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1. Stanley Baker

Actor | Zulu

Stanley Baker was unusual star material to emerge during the Fifties - when impossibly handsome and engagingly romantic leading men were almost de rigueur. Baker was forged from a rougher mould. His was good-looking, but his features were angular, taut, austere and unwelcoming. His screen persona ...

2. Arthur Askey

Actor | The Love Match

Arthur Askey was a diminutive British comedian, born in 1900. He began his professional career as a music hall performer in 1924, but it wasn't until 1938's Band Waggon (1940) (which lasted for three seasons), that he became a household name in England. His film debut was in the 1937 British feature...

3. Robert Beatty

Actor | 2001: A Space Odyssey

Robert Beatty graduated with a B.A. from the University of Toronto and started in amateur dramatics with the Hamilton Player's Guild. For a while, he made a living as a cashier for a gas and fuel company. In order to further hone his acting skills, he made his way to London in 1936 (on the advice of...

4. James Beck

Actor | Dad's Army

Londoner James Beck took to the Theatre at the end of his National Service, playing roles as diverse as Shylock to Archie Rice in "The Entertainer". His role as Cockney spiv Private Walker in Dad's Army made him a familiar face, if not a familiar name. His life was cut short before a potentially ...

5. Anthony Blunt

Writer | The Art of Claude Lorrain

Anthony Blunt was born on September 26, 1907 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Art of Claude Lorrain (1970) and Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (1952). He died on March 26, 1983 in London, England, UK.

6. Lillian Board

Self | A Question of Sport

Lillian Board was born on December 13, 1948 in Durban, Natal, South Africa. She died on December 26, 1970 in Munich, West Germany.

7. Derek Bond

Actor | Scott of the Antarctic

Scottish-born Derek Bond was a leading man of post-war British films fondly remembered for his portrayal of the titular hero in Ealing Studios' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947), an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.

The actor was born in Glasgow on January 26, 1920, the son ...

8. Reginald Bosanquet

Self | Story Box

He read history at Oxford and wanted to do something on current affairs so on leaving on the advice of BBC's Hue Weldon joined ITN at the birth of ITV, He spent his first 2 years behind the scenes before starting newscasting, He says that he was very bad for about a year before he got the hang of ...

9. Sheila Burrell

Actress | Cold Comfort Farm

Sheila Burrell was born on May 9, 1922 in Blackheath, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Paranoiac (1963) and The Feathered Serpent (1976). She was married to David Sim and Laurence Payne. She died on July 19, 2011 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, ...

10. Howard Carter

Self | Late Night Poker

11. Peter Cheyney

Writer | Callaghan remet ça

Peter Cheyney was born on February 22, 1896 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Callaghan remet ça (1961), Diplomatic Courier (1952) and Les femmes s'en balancent (1954). He died on June 26, 1951 in London, England, UK.

12. Ivy Compton Burnett

Writer | ITV Playhouse

Ivy Compton Burnett is known for ITV Playhouse (1967) and La substitution (1973).

13. Sandy Denny

Soundtrack | Crush

Sandy Denny was born on January 6, 1947 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Crush (2001), The Dancer Upstairs (2002) and The Subject Was Roses (1968). She was married to Trevor Lucas. She died on April 21, 1978 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK.

14. Jacob Epstein

Les statues meurent aussi

Jacob Epstein was born on November 10, 1880 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Statues also Die (1953). He was married to Margaret Dunlop. He died on August 21, 1959 in London, England, UK.

15. Alf Gover

The Final Test

Alf Gover was born on February 28, 1908 in England, UK. He is known for The Final Test (1953) and Badger's Green (1949). He was married to Marjorie Brooke. He died on October 7, 2001 in England, UK.

16. James Hunt

Transportation_department | Bobby Deerfield

James Hunt was known as Hunt The Shunt for his many accidents in lower formulas. He started his F1 career in 1973, driving for the maverick Hesketh team. Known for its wild parties and eccentric attitude, Hesketh wasn't taken too seriously by rival teams, but after competitive outings in 1974 and ...

17. Len Hutton

Self | The Final Test

Len Hutton was born on June 23, 1916 in Fulneck, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Dorothy Dennis. He died on September 6, 1990 in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, UK.

18. Hattie Jacques

Actress | Carry on Again Doctor

Best known for playing Matron--as in "Ooh, Matron!"--in four films: Carry on Nurse (1959), Carry on Doctor (1967), Carry on Again Doctor (1969) and, of course Carry on Matron (1972). Key roles included: Grace Short in Carry on Teacher (1959), Sophie Bliss in Carry on Loving (1970) and Peggy Hawkins...

19. Andrew Keir

Actor | Rob Roy

The character actor Andrew Keir (originally Andrew Buggy) was born in 1926 in the coal-mining town of Shotts in Lanarkshire, Scotland, of Irish Catholic extraction, and raised there with his five brothers John, Tom, Michael, Patrick, and Hugh, and a sister, Maggie. The son of a coal miner, Keir ...

20. Aleksandr Kerensky

Self | The German Curse in Russia

Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk, Russia, in 1881, the son of a lower-ranking nobleman in the Russian aristocracy. As a law student he gained renown for his skillful defense of socialist activists arrested by the Czarist police, which may well have contributed to his political party, the ...

21. Jim Laker

Self | The Final Test

Jim Laker was born on February 9, 1922 in Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Lily Laker. He died on April 23, 1986 in Putney, London, England, UK.

22. Mrs. John Lavery

Mrs. John Lavery was born in 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was married to John Lavery. She died in 1935 in Ireland.

23. David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...

24. Joseph Losey

Director | The Servant

Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. After directing some shorts for MGM, he made his first important film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), for RKO. While he was filming ...

25. Daniel Massey

Actor | Star!

Daniel Massey was an English actor of Canadian descent, best known for portraying his godfather Noël Coward (1899-1973) in the critically acclaimed film "Star!" (1968). For this role he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was his only Academy Award nomination.

Massey ...

26. Hilary Minster

Actor | 'Allo 'Allo!

Hilary Minster was born on March 21, 1944 in Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Doctor Who (1963). He was married to Christine A Parkinson. He died on November 24, 1999 in Kensington, London, England, UK.

27. Kenneth More

Actor | The Longest Day

Kenneth Gilbert More C.B.E. (20 September 1914 - 12 July 1982) was one of Britain's most successful and highest paid actors of his generation, with a multi award-winning career in theatre, film and television spanning over 4 decades.

At the height of his fame during the 1950's More appeared in some ...

28. Jennifer Paterson

Actress | What Rats Won't Do

Jennifer Paterson was born on April 3, 1928 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for What Rats Won't Do (1998), Fish and Milligan (1966) and Two Fat Ladies (1996). She died on August 10, 1999 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.

29. Jon Pertwee

Actor | Doctor Who

Jon Pertwee is best known for his portrayal of the Third Doctor on the BBC's science-fiction television series Doctor Who (1963) from 1970 to 1974. He was also the first to play the role following the transition of BBC One from black and white to colour. His 60-year entertainment career included ...

30. Roy Plomley

Writer | Celia

Roy Plomley was born on January 20, 1914 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Celia (1949), Dr. Morelle: The Case of the Missing Heiress (1949) and Kaleidoscope (1946). He was married to Diana Wong. He died on May 28, 1985 in London, England, UK.

31. Nyree Dawn Porter

Actress | The Protectors

Landing the starring role of Irene in the 1967 broadcast of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga," Nyree Dawn Porter established herself as a prominent actress for television drama. She was born on the north island of New Zealand and was first a stage actress in New Zealand before setting out for a ...

32. Eugen Sandow

Self | Ringkämpfer

Sandow was already a great admirer of Greek and Roman statues of gladiators and mythical heroes when his father took him to Italy as a boy. By the time he was 19, he was already performing strongman stunts in side shows. The legendary Florenz Ziegfeld saw the young strongman and hired him for his ...

33. Vladek Sheybal

Actor | Red Dawn

Looking back at his filmography, it isn't difficult to imagine Vladek Sheybal in a scene, lobbing Molotov cocktails at advancing German troops, against a backdrop of war-torn Warsaw. However, this part of his life played out for real. A member of the Polish underground, he was twice captured and ...

34. Joan Sims

Actress | Carry on Up the Khyber

Joan Sims, the "First Lady of Carry On", was born Irene Joan Marion Sims on 9 May 1930. The daughter of an Essex railway station master, Joan was interested in pursuing show-business, and soon became a familiar face in a growing number of amateur productions. In 1946, Joan first applied to RADA, ...

35. Vesta Tilley

Actress | The Girl Who Loves a Soldier

English actress Vesta Tilley (1864 - 1952) was the most famous and well paid music hall male impersonator of her day, nicknamed 'The London Idol'. She was a star in both Britain and the United States for over thirty years. Tilley also appeared in some very early silent films.

Vesta Tilley was born ...

36. Derek Waring

Actor | The Escape of R.D.7

Derek Waring was born on April 26, 1927 in Mill Hill, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Escape of R.D.7 (1961), Moody and Pegg (1974) and Killers (1976). He was married to Dorothy Tutin and Jeanne Cook. He died on February 20, 2007 in Petworth, West Sussex, England, UK.

37. Dorothy Tutin

Actress | The Importance of Being Earnest

Dame Dorothy Tutin's esteemed company of peers included other remarkable dames, including Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Unlike these others, Dorothy had limited screen time over the years and would develop the respect but not the stardom afforded the other two outside the realm of the theatre. ...

38. Lance Percival

Actor | Yellow Submarine

After being demobbed from the army having completed his national service he went to Canada where he got a job in advertising writing jingles for television commercials. At the same time he was the leader of a group of young musicians and singers called Lord Lance and his Calypsons doing night spots...

39. Daniel Massey

Actor | Star!

Daniel Massey was an English actor of Canadian descent, best known for portraying his godfather Noël Coward (1899-1973) in the critically acclaimed film "Star!" (1968). For this role he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was his only Academy Award nomination.

Massey ...

40. Joan Sims

Actress | Carry on Up the Khyber

Joan Sims, the "First Lady of Carry On", was born Irene Joan Marion Sims on 9 May 1930. The daughter of an Essex railway station master, Joan was interested in pursuing show-business, and soon became a familiar face in a growing number of amateur productions. In 1946, Joan first applied to RADA, ...

41. David Langton

Actor | The Avengers

His father, a wine importer loved the theatre and encouraged his acting ambitions and got him his first job at 16 touring with a Shakespearean company painting scenery and doing walk on parts. His mother disapproved thinking it wasn't a job for a respectable middle class young man. By 1939 he'd ...

42. Anna Massey

Actress | Peeping Tom

Anna Massey was born on August 11, 1937 in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Frenzy (1972) and The Machinist (2004). She was married to Dr. Uri Andres and Jeremy Brett. She died on July 2, 2011 in London, England, UK.