Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (December 20 1916 - April 23 1991) was an Australian writer, whose World War II books were turned into popular movies. Educated at North Sydney Boys' High School, before World War II, Brickhill worked as a journalist. During the war, he was a fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force.

Richard Todd (born June 11, 1919) is a British actor.

Michael Joseph Anderson (born January 30, 1920) is an English film director. Anderson was born into a theatrical family. His parents were the actors Lawrence and Beatrice Anderson. His great-aunt was Mary Anderson of Louisville, Kentucky who became one of the first American Shakespearian actresses and the Mary Anderson Theatre in Louisville was dedicated to her. After serving in the Second World War, he first developed his career in British films, …

Christian Rivers is a Academy Award and BAFTA winning New Zealand visual effects art director and filmmaker. He first met Peter Jackson as a 17 year old and worked with him on storyboarding "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. He also cameos in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" as a soldier of Gondor. He is set to make his directorial debut with a remake of "The Dam Busters".

Patrick Barr (born February 13, 1908 - August 29, 1985) was a British actor born in Akola, India. British actor Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with "The Merry Men of Sherwood" (1932). He spent the 1930s playing various beneficient authority figures and "reliable friend" types, picking up where he left off in 1946 after six years of military service. In the early 1950s, he began working in British television, …

Bill Kerr (born 1922) is an Australian film and television actor. He was born into a performing arts family in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He began working as a child actor in depression era Australia, taking his first major role in "The Silence of Dean Maitland", one of Australia's first talking films. After serving in the Second World War, Kerr moved to England to further his acting career, …

Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 - 19 October 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s through to the 1970s. Huntley, also appeared in the ITV period drama "Upstairs, Downstairs" as the family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon. Born in Birmingham in 1904, Huntley was often cast as supercilious bureaucrats or other authority figures, and his many film appearances included "The Way Ahead", "I See a Dark Stranger", …

Nigel Stock (born 21 September 1919 in Malta - 23 June 1986). was a British actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who played major character roles in many films and television dramas.

Richard Leech (November 24 1922- March 24 2004) was an accomplished actor born in Dublin, Ireland. He was also a doctor before building a successful career in film and television. His numerous film credits include "The Dam Busters" (1955), "Night of the Demon", "Tunes of Glory", "Ice-Cold in Alex", "Young Winston" (1972), "Gandhi" (1982) and the acclaimed "The Shooting Party".

Harold Goodwin (October 22, 1917 - June 3, 2004) was a British actor born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England. Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years. He appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s and 1960s, usually playing 'flat cap' wearing working class characters from Northern England or low ranks in the military. He had significant parts in the war films "The Dam Busters" (playing Guy Gibson's batman), …

Ewen Solon (born 7 September 1917-died 7 July 1985) is a New Zealand-born actor, who has worked extensively in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Film credits include: "The Dam Busters", "Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue", "1984", "Robbery Under Arms", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Stranglers of Bombay", "The Terror of the Tongs", "The Curse of the Werewolf" and "The Spaceman and King Arthur".