- John Barrowman
John Barrowman (born 11 March, 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow) is a British-American actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He currently lives in the UK. He became a United States citizen in 1985, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. Barrowman is best known on British television for his acting and his presenting work on theatre.
- Julie Walters
Julia Mary Walters, OBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film, television and stage actress.
- Michael Parkinson
Michael Parkinson CBE (born 28 March, 1935) is an English journalist and television presenter. He is most famous for presenting his eponymous interview programme, "Parkinson".
- Connie Booth
Constance Booth (known as "Connie"), born 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, is an American writer and actress best known for her appearances on British television, and particularly for her work with John Cleese.
- David Yates
David Yates is an English film and television director. He has worked extensively in British television, mainly for the BBC, helming high-profile drama projects such as "When I Was a Girl" (1991), "The Sins" (2000), "The Way We Live Now" (2001), Paul Abbott's "State of Play" (2003), "The Young Visiters" (2003), "Sex Traffic" (2004) and Richard Curtis's "The Girl in the Café" (2005).
- Verity Lambert
Verity Lambert OBE (born November 27 1935) is a British television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series "Doctor Who", a programme which has become a part of British popular culture. Lambert was a pioneer woman in British television; when she was appointed to "Doctor Who" in 1963, she was the youngest and only female drama producer working at the BBC. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s, …
- Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett (born 17 July, 1960) is a British television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the USA. "Survivor" is the most watched summer series since "Sonny and Cher". Burnett produced the USA version of the series "Survivor" and the "Eco-Challenge". His eponymous production company setup "The Apprentice", "The Restaurant", "The Casino", "Rock Star", "Combat Missions", …
- Alan Sugar
Sir Alan Michael Sugar is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16, Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. He now has an estimated fortune of £830m. and was ranked 84th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Despite being best known as a technology businessman, most of Sugar's wealth now derives from his property portfolio in Mayfair, rather than business ventures.
- Marty Feldman
Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 - 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and BAFTA award winning actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition known as Graves Disease.
- Michael Barrymore
Michael Ciaran Parker (born May 4 1952 in Bermondsey, London), is an English comedian, actor, and entertainer better known by his stage name Michael Barrymore. His rather lanky appearance and madcap, hyperactive personality made him one of the most popular presenters of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television, until the death of a partygoer, Stuart Lubbock, at his house in the village of Roydon in Essex tarnished his image.
- Tara Fitzgerald
Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967 in Sussex) is an English actress most widely known for her film roles in "Sirens" (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film "Brassed Off". She has had numerous roles on British television, including "Six Characters in Search of an Author", "The Camomile Lawn", "The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew", and beginning in 2007, "Waking the Dead".
- Charles Allen
Charles Allen was Chief Executive of ITV plc from its formation in 2004 until 2007. He joined Granada Group In 1991, as CEO of Granada TV, During the next several years he was instrumental in the takovers of Forte Hotels for £3.9 billion in 1997 and the Takeovers of LWT and Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television in 1994 and 1999 respectively. In 2001 Granada Group merged with Compass to form Granada Compass, then demerged into Granada Media Plc and Compass Group.
- Ulrika Jonsson
Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967) is a Swedish television presenter whose most famous work has been on British television. She is the granddaughter of famous Swedish opera singer Folke Jonsson and speaks fluent Swedish, English, French, and German.
- Tony Garnett
Tony Garnett (born 3 April 1936) is a film producer who has worked in feature films and on British television. He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, and studied psychology at the University of London. One of his most famous early credits was the 1966 BBC television play "Cathy Come Home". In 1969 after the filming of "Kes", produced by Garnett and directed by "Cathy Come Home"'s Ken Loach, they co-founded Kestrel Films.
- Rudolph Cartier
Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Katscher; April 17 1904-June 7 1994) was an Austrian television director who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the "Quatermass" serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
- Lesley Sharp
Lesley Sharp (born in 1964 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is a British actress. She is best known for various starring roles in British television productions, most notably "Clocking Off", "The Second Coming" and "Afterlife". She also starred alongside "Bill Nighy" and "Stephen Moore" in the acclaimed radio drama "Kerton's Story".
- John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August, 1906 - 19 May, 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in "Who's Who" as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life.
- Roger Lloyd Pack
Roger Lloyd Pack (born February 8 1944) is an English actor. On British television, he is best known for his role as Colin "Trigger" Ball in the BBC sitcom "Only Fools And Horses". To international audiences, he recently achieved fame starring as Barty Crouch Senior in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", and is also known for his role in "The Vicar of Dibley" as Owen Newitt.
- Alan Plater
Alan Frederick Plater, CBE (born 15 April 1935) is an English playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. Plater was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne, England, although his family moved to Hull when he was a young child. Jarrow was much publicised as a severely economically depressed area before the Second World War, …
- Christopher Ryan
Christopher Ryan is an English actor who trained at East 15 Acting School in London. He played Mike TheCoolPerson, a member of "The Young Ones" gang in the British television series of the same name -- the only member of the cast who was not already well-known in comedy circles, he was a last-minute replacement for Peter Richardson, for whom the role of "straight man" Mike was originally intended.
- Anthony Ainley
Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the Master in "Doctor Who". He was the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado in 1973. He was born in London the son of the actor Henry Ainley. His half-brother, Richard Ainley, was also an actor. Ainley's swarthy appearance tended to get him parts as villains.
- Michael Fish
Michael Fish (born April 27, 1944 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England) is a retired weather forecaster, most known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office. Schooled at the John Lyon School in Harrow and a graduate of City University, London, Fish was the longest serving weather presenter on British television, taking up the role in 1974.
- Moira Stuart
Moira Stuart OBE (born 2 September 1949) is a British journalist who was the first Afro-Caribbean female newsreader on British television. She has presented many television news, and radio programmes for the BBC. At present she has no regular news slot, although Moira still works for the BBC. The reason she no longer presents the news on "Sunday AM" is as yet unknown. She lives in west London.
- Waris Hussein
Waris Hussein (born December 9 1938 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television. He moved to the UK with his parents at the age of nine. He is particularly remembered for having directed the first ever "Doctor Who" serial, "An Unearthly Child", in 1963. In 1964 he returned to the series to direct the fourth serial, "Marco Polo".
- Adrian Hodges
Adrian Hodges is a British television and film writer. His debut was the 1991 television drama "Tell Me That You Love Me", followed by screenplays for "The Bridge" (1992) and "Tom & Viv" (1994). After his film adaptation of Julian Barnes's "Metroland" (1997) Hodges concentrated on writing for television, including "Amongst Woman" (1998), "The Lost World" (2001) and "Charles II: The Power and The Passion" (2003).
- Katie Hopkins
Katie Hopkins (born May 31, 1976, in Barnstaple, Devon, England) is a reality television participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of "The Apprentice". She withdrew from the show in week 11, and was not dismissed with Sir Alan Sugar's catch phrase "You're Fired". Hopkins was memorable on the programme for her nasty comments to other contestants and to members of the public.
- Karen Dotrice
Karen Dotrice (born 9 November 1955) is a British actress known primarily for her role as the daughter in Walt Disney's feature film adaptation of the "Mary Poppins" book series. Dotrice (pronounced) was born in Guernsey (one of the Channel Islands), to two accomplished stage actors. Her career began on stage, expanded into film and television roles, and concluded with a short run as Desdemona in the 1981 pre-Broadway production of "Othello".
- Dick James
Dick James (born Reginald Leon Isaac Vapnick, 12 December 1920, in East End, London - died 1 February 1986) was the singer of the "Robin Hood" and "The Buccaneers" theme songs, from British television in the 1950s, and was a friend and associate of renowned record producer George Martin.
- Mark Lester
Mark Lester (b. July 11, 1958) was an English child actor known for playing innocent-looking boys in British and European films of the 1960s and 70s.
- Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as "First Blood". The son of immigrants from Bulgaria,<sup></sup> after graduating in English Literature from the University of Toronto, …
- Andrew-Lee Potts
Andrew-Lee Potts (sometimes credited as Andrew Potts) is an English actor who is known primarily for his roles in British television. He attended Leeds Performing Arts School, and began his career in Musical Theatre. He has appeared in many British television shows, including "Children's Ward", "Heartbeat", "Daziel and Pascoe", "Strange", "Foyle's War", "Fat Friends", "Dead Fish", and "Taggart".
- John Welsh
John Welsh was an Irish actor. After an early stage career in Dublin, Welsh moved into British film and television in the 1950s. His roles included James Forsyte in the 1967 BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga", as well as the butler Merriman in "The Duchess of Duke Street". He also appeared in "To Serve Them All My Days" and played the assistant chief constable in the early series of "Softly, Softly".
- Saira Khan
Saira Khan (born 1970, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England) was the runner-up on the first series of The Apprentice in Great Britain. She is now a TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA while hosting her own programme Beat the Boss. Saira has also appeared on TV show Ready Steady Cook and runs her own baby-products business. She is a columnist for the Daily Mirror, …
- Stuart Lubbock
Stuart Lubbock (born October 1 1969, died March 31 2001) was a meat factory worker from Essex, England, who died in suspicious circumstances. Lubbock died in the Princess Alexandra Hospital after being found unconscious in the pool of popular British television game show presenter Michael Barrymore's home in Roydon, Essex on the morning of the 31 March, 2001. He was wearing only boxer shorts. He had severe anal injuries and ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol in his blood.
- David Kossoff
David Kossoff (November 24, 1919 - March 23, 2005) was a British actor. Following the death of his son Paul, a rock musician, he became an anti-drug campaigner. In 1971 he was also actively involved in the Nationwide Festival of Light protesting against the commercial exploitation of sex and violence, and advocating the teaching of Christ as the key to re-establishing moral stability in Britain. Kossoff was born in London to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, …
- Edward Chapman
Edward Chapman (13 October 1901 - 9 August 1977) was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s. Chapman was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire and began his stage career in 1924. His first film appearance was in "Caste" (of which no prints are known to exist) in 1930.
- Kathleen Hutchison
Kathleen Hutchison is a British television producer, whose credits include Playing the Field, Holby City (of which she was the Series Producer, then Executive Producer for many years) and Casualty @ Holby City. On 21 September 2004 Hutchison was appointed Executive Producer of the BBC television soap opera EastEnders, after the then Executive Producer, Louise Berridge, resigned following prolonged critical and public criticism of the show.
- Marsha Thomason
Marsha Thomason (born November 22, 1976 in Manchester, England) is an English actress, who is best known in the USA for playing Nessa Holt in the NBC series "Las Vegas" for the first two seasons.
- Richard Clark
Richard Clark is a British television director.
- Ruth Badger
Ruth Badger (born 1978 in Wolverhampton) is a British business woman. Badger was the runner-up in the second series of the UK version of "The Apprentice". She is currently the presenter of the TV show "Badger or Bust". Badger has her own consultancy firm, "Ruth Badger Consultancy Ltd", with offices in Didsbury, Manchester and has also appeared on "The Big Idea" on Sky One