- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor-manager. Born in London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son of Julius Beerbohm, a Lithuanian born businessman of German descent, and his English wife Constantia Draper. His younger half-brother was the parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm. - Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was an English actor. - Gary Oldman
Leonard Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, Saturn and BAFTA Award-winning English actor, writer and director. He initially came to prominance in the 1986 film "Sid & Nancy", in which he played the ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious. He later starred in films such as "Dracula", "Léon", "The Fifth Element" and "Hannibal". Generally regarded as one of the world's most versatile actors, … - Mischa Barton
Mischa Anne Barton (born January 24 1986) is an American actress and fashion model, perhaps best known for her role as Marissa Cooper on the former Fox television teen drama series "The O.C." - Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson (born October 30, 1956) is an English actress. Stevenson was born in Essex, England. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, which led to a stage career starting in the early 1980s with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Although she has gained fame through her television and film work, and has often undertaken roles for BBC radio, she is still primarily a stage actress. - Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd (born October 6 1973) is a British actor from Wales. Educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film "Titanic" (1997). However, he is probably best known for playing the role of Horatio Hornblower in Hornblower, the made-for-TV films (1998-2003) based on C.S. Forester's novels. Gruffudd's recent notable film roles include Lancelot in "King Arthur" (2004), … - Jane Horrocks
Barbara Jane Horrocks, known as Jane Horrocks, (born January 18, 1964) is an English actress. - Ben Whishaw
Ben Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at RADA. Whishaw is best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet, and plays the lead character in Tom Tykwer's "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" - Hayward Morse
Hayward Morse (born September 13, 1947, London, England) is a British stage and voice actor. His career began on CBC television and with numerous stage performances in Canada and the United States. He made his USA television debut in 1959 with Ingrid Bergman in the critically acclaimed film "The Turn of the Screw". This was the first teleplay to be broadcast in color on the NBC network. - John Thaw
John Edward Thaw CBE (3 January, 1942 - 21 February, 2002) was an English actor who achieved his first starring role in the military police television drama "Redcap" (1964 - 1966), and subsequently appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles. Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Longsight, Manchester to parents John and Dorothy. He grew up in the Burnage area of the city. - Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is an award-winning Welsh actor, known for his work on stage and film, best known for his portrayal of Tony Blair in the Stephen Frears 2006 British film "The Queen". - John Vernon
John Vernon (February 24, 1932 - February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. - Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. Laurence Harvey maintained throughout his life that his birth name was Laruschka Mischa Skikne, but his real name was Zvi Mosheh (Hirsh) Skikne and he was called Hirshkeh by his family. He was the youngest of three boys born to Ber "Boris" and Ella Skikne, a Jewish family in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania. - Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock OBE (born 22 February, 1933) is an English actress and comedian. Born on the Isle of Wight, the daugher of a Publican, she attended Dartford County Grammar School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She then joined Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, and has since appeared in over 40 films, mostly television releases. Big-screen roles include "Carry On Cleo" (1964) and "Three Men and a Little Lady". - Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste received Academy Award, Golden Globe and British Academy Award nominations for her feature film debut role in "Secrets and Lies" in 1996. Since then, she has been seen in the films "The Cell," "28 Days," "The 24 Hour Woman," "Mr. Jealousy" and "Spy Games." Her television credits include the movies "Silent Hearts," "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence " and "The Man" and the mini-series "The Wedding." - Anthony Quayle
Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE (7 September 1913 - 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director. He was born in Ainsdale, Southport in Lancashire and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After appearing in music hall, he joined the Old Vic in 1932. During the Second World War he was an Army Officer and made one of the area commanders of the auxiliary units. - David Burke
David Burke (born May 251934 in Liverpool) is an English actor, known for playing Watson in Granada Television's 1980s Sherlock Holmes series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role. Burke was born in Liverpool, England and trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His strong and intelligent depiction of Watson was hailed as closer to the original Conan Doyle stories than previous screen incarnations. - Edward Woodward
Edward Albert Arthur Woodward (born June 1, 1930 Croydon, Surrey) is an English stage, film and television actor and singer. Originally a Shakespearian stage actor, he is best known for his role in the 1960s spy series, "Callan", his lead role in the 1980s American television series "The Equalizer" and for the 1973 film The Wicker Man. - Eve Best
Eve Best, is a British actress best known for her stage work. Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove and attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford where she read English. Among her earliest public performances were with the the W11 Opera children's opera company in London at the age of nine. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London graduating in 1999, … - Michael Blakemore
Michael Howell Blakemore, OBE, (born 18 June 1928 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. He is the only director ever to win Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play ("Copenhagen") and Best Director of a Musical ("Kiss Me, Kate") in the same year (2000). Blakemore was educated at The King's School, Sydney and went on to study medicine at the University of Sydney. The English actor Robert Morley, who was touring Australia, … - Brian Bedford
Brian Bedford is an English actor, perhaps most famous as the voice of Robin Hood in the 1973 Disney movie. He was one of the leads in the 1966 film "Grand Prix" with James Garner. In 1967 he was a regular on the short-lived CBS television series "Coronet Blue." Brian attended the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) (1952–1954) in London, UK and was in the same class as Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Alan Bates and Peter O'Toole. - William Gaskill
William 'Bill' Gaskill (born 24 June 1930, Shipley, West Yorkshire) is a British theatre director. He worked alongside Laurence Olivier as a founding director of the National Theatre from its time at the Old Vic in 1963. He was the artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre between 1965 and 1972, where he directed premieres of plays by writers including David Hare, John Arden, Edward Bond and Arnold Wesker, … - Sheila Sim
Sheila Beryl Grant Attenborough, Baroness Attenborough (born 5 June 1922), known professionally by her maiden name Sheila Sim, is a British film and theatre actor, and the wife of actor Richard Attenborough. Sheila Sim was born one year before her husband, whom she married in 1945. She was mainly active as an actor in the 1940s and 1950s; amongst her credits are the roles in the 1944 film, "A Canterbury Tale", and in "West of Zanzibar", … - Imogen Stubbs
Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is a British actress. She was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. When her family moved to a barge in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith and Westminster School, and then gained a First Class Honours Degree in English Literature at Exeter College, Oxford and was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. She subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. - Peter Yates
Peter Yates (born 24 July 1929 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English film director and producer. He went to Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager. In the 1950s he started in the movie industry as a dubbing assistant and later an assistant director for Tony Richardson. He made his first film "Summer Holiday" (1963) and later "One Way Pendulum" (1965), … - Gemma Jones
Gemma Jones (born December 4, 1942) is an English character actress on both stage and screen. Jones was born Jennifer Jones in London, England to Irene (Isaac) and Griffith Jones, an actor. Her brother, Nicholas Jones is also an actor. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was first recognised outside the UK in 1974, … - Sylvia Syms
Sylvia Syms OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress, educated at RADA, on whose council she has served. She is best remembered by most for her film work through the 1950s and 1960s but is still active in films, television and the theatre. She started as a starlet. In her second film "My Teenage Daughter" (1954), she played Anna Neagle's "problem" daughter, and by 1960 had worked with Flora Robson, Orson Welles, Stanley Holloway, … - Jill Esmond
Jill Esmond (26 January, 1908 - 28 July, 1990) was an English actress. Esmond was born in London, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore. While her parents toured with theatre companies, Esmond spent her childhood in boarding schools until she decided at the age of fourteen to become an actress. She made her stage debut playing Wendy to Gladys Cooper's Peter Pan but her success was shortlived. - Tsai Chin
Tsai Chin, (born November 30,1936), also known as Irene Chow, is a Chinese-born actress living in England. - Olivia Thirlby
Olivia Thirlby (born 1987) is an American actress. Thirlby has trained at the American Globe Theatre, spent a summer at the RADA, and holds a stage combat certificate from the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. She began acting professionally in 2003, and plans to pursue a career on stage and screen. She has appeared in the movies "United 93" and "The Secret". She has also played Aubrey on the television series "Kidnapped". - Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice was her trademark, and in 1995 she was ranked number 63 on "Empire" magazine's list of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. Greenwood worked mainly on the stage, where she had a long career, appearing with Donald Wolfit's theatre company in the years following World War II. She did make several memorable screen appearances, … - Sarah Miles
Sarah Miles (b. 31 December 1941, Ingatestone, Essex, England) is an English theatre and film actress. She first attended Roedean but at the age of 15 she enrolled at RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Shortly after her drama studies, Miles had her film debut in 1962 as a precocious schoolgirl in "Term of Trial" (1962), opposite Laurence Olivier. - Annalee Jefferies
Annalee Jefferies (born May 14, 1954 in Houston, Texas) is a stage actress. - Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September, 1916 - 15 July, 1990) was a British actress. Born and Christened Mary Margaret Lockwood Day in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan), Lockwood's family returned to the United Kingdom while she was a child. She then attended Sydenham Girls' High School, and a ladies school in Kensington, London. She began sudying for the stage at an early age under Italia Conti, and made her debut at the age of 12 at the Holborn Empire, … - Pamela Brown
Pamela Mary Brown (July 8, 1917 - September 18, 1975) was an English stage and film actress, born in Hampstead, London to George Edward Brown, a journalist, and his wife, Helen Blanche Ellerton. After attending RADA, she made her stage debut in 1936 as Juliet in a Stratford-upon-Avon production of "Romeo and Juliet". - Trevor Eve
Trevor John Eve (born July 1, 1951 in Birmingham, England) is a British film and television actor. In 1979 he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series "Shoestring", and is currently best known for his role as Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in BBC television drama "Waking the Dead". Eve studied architecture at Kingston Polytechnic College in London, before enrolling at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. - Simon Ward
Simon Ward (born London, October 19, 1941) is an English stage and film actor. The son of a car dealer, Ward had a pretty fair idea of what he wanted to do with his life from an early age. He was educated at Alleyn's School, London, the home of the National Youth Theatre, which he joined at age 13 and stayed with for eight years. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he worked in repertory in Northampton, Birmingham, … - Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (born October 29, 1935) is an English film and (once) television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden and Canada for many years, and now lives in Lithuania. After studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Watkins began his television and film career as an assistant producer of short TV films and commercials, and in the early 1960s was an assistant editor and director of documentaries at the BBC. - Alec McCowen
Alec McCowen (born May 26, 1925) is an English actor, best known for classical roles including Shakespeare. He was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Mary and Duncan McCowen. He was educated at the Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, McCowen made his film debut in 1953 in a British film, "The Cruel Sea", but achieved his greatest successes on stage. - Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox (born 1978) is a British actor. He was educated at Harrow School. He has appeared in several films, stage and television productions. He trained at RADA where he was a contemporary of Rhys Meredith. He is currently appearing in the stage play "Treats" opposite Billie Piper.
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