany; studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of music in London; ...
52. Michael J. Lewis
Composer | North Sea Hijack
Michael J Lewis, the award winning composer and producer was born in Aberystwyth, Wales. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he studied harmony, counterpoint and composition. His many film scores include Julius Caesar (1970) starring Charlton Heston, The Medusa ...
53. Javier Alcina
Actor | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, Javier's first job came from Oscar winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), to appear in his BBC adaptation of Love in a Cold Climate. From this point on, Javier's international career on Film, TV and Theatre has crossed paths...
54. Tessa Shaw
Actress | Murphy's Mob
Tessa Shaw is a direct descendant of the actor William Powell, protege of the great 18th Century Actor/Manager David Garrick. The Victorian folk heroine Grace Darling was also a family member. Tessa graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London , and earned an Honours Degree in ...
55. Gareth Jones
Director | Delight
Gareth Jones was born London 1951, son of BBC Foreign Correspondent Ivor Jones with whom he travelled to Germany, India and Lebanon. He studied at Westminster School, London, St John's College Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before training as a theatre director with Prospect...
56. Tania Davis
Actress | Johnny English
Tania Davis was born on July 4, 1975 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is an actress and composer, known for Johnny English (2003), Black Widow (2021) and BingoLotto (1989).
57. Shannon McKinnon
Director | Opening Soon
Shannon McKinnon is known for Opening Soon (2001), Charmed to Death (2021) and All-Round Champion (2020).
58. Andrew Hewitt
Composer | The Double
Andrew lives in Los Angeles and holds the greencard. He combines lifelong passion for film with extensive classical training, recording and performance experience. Andrew orchestrates and conducts all his scores, fusing them with electronic textures at his home studio. He has accepted invitations ...
59. Mary Eileen O'Donnell
Actress | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Member of Tim Robbins' theatre company, The Actors' Gang, since 2004, Mary Eileen is a New Yorker trained in London at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After playing an extra in the movie Hair (1979) as a Central Park hippie, her first paid acting job on stage was with legendary mythologist ...
60. Ana Clavell
Producer | Compromising Situations
Ana Clavell has been writing, directing, producing and distributing for the Film and Television Industries for the last 20 years, her expertise being cross-cultural themes and international co-productions, and all technical aspects of production and post production. Her specialty in re-writing, ...
61. Holly Atkins
Actress | Shakespeare's Globe: Romeo and Juliet
Holly grew up in south Manchester and south London where she went to Alleyn's school. After leaving school she travelled for a year before going to the University of Edinburgh and then training for three years at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Holly lives in south London where she is very ...
62. Kristopher Kling
Actor | The Deuce
Kris grew up in a small town in Kansas and went to University in the Midwest, studying theatre. He trained further as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. As a drummer he played and recorded with the band Transforming Apollo. He currently lives in New York.
63. Jake Thornton
Writer | The Princess
Jake trained at Londons Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He worked as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in London's West End, and toured the world with the Tom Waits/William Burroughs Collaboration, The Black Rider.
Since moving to Los Angeles, he began a writing partnership with ...
64. Paddy Russell
Actress | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
Paddy Russell attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and started her career as an actress. She left acting to become a stage manager because it paid more money. She progressed from being director Rudolph Cartier's floor manager to becoming a director herself, becoming one of the first two...
65. John Sichel
Director | The Siege of Golden Hill
Early in his career, John was asked by Laurence Olivier to direct the National Theatre Company in the award-winning film of Chekhov's Three Sisters (1970) with Olivier, Joan Plowright and Alan Bates. He then went on to direct Olivier in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1976) and Alec Guinness ...
66. David Blair
Director | Away
David is one of the UK's most prolific and respected directors, working extensively in both TV and features.
He won BAFTAs for his 6-part TV series, Takin' Over The Asylum, a show he commissioned - a first-starring role for David Tennant - and another for The Street, starring Timothy Spall. Along ...
67. Ben Bartlett
Composer | Vera
The distinctive music of BAFTA winning composer Ben Bartlett can be heard on many award-winning TV drama and Film productions.
2021 will see the 10th anniversary of ITV's flagship female detective series Vera for which Ben has proudly delivered all the music. Alongside Vera, Ben continues to compose...
68. Haylie Ecker
Actress | Johnny English
Haylie Ecker was born on October 9, 1975 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and composer, known for Johnny English (2003), Homage (2010) and The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012).
69. Patsy Rodenburg
Patsy Rodenburg was born on September 2, 1953 in London, England, UK. She is a writer, known for Closer (2004), Little Voice (1998) and The House of Mirth (2000).
70. James Galway
Music_department | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
James Galway was taught to play the flute by an uncle and he went on to join the Belfast Youth Orchestra. He attended the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and the Paris Conservatory. He was the principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for six years before beginning ...
71. Clare Lawrence Moody
Actress | Pride
Clare Lawrence Moody is an English actress and producer. Born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire in 1975, she gained a first class masters degree in English at Cambridge University, before being cast in the BBC film This Could Be the Last Time (1998). She appeared in Charles Sturridge's millennial drama ...
72. Oliver Mason
Actor | The Mysti Show
Oliver began drama classes at the age of six with The Guildhall School of Speech & Drama and got accepted to join The National Youth Theatre aged thirteen.
Oliver gained a B.A. (Honours) degree at The University of South Florida & Middlesex University in Drama & Theatre Studies before training as an...
73. Rachel James
Music_department | La princesse de Montpensier
Film composer Rachel James graduated with her second Masters Degree in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Joseph Horovitz and David Burnand. She gained her first degree in Music at the University of Surrey before taking her first Masters at the ...
76. Christopher Snell
Actor | Flyboys
Christopher Snell was born in Hammersmith, London. His parents were Geoffrey Stuart Snell and Margaret Lonsdale Geary. He attended the King's School Canterbury, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and read Graduate Studies at the Guildhall School Of Music and Drama (London) and at the Banff School of...
77. Helen Lloyd
Producer | Children on the Titanic
Helen Lloyd was born in North Wales but moved to live in Nottinghamshire at the age of 5.
After training as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the late 1960s, she spent the next fourteen years 'treading the boards' in theatres across the UK. Memorable roles include Amanda in '...
78. Gillian McCann
Actress | Coronation Street
Gillian came from Birkenhead and left school to work in an office at a print work before deciding to become an actress. She moved to London where she enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She never finished the course because she landed the part of Audrey Bright in "Coronation Street...
79. Anna Frankl-Duval
Actress | American Deportation
Anna Frankl-Duval is a British actor, singer, and voiceover artist. Born in London, she moved to New York at the age of nineteen to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Since graduating Anna has worked in theatre, film, TV, and voiceover on both sides of the Atlantic.
Anna wrote and produced...
80. Benjamin Frankel
Composer | Battle of the Bulge
Composer, conductor, arranger and music director. Trained Cologne, Berlin and London (at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama). From the age of seventeen, earned a living as a jazz fiddler, pianist and arranger in, among others, Carroll Gibbons' Savoy Orpheans and Henry Hall's BBC Dance ...
81. Andrew Rajan
Actor | Offending Angels
Born in London 1966 Andrew grew up in Bedford, moving back to London to take up an apprenticeship in Mechanical and Production Engineering with the Ministry of Defence. Completing his four years, he then took off around the world, settling for a time in Australia, eventually coming back to apply ...
82. Paul Prescott
Actor | Downton Abbey
Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. From 1979 to 1996 was writer and director for "La Bonne Crepe Cafe Theatre", London, for which he produced over 140 original works. From 1996 he has worked as an actor, director and writer, staging productions at the Riverside Studios, Jermyn ...
83. Aeone
Music_department | Team Knight Rider
Aeone (pronounced ay-own) was born in 1959 in Liss, Hampshire as Vikki Watson. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Emsworth - her family still runs an antique shop in Petworth, Sussex - , where she grew up. As a child she took song and dance lessons, and then went on to the Guildhall School...
84. Frank Cousins
Actor | The Pilgrim's Progress
Frank Cousins left the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London having gained the prestigious Acting Prize. He appeared extensively on British television and on the London Stage before founding his own fringe theater company, 'The Dark & Light Theatre' in South London.
At the time (1970s) this ...
85. Norman Walker
Actor | Whom the Gods Love
British operatic bass. Studied at the Guildhall School of Music 1931-35 under the tenor Walter Hyde. First appearance 1933 with the Halle Orchestra in Manchester. London debut: Verdi REQUIEM under Beecham. Sang at Glyndebourne Opera 1937-39. Sang King Marke opposite Kirsten Flagstad's Isolde in ...
86. Tamara Douglas-Morris
Composer | In Transit
Tamara earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Film Music Composition (MFA) in 2008 at University of North Carolina School of The Arts under the tuition of David McHugh (composer of 'Mystic Pizza', 'Moscow on the Hudson'). She received her Bachelor Of Music in Ethnomusicology at City University, London....
87. Helen Welch
Actress | Christmas at Maxwell's
Helen Welch is a songwriter, musician, actress and lead vocalist. She enjoys an exciting and varied career. A British transplant, she trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the heart of London Helen went straight into theatre and credits include Hello Dolly, Barnum, 42nd Street, ...
88. Ivan Lane
Snow White and the Three Stooges
Composer, conductor, songwriter and arranger, educated at New York University (with a Bachelor of Arts degree) and at the Guildhall School of Music and Art in London. He was an arranger for the Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron and Guy Lombardo orchestras between 1937 and 1943 and again between 1946 and 1948...
89. John Hollingsworth
Music_department | Dracula
Hollingsworth studied at the Guildhall School of Music, and, by 1939, was conducting concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he joined the orchestra of the Royal Air Force as an associate conductor, at the same time orchestrating wartime documentaries made by the Crown Film...
90. Christian Dixon
Actor | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Christian is an actor of stage, screen and television. Most notable works include playing lead for The Royal Shakespeare Company, featured work with The Old Vic Theatre, Royal Court Theatre,The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and work for BBC television.
Trained at The Guildhall School of Music &...
91. Arthur Dulay
Composer | Matinee Idol
Arthur Dulay first played the piano in public when he was 6. He went on to study under Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at the Guildhall School of music in London and was a student alongside Thomas Beecham. He began a successful career as an accompanist of silent films at the age of 16, and played from a ...
92. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writer | The Ancient Mariner
Born the youngest of ten children of John Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (always called "Col") was bullied so viciously by his elder brother that he ran away from home at the age of seven. Though he was discovered and returned the next morning, the memory of that night would provide fodder for ...
93. Thomas Beecham
Soundtrack | The Red Shoes
Thomas Beecham was born on April 29, 1879 in St. Helens, Merseyside, England, UK. He is known for The Red Shoes (1948), Atonement (2007) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). He was married to Shirley Hudson, Betty Humby-Beecham and Utica Celestia Welles. He died on March 8, 1961 in London, England, UK.
94. Gordon Gribbin
University: Birmingham. Post grad. certificate in advanced conducting: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Worked BBC 1965-1974, moved to Australia in 1974 and worked for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1974-1992. Left ABC to work independently. Musical comedy: 'The Mace, book, lyrics...
95. Gabrielle Richardson
Actress | Dead South
Gabrielle Richardson, 21, is a pursuing a double major in Vocal and Piano Performance at Millsaps College; she is minoring in Anthropology, and upon graduation will receive a national certification for choral conducting. She plans to attend graduate school for the performing arts, either at UC ...
96. Louis Berkman
97. Nicholas Irons
Actor | Berkeley Square
Nicholas Irons was born in 1970 in Hampshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Berkeley Square (1998), The Madness of King George (1994) and Sharpe (1993).
98. Mollie Sugden
Actress | Are You Being Served?
Best remembered as 'Mrs. Slocombe' on the British comedy "Are You Being Served?" Mollie Sugden was born in Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. She attended Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her first television role came in 1962 with the series "Hugh and I," which ran for four...
99. Clive Rowe
Actor | Beauty and the Beast
Clive Rowe was born on March 27, 1964 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Beauty and the Beast (2017), Doctor Who (2005) and Paper Mask (1990).
100. Alice MacDonald
Actress | A Touch of Frost
Alice MacDonald is known for A Touch of Frost (1992), Taggart (1983) and One for the Road (1995).
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