Allen, Dave [real name David Edward John Archer Cullen Tynan-O'Mahony] (1936–2005), comedian, was born on 6 July 1936 at Merrion House, Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, the youngest of three sons of (Gerard John) Cullen Tynan-O'Mahony (b. 1900), journalist and managing editor of the ...
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Allen, Dave [real name David Edward John Archer Cullen Tynan-O'Mahony] (1936–2005), comedian
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Allen, Dave (1936–2005)
Maker: Trevor Leighton
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Dave Allen (1936–2005) by Trevor Leighton, 1999 Camera Press, London
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Allen, James John [Jim] (1926–1999), playwright and scriptwriter
Jason Tomes
Allen, James John [Jim] (1926–1999), playwright and scriptwriter, was born on 7 October 1926 at 31 Higher Duke Street, Miles Platting, Manchester, the second child of John (Jack) Allen, a railway labourer, and his wife, Catherine (Kitty) Lee. The family was of Irish descent. After attending local Roman Catholic schools, ...
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Andrews, Eamonn (1922–1987)
Maker: Godfrey Argent
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Eamonn Andrews (1922–1987) by Godfrey Argent, 1970 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Andrews, Eamonn (1922–1987), radio and television broadcaster
Malcolm Morris
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Andrews, Eamonn (1922–1987), radio and television broadcaster, was born on 19 December 1922 at 11 Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the second of five children and elder son of William Andrews, carpenter, and his wife, Margaret Farrell. He was educated at a Dublin convent and the ...
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Badel, Alan Fernand (1923–1982)
Maker: Vivienne
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Alan Fernand Badel (1923–1982) by Vivienne, 1950s © Vivienne; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Badel, Alan Fernand (1923–1982), actor and theatre producer
Donald Roy
Badel, Alan Fernand (1923–1982), actor and theatre producer, was born in Rusholme, Manchester, on 11 September 1923, the son of Auguste Firman Joseph Badel (1891–1962), a shipping clerk and office manager of French birth, and his wife of Huguenot descent, Elizabeth Olive Till (...
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Barron, Brian Munro (1940–2009)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Brian Munro Barron (1940–2009) by unknown photographer, 1980 © UPPA / Photoshot
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Barron, Brian Munro (1940–2009), journalist and broadcaster
Michael Leapman
Barron, Brian Munro (1940–2009), journalist and broadcaster, was born on 28 April 1940 at Bristol Maternity Hospital, 50 Southwell Street, Clifton, Bristol, the son of Albert Barron, a clerk with an aircraft company, and his wife, Norah Bernadette, née Morgan. At the time of his birth registration his parents lived at ...
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Barrymore, Lionel [real name Lionel Blyth] (1878–1954), actor
Mark Glancy
Barrymore, Lionel [real name Lionel Blyth] (1878–1954), actor, was born on 28 April 1878 at 119 North Nine Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His father was known as the actor Maurice Barrymore (1847–1905), but he had been born as Herbert Blyth to British parents who were living in ...
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Barrymore, Lionel (1878–1954)
Maker: Clarence Sinclair Bull
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Lionel Barrymore (1878–1954) by Clarence Sinclair Bull, c. 1935 Getty Images – Clarence Sinclair Bull
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Beeston [Hutchinson], Christopher (1579/80–1638), actor and theatre impresario
Andrew Gurr
Beeston [Hutchinson], Christopher (1579/80–1638), actor and theatre impresario, gave his age as forty-three in a court case in October 1623. Though Beeston became probably the most potent and influential theatre entrepreneur through the first forty years of the seventeenth century, he came into the new world of ...
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Beeston [Hutchinson], William (1610/11?–1682), theatre impresario and actor
Andrew Gurr
Beeston [Hutchinson], William (1610/11
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Bellew, Harold Kyrle (1855–1911), actor
J. Parker
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Bellew, Harold Kyrle (1855–1911), actor, the youngest son of John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew (1823–1874), popular preacher and public reader, and his first wife, Eva Money, was born at Prescot, Lancashire, on 28 March 1855. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster...
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Bellew [formerly Higgin], John Chippendall Montesquieu (1823–1874), popular preacher and public reader
Rosemary Mitchell
Bellew [formerly Higgin], John Chippendall Montesquieu (1823–1874), popular preacher and public reader, was born at Lancaster on 3 August 1823. He was the only child of an infantry officer, Captain Robert Higgin (1792–1853) of the 12th regiment, who had married in ...
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Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778–1823)
Maker: Maxim Gauci
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Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778–1823), performing artist and Egyptologist
Peta Rée
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778–1823), performing artist and Egyptologist, was born on 5 November 1778 in Padua, the son of a barber, Giacomo Belzoni, and his wife, Teresa. He went to Rome aged sixteen to prepare himself for monastic orders; he claimed also to have studied hydraulics. The French invasion of ...
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Bing, Sir Rudolf Franz Joseph (1902–1997), opera manager
Elizabeth Forbes
Bing, Sir Rudolf Franz Joseph (1902–1997), opera manager, was born in Vienna on 9 January 1902, the son of Ernst Hoenigsvald Bing, head of the Austro-Hungarian Steel and Iron Trust, and his wife, Stefanie. The youngest of four children, he left school at the age of sixteen. He trained his attractive light baritone voice, but did not consider becoming a professional. In 1919 he obtained a job with the Viennese booksellers ...
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Bing, Sir Rudolf Franz Joseph (1902–1997)
Maker: Lotte Meitner-Graf
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Sir Rudolf Franz Joseph Bing (1902–1997) by Lotte Meitner-Graf © Lotte Meitner-Graf
