- Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the US, among the best-known being "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Casablanca", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "White Christmas". He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and 40s, where he gained a reputation for efficient competence, … - Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone (13 June, 1892 - 21 July, 1967) was an English actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as "The Mark of Zorro", "Captain Blood", and "The Adventures of Robin Hood". - Richard Greene
Richard Marius Joseph Greene (25 August, 1918 in Plymouth - 1 June, 1985 in Norfolk) - some sources list his birthdate as 1914 - was a noted English movie and television actor. His aunt was the musical theatre actress Evie Greene. His father, Richard Abraham Greene and his mother, Kathleen Gerrard, were both actors with the Plymouth Repertory Theatre. A matinee idol who appeared in more than 40 films, … - Patric Knowles
Reginald Lawrence Knowles (November 11, 1911 - December 23, 1995) was an English-born film actor who styled himself Patric Knowles, in which name his Irish descent is reflected. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s. He made his film debut in 1933 and throughout his career he either played film leads or second leads in movies. In his first US production "Give Me Your Heart" (1936), released in GB as "Sweet Aloes", … - Melville Cooper
Melville Cooper, born George Melville Cooper, (Oct 15, 1896 Birmingham, England - d. Nov 17, 1973 Woodland Hills, California) was an English actor who spent most of his career in America. He was usually cast as snobbish, ineffectual society types, clergymen or confidence tricksters. Cooper made his first stage appearance at Stratford-on-Avon at the age of 18. He settled in the USA in 1934, … - Roger Lancelyn Green
Roger (Gilbert) Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. Lancelyn Green studied under C. S. Lewis at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained a B.Litt. degree. Lancelyn Green produced retellings of the myths of Greece ("Tales of the Greek Heroes" and "A Tale of Troy") and Egypt ("Tales of Ancient Egypt"), … - Eugene Pallette
Eugene Pallette (July 8 1889 - September 3 1954) was an American actor who appeared in over 240 films. Born in Winfield, Kansas, Pallette became a silent screen actor beginning in 1912. He quickly advanced to featured status, appearing in many westerns. He worked with D.W. Griffith on such famous films as "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) and "Intolerance" (1916). At this time, he was a slim, athletic figure onscreen, … - Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter (b. June 13, 1900 in Cape Town, South Africa, d. September 23, 1975 in London, England) was a British character actor. Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938, as King Richard the Lionheart), "The Little Princess" (1939, as Captain Reginald Crewe) and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1941, as Dr. Lanyon). - Una O'Connor
Una O'Connor (23 October, 1880 - 4 February, 1959) was an Irish actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a notable character actress in film. Born Agnes Teresa McGlade to a Catholic nationalist family in Belfast, Ireland (now Belfast, Northern Ireland), and educated at St. Vincent's National School, she changed her name when she began her acting career with Dublin's Abbey Theatre. - Alan Wheatley
Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 in Tolworth, Surrey - 30 August 1991) was a former radio announcer who turned to stage and screen acting in the 1930's and was much seen in British films, being a television actor during the black and white era. He is probably best known for his role as The Sheriff of Nottingham in the TV series "The Adventures of Robin Hood" in the 1950s. - Paul Eddington
Paul Eddington, CBE (18 June 1927 – 4 November 1995) was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and '80s. A Quaker, Eddington began acting with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) which was set up to entertain British troops during World War II, but was asked to leave when it became known that he was a pacifist and a conscientious objector. - Archie Duncan
Archie Duncan (1914-1979) was a Scottish actor born in Glasgow. Although appearing in over 50 television series and movie roles, he will be best remembered for two - Inspector Lestrade in the 1954 series "Sherlock Holmes" and as Little John in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Richard Greene from 1955 to 1960. - Alan Hale Sr.
Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan, February 10, 1892-January 22,1950) was an American movie actor and director, best known for his many supporting character roles, in particular as frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. He was the father of lookalike actor Alan Hale Jr., best known as "the Skipper" on television's "Gilligan's Island". He was born in Washington, D.C.. - Herbert Mundin
Herbert Mundin was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowelled features and cheerful Cockney disposition. He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), on 21 August, 1898. His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. - Patricia Driscoll
Patricia Driscoll (born 17 December 1927) is an Irish actress who has appeared on both television and in films. She was born in Cork, Ireland. From 1955 to 1957 Patricia introduced "Picture Book", a BBC Television series that appeared on Mondays as part of the Watch with Mother cycle. The programme encouraged children to make things. She had the catch phrase "Do you think you could do this? - I am sure you could if you tried". - Ralph Smart
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, … - John Arnatt
John Arnatt (May 9 1917 - December 21 1999) was a British actor born in Russia. Never well known, he amassed numerous television credits in popular productions such as "Keeping Up Appearances", "Dangerfield", "Lovejoy", "The Professionals", "House of Cards" and "Z-Cars". "Doctor Who" fans will recall him as the second actor to play Time Lord Cardinal Borusa in the serial "The Invasion of Time". - Willoughby Gray
Willoughby Gray (5 November 1916, London - 13 February 1993) was an English actor of stage and screen born in London (though several sources suggest he was born in Aberdeen, Scotland). He achieved popularity in the mid 1950s after making 38 appearances on the television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood". He appeared as 'Pete' in Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" on its very first run in 1958, this being just one of countless stage performances he made. - Adrian Scott
Robert Adrian Scott (February 6, 1912 - December 25, 1973) was an American screenwriter and film producer known as one of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. Born in Arlington, New Jersey, Adrian Scott was the producer of the film noirs "Murder, My Sweet", "Cornered" and "Crossfire", all of which were directed by Edward Dmytryk. - Edward Mulhare
Edward Mulhare (8 April, 1923 - 24 May, 1997) was an Irish popular television leading man from 1956 to 1995. Born in Carrigaline, Cork, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers, Mulhare intended to study medicine, but was sidetracked by a growing interest in acting. After acting in various Irish venues including The Gate Theatre in Dublin, he moved to London where he worked with Orson Welles and John Gielgud. - Hannah Weinstein
Hannah Weinstein (b. Hannah Dorner, New York, June 23, 1911. d. New York, March 9, 1984) was an American journalist, publicist and left-wing political activist who moved to Britain and became a television producer. She is best known for producing The Adventures of Robin Hood television series in the 1950s. Mother of film producer Paula Weinstein. She worked for the New York Herald Tribune starting in 1927. - Jennifer Jayne
Jennifer Jayne (b. 14 November 1931, Yorkshire, UK - d. 23 April 2006, London, UK) was a British actress of film and television. Her name at birth was Jennifer Jones, which she altered in order to avoid confusion with the Hollywood actress of the same name. She was born in Yorkshire to theatrical parents' "it never occurred to me to do anything else", she said, than act. Her film debut was a minor walk-on in "Once a Jolly Swagman" (1948), … - Charles Lloyd Pack
Charles Lloyd Pack was a British film, television and stage actor. He was seen in several horror movies produced by the Hammer Studios including "Dracula", "The Man Who Could Cheat Death", "The Revenge of Frankenstein" and "The Reptile". His most notable role was Professor Marks in the British television series "Strange Report" but he is also known from other television appearances in "The Avengers", "Quatermass II", … - Robert Lees
Robert Lees (July 10 1912 - June 13, 2004) was a Hollywood screenwriter, famous for writing comedy, including several Abbott and Costello films. Born in San Francisco, California, Lees was well-regarded in the 1940s and 1950s, but his career was virtually destroyed when he was put on the Hollywood blacklist by the movie studio bosses during the McCarthy Era for alleged Communist activities. - Duncan Lamont
Duncan William Ferguson Lamont (June 17 1918 - December 19 1978) was a British actor. Born in Lisbon, Portugal but raised in Scotland, he had a long and successful career in film and television, appearing in a variety of high-profile productions. On film, the best-known of the many productions he appeared in were "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (1959 version, as Kennedy), "Ben-Hur" ([1959, uncredited but playing Marius), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962, … - 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. - Kevin Stoney
Kevin Stoney is a British actor (born 1921), best known for his television roles. He is well remembered by fans of the science fiction series "Doctor Who" for his roles in three serials - Mavic Chen in "The Daleks' Master Plan" (1965), Tobias Vaughan in "The Invasion" (1968) and Tyrum in "Revenge of the Cybermen" (1975). He is also noted for his role as the astrologer Thrasyllus in the 1976 BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius", … - Thelma Connell
Thelma Connell (30 June 1912 - 29 April 1976) was an English film editor. Born Thelma Myers in London, she began her career as assistant editor on films such as "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" before taking the editing role for the first time in "In Which We Serve" (1943). Subsequent films included "Green for Danger" (1946) and "Alfie" (1966) for which she was nominated for a BAFTA. - Louis Marks
Louis Marks (born 1928) is a British script writer and producer mainly for the BBC. He attended the University of Oxford and graduated with a DPhil. He made the surprising choice to become a writer. He began by contributing to "The Adventures of Robin Hood" in 1959 and continues to write and work in television into the new century, an exceptional record in modern television. His early work was as a writer. - Joyce Blair
Joyce Blair (4 November 1932 - 19 August 2006) was an English actress and dancer. She was the sister of Lionel Blair, with whom she often performed. She is the mother of actress Deborah Sheridan-Taylor, who played Saskia in EastEnders. Blair was born in London, as Joyce Ogus, the daughter of Myer Ogus and Deborah (Della) Greenbaum. Her father was a Russian barber; he changed the family name to Blair in her youth. - Ralph Michael
Ralph Michael (26 September 1907 - 9 November 1994) was an English actor. He was born in London. His film appearances include: "A Night to Remember", "Children of the Damned", "Khartoum", "Grand Prix", "The Assassination Bureau", and "Empire of the Sun". Television credits include: "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Dixon of Dock Green", "Danger Man", "The Forsyte Saga", "Man in a Suitcase", … - John Carson
John Carson (born 28 February 1927 in Ceylon) is a British actor noted for his appearances in film and television. His film roles include: "The Night Caller", "The Plague of the Zombies", "Taste the Blood of Dracula", "The Man Who Haunted Himself" and "Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter". TV credits include: "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Emergency Ward 10", "The Avengers", "The Saint", … - Leon Griffiths
Leon Griffiths (1928 - June 10 1992) was a British writer for TV and film. Griffiths is best known for being the creator of the ITV comedy-drama Minder. The inspiration for the show came from the stories he heard while frequenting North London drinking clubs. Griffiths was born in Sheffield, but grew up in Glasgow. During his National service he worked for the British Forces Network alongside Cliff Michelmore. - Derek Waring
Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple; 26 April 1927 - 20 February 2007) (Note. Some sources give his birthdate as 26.4.1930) was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in "Z-Cars" from 1969 to 1973. He was married to the actress Dame Dorothy Tutin and had been educated at Dulwich College, London. - Paul Daneman
Paul Daneman (born 29 October 1925 in London - died 28 April 2001) was an English actor with several film and television credits to his name. Paul attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School and Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and studied stage design at Reading University where he joined the dramatic society. After training at RADA he joined Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham rep and the Old Vic for four years. - Edmund Warwick
Edmund Warwick was a British actor who appeared in various television programmes. Some of his credits included "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Z Cars" and "Doctor Who". In the last of those Warwick played the double of William Hartnell as the First Doctor in three serials: "The Keys of Marinus", "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth" as a double for Hartnell who had become injured during filming, and in "The Chase". - Charles P. Boyle
Charles P. Boyle (1892 - 1968) enjoyed his first credit as a cinematographer in 1925. Three years later, he was the director of photography on one of the silent cinema's biggest comedy hits, "Tillie's Punctured Romance". He was second unit director on the Erroll Flynn swashbuckler "The Adventures of Robin Hood" in 1938 and did additional work on "Duel in the Sun" in 1946. - Ted Astley
Ted Astley (1922-1998) was a British composer often known by his full name Edwin Astley. He wrote music for many British television series of the 50s and 60s, including "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Danger Man" (known as Secret Agent in the USA, where his theme music was removed), "Department S", "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)", "The Saint", "Gideon's Way", "The Baron" and "The Champions". - Al Alleborn
Al Alleborn was a Studio executive and 2nd unit director in Hollywood film production. Alleborn came to Hollywood initially as a stuntman. In fact, his first film was also one of the first Oscar nominees, 1928’s “The Patent Leather Kid”. He received an Academy Award nomination in the short-lived category of Best Assistant Director in 1933. He was an uncredited unit manager on Max Reinhardt’s 1935 version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, … - Waldo Pressman Salt
Waldo Pressman Salt (October 18, 1914 - March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Waldo Salt graduated from Stanford University at age eighteen. The first of his nineteen films he wrote or in which he participated in the writing, was released in 1937 with the title "The Bride Wore Red"." He joined the American Communist Party in 1938.
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