- Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in "The Avengers" and Tracy Bond in the 1969 James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". - Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee (born Daniel Patrick Macnee on February 6, 1922 in London) is an English actor. - Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman (born 12 December 1927) is a English actress, who is best known for the roles of Cathy Gale on "The Avengers" and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger". - John Buscema
John Buscema, né Giovanni Natale Buscema, was an American comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate. His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic-book artist. Buscema is best known for his run on the series "The Avengers" and "The Silver Surfer", … - Linda Thorson
Linda Thorson (born Linda Robinson, June 18 1947, Toronto, Ontario), is a Canadian actress on TV and films, mostly in the UK and USA. An alumna of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), her professional name is based upon her first married name, Mrs Barry Bergthorson. She is best remembered for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, "The Avengers", … - Don Heck
Don Heck was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series "The Avengers" during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books. - Roger Stern
Roger Stern (born September 17 1950) is an American comic book author and novelist. In the early 1970s, Stern and Bob Layton published the fanzine "CPL" ("Contemporary Pictorial Literature"), one of the first platforms for the work of John Byrne. Stern broke into the industry in 1975 as part of the Marvel Comics "third wave" of creators, which included artists Byrne and Frank Miller, and writers Jo Duffy, Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio. - John Paul
John Paul (April 20 1921-February 1995) was a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Dr Spencer Quist in "Doomwatch" (1970-1972) and Marcus Agrippa in "I, Claudius" (1976), both for BBC Television. An early role was as the lead in the ITV series "Probation Officer" in the early 1960s. During his career he also appeared in films such as "The Yangtze Incident" (1957) and "Cry Freedom" (1987), … - Zak Penn
Zak Penn (born 1968) is a screenwriter and director who is known for writing and directing "Incident at Loch Ness" and co-writing the script for "X-Men: The Last Stand". The screenplay for "Last Action Hero", for which he received a "Story By" credit with Adam Leff, was nominated for a 1993 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay; however, it lost to the "Indecent Proposal" script. - Brian Clemens
Brian Clemens (born 1931 in Croydon, England) is a screenwriter and television producer, possibly best known for his work on "The Avengers" and "The Professionals". He has also contributed to "Bergerac", "The Baron", "Bugs", "The Champions", "Thriller", and the "Highlander" series. In the early 1970s he produced the Hammer films "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" and "Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter". - Penelope Houston
Penelope Houston (born December 17, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter and singer for the San Francisco-based punk rock band The Avengers. She was born in L.A. and raised in Seattle. In the mid-1970s she attended Fairhaven College in Bellingham, Washington. She became known for telling people in the dorm to turn down their music. - Laurie Johnson
Lawrence Reginald Ward ('Laurie') Johnson (born February 17, 1927, in Hampstead, England) is a British film and television composer, and bandleader. Johnson studied at the Royal College of Music in London, and spent four years in the Coldstream Guards moving to the entertainment industry in the 1950s. - Tom Palmer
Tom Palmer is a popular comics artist. The bulk of his work has been for Marvel Comics, where he has been an inker since the 1960s. Over his career he has inked hundreds of comic books, including well over 100 issues of The Avengers, among other titles. He has been recognized for his work with the 1969 Alley Award for Best Inking Artist. - Joe Sinnott
Joe Sinnott (born October 16, 1926, Saugerties, New York, United States) is an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best-known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' "The Fantastic Four", from 1965 to 1981 (with a brief return in the late 1980s), initially over the pencils of industry legend Jack Kirby. Years before, he'd inked Kirby's "Fantastic Four" #5, the issue introducing Dr. Doom, … - Mother
"Mother" is the codename given to the wheelchair-bound male British government official who gives orders to John Steed and Tara King in the last season of the British TV series The Avengers. In the television series, the character of "Mother" is portrayed by Patrick Newell; in the movie, he is portrayed by Jim Broadbent. - Ian Hendry
Ian Hendry (January 13, 1931-December 24, 1984) was an English film and television actor best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s. Hendry was born in Ipswich. He was educated at Culford School, Suffolk. Hendry's film and TV career began in 1959 and within a year he had landed the lead role of Dr. Geoffrey Brent in the crime series "Police Surgeon". - John Lee
John Lee (born 31 March 1928, died 21 December 2000) was an Australian actor. He is remembered for his roles on television, including Andrew Reynolds in "Prisoner" and Philip Stewart in "Return to Eden". He also worked in the United Kingdom throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in series such as "The Avengers", "The Troubleshooters", "Doomwatch", "Warship", "Survivors" and "Wilde Alliance". - Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 - 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and Mike Gambit in "The New Avengers". - Jeremiah S. Chechik
Jeremiah S. Chechik (born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is the director of such films as "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", "Diabolique" and "The Avengers". Chechik was nominated for Worst Director at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards for "The Avengers" but lost to Gus Van Sant for his remake of "Psycho". - Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson was a notable American comic book illustrator in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. His work appeared in The Avengers, Captain America, Captain Britain, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, Hulk, Iron Man, Marvel Two-In-One, Power Man, The Thing, and Wolfpack. - Bob Brown
Bob Brown (died 1977) was an American comic book artist with an extensive career from the early 1940s through the 1970s. With writers Edmond Hamilton and Gardner Fox, Brown created the DC Comics hero Space Ranger, drawing the character's complete run from his deubt in the try-out comic "Showcase" #15 (Aug 1958) through "Mystery in Space #103 (July 1965). Brown's work appeared in DC's "Action Comics", "The Brave and the Bold", … - Patrick Newell
Patrick David Newell (born Hadleigh, Suffolk, March 27 1932 - July 22 1988) was a British actor known for his large size. It is reputed he gained weight as a deliberate attempt to boost his career, marking him out for some niche roles. It has been written that his entry in "Who's Who On Television" in the late 1970s, Newell described himself as "Actor with a weight problem--the more he diets, … - Sydney Newman
Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917-October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Initially a film editor with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Newman later moved into television with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he began his long association with drama. - Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes (born 1 January 1977 in London) is an English actress, best known for her role as Zoe Reynolds in the BBC One drama series "Spooks" (2002-2004). She has also appeared in a number of other television dramas, including Dennis Potter's "Karaoke" (BBC One / Channel 4, 1995), and "Othello" (ITV, 2001). - Robert Fuest
Robert Fuest (born in 1927 in London) is an English film director, screenwriter, and production designer who has worked mostly in the horror, fantasy and suspense genres. Fuest's most highly praised and popular films, which feature strong black comedy undertones, include perennial cult favorites "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" (1971), "Dr. Phibes Rises Again" (1972), and "The Final Programme" (aka "The Last Days of Man on Earth") (1973). - Julie Stevens
Julie Stevens (born 20 December 1936) is a British actress.She is best known in Britain for her appearances on children's television. She married actor John White in 1961. Stevens was born in Prestwich, England, and before starting in television she trained as a nurse. She was a regular on "Play School" and "Playaway" with Brian Cant and provided vocals for the Schools Television series "Look and Read". During the 1962-63 season she played Venus Smith, … - Peter Wyngarde
Peter Paul Wyngarde is a British actor best known for playing the character Jason King in two television series in the late 1960s early 1970s: "Department S" (1969–70) and "Jason King" (1971–72). He was born in Marseille, France, the son of an English father and a French mother. His father worked for the British Diplomatic Service, and as a result his childhood was spent in a number of different countries. In 1941, while his parents were away in India, … - Roy Ward Baker
Roy Ward Baker is an English film director born in London on 19 December 1916. His best known film is "A Night to Remember" which won a Golden Globe for best foreign English language film in 1959. His later career was varied, and included many horror films and television shows. Baker's early career, from 1934 to 1939, was spent working for Gainsborough Pictures, a British film production company based in Islington, North London, famous for its prestige productions. - Ray Austin
Ray Austin (December 5 1932-) is a British television director. He has worked on episodes as a director for some 50 different television series between 1968 and 1998. He started his career as a stunt man and stunt coordinator between 1965 and 1967 most notably for 50 episodes of "The Avengers" in 1965, but became gradually involved as a director for TV then film. Perhaps due to his background as a stuntman, … - Peter Bowles
ḷPeter Bowles is an English actor. He became famous in the late 1970s and 1980s for portraying upper class characters typically caught in hilarious situations. He starred in television comedies including "Only When I Laugh", "To the Manor Born", "The Irish R.M.", "The Bounder", and "Perfect Scoundrels". Bowles also appeared as a regular in the first few series of "Rumpole of the Bailey" as Guthrie Featherstone, QC, MP, … - Albert Fennell
Albert Fennell (b Chiswick 1920-1988) was a British film and television producer. Best known for his work on the 1960s spy drama "The Avengers" with Brian Clemens, Fennell also produced (with Clemens) its follow-up, "The New Avengers" and "The Professionals". Both "The New Avengers" and "The Professionals" were made by Mark One Productions, a company Fennell established with Clemens and composer Laurie Johnson. - Jerry Weintraub
Jerry Weintraub (born September 26, 1937) is a film producer. Born in the Bronx, his credits include "Nashville", "Diner", "The Karate Kid", and the 2001 remake of "Ocean's Eleven". He was also responsible for the 1998 movie adaptation of the classic British TV series "The Avengers". He has also managed the careers of such musical acts as Cuba Gooding, Sr. and the Main Ingredient, The Carpenters, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. - Clive Dunn
Clive Dunn OBE (born 9 January 1920) is a retired English actor, singer and entertainer best known for his role as Lance-Corporal Jack Jones in the BBC sitcom, "Dad's Army". Born in London, a cousin of actress Gretchen Franklin, Dunn played small film roles from the 1930s onwards. After a break for service in the army in World War II, in the course of which he spent four years in prisoner-of-war camps and labour camps in Austria, … - Dennis Spooner
Dennis Spooner (born 1 December, 1932 in Tottenham London; died 20 September, 1986) was an English television scriptwriter, known for his ability to write to order if necessary, who created the classic British television series "Man in a Suitcase", "The Champions", "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" and "The Adventurer", and co-created "Department S", as well as writing for others including "The Avengers", "Fireball XL5", … - Ingrid Hafner
Ingrid Hafner is a British actress, best remembered for her role as Carol Wilson in the first season of the television series "The Avengers". She had previously played Amanda Gibbs opposite Ian Hendry in the series "Police Surgeon". - Alan Weiss
Alan Weiss is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work on Warlock, The Avengers, Captain America and Spider-Man. He is the creator, writer and artist of Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool for Marvel Comics' Epic Illustrated and also creator, co-writer and artist of War Dancer for Defiant Comics. - Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks (born 10 May 1935 in East Ham, London) is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s. After leaving school, Dicks studied English at Downing College, Cambridge, and later did two years of National Service in the British Army. Following his discharge from the armed forces, he worked for five years as an advertising copywriter, … - Clifford Evans
Clifford Evans (February 17, 1912 - June 9, 1985) was a Welsh actor. Evans played many parts in British films of the 1930s, before starring in the film The Foreman Went to France in 1942. His most well-known later film roles were the two he played for Hammer Studios: Don Alfredo Carledo in "The Curse of the Werewolf" (1961) and the inebriated vampire-hunter, Professor Zimmer, in "The Kiss of the Vampire" (1962). - 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", … - Andrew Keir
Andrew Keir (April 3, 1926 - October 5, 1997) was a Scottish actor, who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s. He was also active in television, and particularly in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s. He is most remembered for starring as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Hammer's film version of "Quatermass and the Pit" (1967).
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