Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian/British film director and producer. He was a leading figure in the British film industry and the founder of London Films. The elder brother of future filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent Korda, Korda was born Sándor László Kellner of Jewish heritage in Pusztatúrpásztó in Austria-Hungary (now Hungary), where he worked as a journalist (supporting the Hungarian Soviet Republic) before going into films as a producer.

Oscar Deutsch (1893-1941) was the founder of the Odeon Cinemas chain in the United Kingdom. Deutsch was born in Birmingham, England, the son of a successful Hungarian Jewish scrap metal merchant. He opened his first cinema in nearby Brierley Hill, Dudley in 1928. By 1933 he had 26 Odeons and "Odeon" had started to become a household word, used interchangeably with "cinema" in some parts of the UK until after World War II. By 1937 there were 250 Odeons, …

Sir John Davis (1906-1993) was an English accountant and film executive. He was the right hand man of J. Arthur Rank at the Rank Organisation for many years. He became Chairman on Rank's retirement and steered the company away from near bankruptcy to a strong financial position, by diversifying the group into different fields. He was married five times and among his wives was the actress Dinah Sheridan (1954-1965).

Ken Annakin (born August 10, 1914 in Beverley, Yorkshire) is an English film director. His career in films followed his work experience in documentaries. He made his directing debut in 1947 at the Rank Organisation, although the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to helm three films about the Huggetts, a working class family living in suburban England.

Belinda Lee (June 15, 1935 - March 12, 1961) was an English actress. Born in Budleigh Salterton, England, Lee was signed to a film contract in 1954 by the Rank Studios after being seen performing as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Often cast in demure roles in her early career, she was able to demonstrate her dramatic abilities, however she found more constant employment when she began to play "sexpot" roles.

Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918-13 January 1970) was an English actor. James Hanley was born in Norwich, Norfolk. He began as a child actor, before becoming popular in juvenile roles. He was a good natured actor, who was groomed by the Rank Studio system during his teenage years. He earned film stardom as 'a boy next door type' in exuberant musicals and likeable musicals. He later worked on TV, hosting the ITV series Jim's Inn, …

Muriel Box (September 22, 1905 - May 19, 1991) was a prolific English screenwriter and director in what at the time was basically a male industry, and is generally considered to be one of the most successful females in the history of British film. She was born Violette Muriel Baker in Tolworth, Surrey, England in 1905. When her attempts at acting and dancing proved to be unsuccessful, she accepted work as a continuity girl for British International Pictures.

William MacQuitty (May 15, 1905 - February 4, 2004) was a British film producer and also a writer and photographer. He is most noted for his production of the 1958 Rank Organisation / Pinewood Studios film, "A Night to Remember", which recreates the story of the sinking of RMS Titanic, based on the book of the same name by Walter Lord.

James Blades OBE (September 9, 1901 - May 19, 1999) was an English percussionist. He was one of the most celebrated percussionists, having had a long and varied career. He also wrote "Percussion Instruments and their History" (Kahn & Averill) ISBN-10: 0-933224-61-3, one of the standard works on percussion instruments. Jimmy, as he was known to all, was born in Peterborough in 1901. He was a long-time associate of Benjamin Britten, …

Philip Gilbert was a Canadian actor born in Vancouver, British Columbia and educated at Vancouver College. He was a player with the Rank Organisation appearing in many films during the fifties and sixties starring opposite such notable actors as Peter Finch, Norman Wisdom, Stanley Baker, Bob Monkhouse, Donald Sutherland, Dirk Bogarde and Sir John Mills.

Maxwell Reed (1919-1974) was an Irish-born 1950s matinee idol with the Rank Organisation in Britain. He became the first husband of the young British starlet, Joan Collins in the 1950s. Their first sexual encounter was supposedly preceded by him drugging her; when she awoke, Reed inquired "Did you enjoy that?" Collins divorced him after he allegedly tried to sell her to an Arab sheik.

Ralph Smart was a film and television Writer, director and Producer. Although born in London, in 1908, and educated in England, his Australian parentage left him in no doubt that he was an Australian. He originally found work in Britain alongside the film director Michael Powell, whom he assisted in turning out the so-called "Quota Quickies", low budget B-pictures designed to fill domestic production quotas. During the war he joined the Royal Australian Air Force, …

Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 - January 8, 1972) was an American film director. He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin. In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, …

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (December 22 1888 - March 29 1972) was a British industrialist and film producer, and founder of the Rank Organisation, now known as The Rank Group Plc.

Cecil McGivern CBE (born May 22 1907 in Newcastle, UK; died January 30 1963 in Buckinghamshire, UK) was a British broadcasting executive, who initially worked for BBC Radio before transferring to BBC Television in the late 1940s. The son of Irish immigrants, McGivern was educated at St Cuthbert's Grammar School and later attended Durham University. His initial ambition was to be an actor, …

Kenneth Richmond was a British wrestler. He won a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics and was also a whale ship crewman before he got into the gong business. He stayed fit enough into old age to win medals for rollerblading and windsurfing in his 60s. Though he made a memorable appearance as the wrestler Nikolai in Jules Dassin's "Night and the City", …

Harold Auten (VC, DSC) (22 August 1891 - 3 October 1964) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. A former pupil of Wilson's School, he was 26 years old, and a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 30 July 1918 in the English Channel, …

William Thomas Wells, also known as, Billy "Bombardier" Wells (August 31, 1889 - June 12, 1967) was a heavyweight boxer. Fighting under the name 'Bombardier' Billy Wells, he was British and British Empire Champion from 1911 until 1919. In 1911 he became the first Heavyweight to win the Lonsdale Belt.

Ingram Wilcox (born 1944) is a British quiz enthusiast who is best known for becoming the fifth person to win one million pounds on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2006. In two previous appearances he reached the "fastest finger first" stage but didn't get through.

Craig Kjaer Field Manager craig@rsm1.com Craig has been at RSM since 1992 and has overall responsibility for field operations including scheduling, costing and planning of projects, and management of 3 managers and a team of 8 supervisors. Craig has been at RSM since 1992 and has overall responsibility for field operations including scheduling, costing and planning of projects, and management of 3 managers and a team of 8 supervisors.