Barry Fitzgerald (March 10, 1888 - January 14, 1961) was an Academy Award winning Irish actor. Born William Joseph Shields in Dublin. He worked as a civil servent, and joined the Abbey Theatre. Starring in such plays as Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock", a role he recreated for Alfred Hitchcock in his screen debut in 1930. He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields.

Louis Hayward, was a British actor born in South Africa. Born Seafield Grant in Johannesburg, Hayward was a slight man, 154 pounds, a trifle over 5'10" with dark brown hair and blue eyes. His screen work began in British films. His most notable role possibly is Leslie Charteris' The Saint in "The Saint in New York". In 1939, he played a dual role in "The Man in the Iron Mask".

Roland Young (November 11, 1887 - June 5, 1953) was a British actor. Born in London, Young debuted in Hollywood in the 1922 silent film "Sherlock Holmes", in which he played Doctor Watson opposite John Barrymore. Between 1912 and 1941, Young appeared in twenty-one Broadway productions, including "The Seagull", "A Doll's House", "Hedda Gabler", "Beggar on Horseback", and "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney".

June Duprez (May 14, 1918 - October 30, 1984) was a British film actress. Born in Teddington, the daughter of the American vaudeville performer and actor Fred Duprez, she began acting in her teens with a theatre company and made her first film "The Crimson Circle" in 1936. Her next film "The Cardinal" (1936) was also a success but it was her third film "The Four Feathers" that made her a star.

Mischa Auer (17 November 1905 in St. Petersburg - 5 March 1967 in Rome) was a Russian actor, born Mischa Ounskowsky. Young Ounskowsky renamed himself Auer after his grandfather, violinist Leopold Auer. He began stage work in the 1920s, then moved to Hollywood, where he first appeared in 1928 in "Something Always Happens". He appeared in several small and mostly uncredited roles into the 1930s, …

Steven Charles Pimlott OBE (18 April 1953 - 14 February 2007) was an English opera and theatre director and actor. His obituaries hailed him as "one of the brightest and most versatile directors of his generation" ("The Guardian"), and "one of the most versatile and inventive theatre directors of his generation" ("The Times"). His output ran the gamut of the theatrical and operatic repertoire, from musicals, …

Harry Alan Towers (born in London on October 19, 1920) is a radio and film producer and screenwriter, who has produced over a hundred feature films and who continues to write and produce well into his eighties. He sometimes uses the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. Formally a child actor, be became a prolific radio writer while serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II.

Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films, often featuring detective or adventure plots, are commonly dominated by strong male chracaters who seek to revenge criminal acts but have to eschew commonly accepted social norms in order to succeed. Govorukhin was born in the Sverdlovsk Oblast and started his career as a geologist in 1958.

Anthony Howell (b. 1971 in the Lake District) is an English television actor. He is currently best known for his part in the BAFTA-award winning detective series "Foyle's War", where Howell stars opposite Michael Kitchen, playing Foyle's right-hand man Det. Sgt. Paul Milner. Howell trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre, and his acting debut came when he went on a world tour with Robert Lepage's "Geometry of Miracles".

Jack Smethurst (born 1932, Manchester) is a British TV and film comic actor of the 1960's,70's and 80's. He is perhaps best known for his role in the British sitcom "Love Thy Neighbour". Jack Smethurst made his film debut in 1958's Carry On Sergeant. This was followed by parts in the films "A Kind Of Loving" (1962), "Run With The Wind" (1966), "Night After Night After Night (He Kills)" (1970), …

Sam Crane is a British actor primarily focused on theatre. His theatre credits include "Ghosts" at the Bristol Old Vic, "And Then There Were None" at the Gielgud Theatre, "24 Hour Plays" at the Old Vic, "Major Barbara" at the Manchester Royal Exchange, "Rabbit" with Frantic Assembly, "A Little Requiem for Kantor" at the ICA and most recently, as Rodorigo in "Othello" at the Globe Theatre.

Ruth Madoc (born 16 April 1943 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, brought up in Llansamlet in south Wales) is a Welsh actress and singer. She is probably most famous for her role as Gladys Pugh in the 1980s BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi!, although appearances as Daffyd Thomas's mother in the second series of "Little Britain" have helped to maintain her profile much more recently.

Ivan De Battista (September 13, 1977) is a Maltese film and theatre actor. He has been involved in the theatre and musical scene since he was six. His early theatre performances were held at the De Porres Theatre, situated in Sliema with the Young Deporrians. As an actor, Ivan performed many major roles in productions with Atturi De Porrians, Atturi Salesjani, Bronk Productions, CurtainRaiser Theatre Troupe, Kumpanija Teatru Rjal, Produzzjoni Teatrali Irtokki, …

Patricia "Pat" Bottrill, MBE, FRCN is a UK nurse and was awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2004 for her outstanding contribution to the establishment and development of endoscopy and gastroenterology nursing in the UK and internationally. She was awarded the MBE in the 1997 New Year Honours list for services to nursing and health care, and was awarded an RCN Award of Merit in 1995 serving as Chair of RCN Council until August 2002, …