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Samuel Henry John Worthington was born August 2, 1976 in Surrey, England. His
parents, Jeanne (Martyn) and Ronald Worthington, a power plant
employee, moved the family to Australia when he was six months old, and
raised him and his sister Lucinda in Warnbro, a suburb of Perth,
Western Australia.
Worthington graduated from NIDA (Australia's National Institute of
Dramatic Art) in 1998 at the age of 22. He received critical acclaim
for his portrayal of "Arthur Wellesley" in his first professional role
in the Belvoir Street Theatre production "Judas Kiss" (directed by
Neil Armfield). He then went on to work in
Australian television on such shows as
Water Rats (1996) and "Backburner"
and then on the American TV show
JAG (1995)'s 100th episode (Boomerang:
Part 1).
Worthington made his film debut in the highly acclaimed Australian
movie Bootmen (2000), a film about a
troop of "tap dogs". Minor roles proceeded in
Hart's War (2002) and
A Matter of Life (2001) before
he was cast in another hailed Australian drama,
Dirty Deeds (2002), co-starring
Toni Collette and
John Goodman.
The following year, he starred in yet another Aussie film, opposite
David Wenham in
Gettin' Square (2003). The
director of the film,
Jonathan Teplitzky, originally tested
actors who were up to 8 years older than the then-27-year-old
Worthington. Teplitzky wasn't sure Sam "could convincingly play a tough
guy and also have elements of the leading man about him", but in the
end Teplitzky decided he was "fantastic", and had "David playing the
older, slightly more streetwise accomplice" proclaiming "it worked".
But it wasn't until 2004 that Sam got his big break. He was offered the
starring role in Cate Shortland's
acclaimed Australian drama
Somersault (2004), opposite
Abbie Cornish. The film made a clean sweep
of the Australian Film Institute awards in 2004, winning in 13 film
categories - the first time this has ever occurred in the award's
history. Worthington also won the AFI award for Best Male Actor.
Worthington's career took off internationally when he was cast as Jake
Sully in James Cameron's
Avatar (2009) and as Marcus Wright, a
cyborg who assists the humans despite their suspicions of him in
Terminator Salvation (2009).
Worthington soon became a household name, and starring in high profile
films
Clash of the Titans (2010),
The Debt (2010),
Texas Killing Fields (2011),
Man on a Ledge (2012), and
Wrath of the Titans (2012).
Worthington also provided the voice for the Call of Duty: Black Ops
video games.
In 2010, Worthington started a production company, Full Clip
Productions, with two of his close friends John Schwarz and Michael
Schwarz. The company teamed with Radical studios to print two graphic
novels Damaged and Patriots.- Ingrid Lacey was born on 6 November 1958 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Drop the Dead Donkey (1990), The Cat's Meow (2001) and In Love and War (1996).
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, at Laleham in
Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third of four children. His
brother Julian Huxley was a biologist known for his theories of
evolution. His grandfather, named Thomas Henry Huxley, was a naturalist
known as "Darwin's Bulldog." His father, named Leonard Huxley, was a
writer. His mother, named Julia Arnold, was related to poet Matthew
Arnold. Young Huxley graduated from the Hillside School, where his
mother was supervisor. He was traumatized by the death of both his
mother and sister in 1908. He then followed in the footsteps of his
brothers by going to Eaton and then to Balliol College, Oxford
University. At age 16 he contracted keratitis which left him
practically blind for two years, and disqualified him from service in
WWI. Upon his recovery he graduated with a First in English Literature,
he taught English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.
Huxley's literary life began in 1915, when he joined the circle of Lady
Ottoline Morell at Garsington Manor. There he met
Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence,
T.S. Eliot,
Lytton Strachey,
Virginia Woolf, and
Katherine Mansfield. He also met and
fell in love with a Belgian refugee Maria Nys. In 1919 she became his
wife, and they had a son, named Matthew. In 1920 Huxley began writing
for Conde Nast at House and Garden to support his family, and later
contributed to Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines. He soon established
himself as a successful writer and social satirist with his novels:
Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925, and
Point Counter Point (1928). The latter novel brought him international
fame and was lated included in the Modern Library list of the top 100
novels of the 20th century.
His best known novel
'Brave New World' (1932) was actually preceded by
"We" (written in 1920, published in English in 1924), which was the
very first anti-Utopian novel in literature, written by Yevgeni Zamyatin.
Both novels describe the futurist idea of One World State, where
totalitarian government manipulates people's lives by eliminating
individual freedom, family, art, literature, religions and cultural
diversity. Totalitarian government controls humans from their
conception and regulates assisted reproduction, as well, as education,
indoctrination, and also enforces the medical drug use for
pacification. Huxley himself called it a "negative utopia" which was
written as a parody on
'Men Like Gods' (1923), a Utopian novel by H.G.
Wells, which was also preceded by writings of Yevgeni Zamyatin.
In 1937 Huxley moved to Hollywood, California, with wife Maria and a
life-long friend Gerald Heard. There Huxley
befriended Jiddu Krishnamurti and
became one of his disciples, adopting a blend of eastern philosophical
traditions with modernized mysticism. He also joined the circle of
'Swami Prabhavadanta' and became influenced by Vedanta and meditating.
Huxley dramatically updated his lifestyle, become a vegetarian and
practiced yoga. He also experimented with non-addictive psychedelic
drugs and wrote about these experiences extensively. He even reported
that his eyesight had improved for the first time in over 25 years.
After the Second World War Huxley applied for the United States
citizenship, but was denied for refusing to take up arms to defend the
country. He remained a British Citizen for his entire life. Later in
the
1950's he turned down
an offer of a Knight Bachelor by the British government.
In 1955 his wife, Maria, died of breast cancer. A year later Huxley
became married to Laura Archera Huxley
who was herself a writer and also became his biographer. In 1960 Huxley
was diagnosed with throat cancer. In his last Utopian novel 'Island'
(1962), Huxley re-visited and updated his basic ideas from the 'Brave
New World' and from his other novels. In 'Island' Huxley summarized his
views on the modern world and society, including his position on
medical drug use and his political stands on democracy, modernity,
ecology and pacifism. The novel served as an inspiration for the 1960's
psychedelic culture and was also incorporated in ideology of the New
Age Movement. Huxley's opposition to the rigid social organization and
self-destructive nature of modern class society and inevitable fatality
of the modern world was paralleled by that of
Jean-Paul Sartre.
Aldous Huxley volunteered in experimental drug use in research carried
by his friend Dr. Humphry Osmond since 1953. Huxley repeatedly
experimented with mescaline injections and described his observations
in 'The Doors of Perception' (1954) and 'Heaven and Hell' (1956). His
own health deteriorated dramatically in the early
1960's. Huxley spent
his last days bedridden, almost blind, and unable to speak. On his
deathbed he made a written request to his wife for an intramuscular
injection of 100 mg of LSD. Laura Archera Huxley
followed his instruction, and Huxley died peacefully in a few hours
after the injection. That was on November 22, 1963, in his home in
California. His death was obscured by the news of the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on the same day.
Huxley wrote the original screenplay for Disney's animated 'Alise in
Wonderland' (1951), and co-wrote the screenplays for 'Pride and
Prejudice' (1940) and 'Jane Eyre' (1944). Many of his novels were
adapted for film or television: two TV productions of 'Brave New World'
(in 1980 and in 1998), a BBC production of 'Point counterpoint' (1968)
and 'The Devils' (1971) starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Ken
Russell, as well as other film and TV adaptations.- Ben Kerfoot was born on 5 August 1992 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Substitute (2015), M.I.High (2007) and The Falling (2014).
- Sally Smith was born on 19 April 1942 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Human Jungle (1963), The Avengers (1961) and The Little Beggars (1958).
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
Alan Bromly was born on 13 September 1915 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Crown Court (1972) and My Friend Charles (1956). He was married to June Ellis. He died in September 1995 in Middlesex, England, UK.- Robert Brooks Turner was born on 28 August 1882 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Journey's End (1937), Meet Sexton Blake! (1945) and Poor Old Bill (1931). He died in 1963 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
- Ginny Fiennes was born Virginia Frances Pepper in Godalming, Surrey, England on 9 July, 1947. She was a writer and explorer who worked alongside her husband Ranulph Fiennes. They appeared together in To the Ends of the Earth (1983). She was the first woman to receive the prestigious Polar Medal and the first woman to be voted in to join the Antarctic Club. In 2020, the Government of the British Antarctic Territory honored the contribution she made to "furthering the understanding, protection and management of Antarctica" by naming a mountain in her honor. She received numerous other accolades throughout her life and passed away from stomach cancer on February 20, 2004 aged 56.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Ernest Irving was born on 6 November 1878 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), His Excellency (1952) and The Man in the White Suit (1951). He died on 24 October 1953 in Ealing, London, England, UK.- John Wakeham was born on 22 June 1932 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He has been married to Alison Bridget Ward since July 1985. They have one child. He was previously married to Anne Roberta Bailey.
- Kenneth Sandford was born on 28 June 1924 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Mikado (1967), Patience (1965) and Together Again: A Tribute to Kenneth Sandford, John Reed, and Thomas Round (2000). He was married to Pauline Joyce. He died on 19 September 2004 in Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, UK.
- John Sandford was born on 20 May 1924 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Chîsana baikingu Bikke (1974). He was married to Cicely Sandford. He died on 2 January 2015 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Richard Harding Gardner was born on 18 September 1949 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sherlock: Undercover Dog (1994), The Kitchen Musical (2011) and Small Wonder (1985). He has been married to Chae Lian Diong since 8 June 2000.- Jeremy Hunt was born on 1 November 1966 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK.
- Nick Clarke was born on 9 June 1948 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was married to Barbara Want and Susan (Sue) Katharine Armstrong. He died on 23 November 2006 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Michael Behr was born in 1928 in Godalming, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Piccadilly Third Stop (1960), This Way for Murder (1967) and Pride and Prejudice (1952). He was married to Zibba Mayes. He died on 22 February 2010 in Tufnell Park, London, England, UK.