Adams, (Wilfred) Robert (c. 1900–1965), actor, was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, the son of Robert Adams, boat builder. He was educated at St Stephen's Scots School, later St Joseph's Intermediate. In 1920 he won a government scholarship to be trained as a teacher at ...
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Adams, (Wilfred) Robert (c. 1900–1965), actor
Stephen Bourne
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Ashcroft, Dame Edith Margaret Emily [Peggy] (1907–1991), actress
Michael Billington
Ashcroft, Dame Edith Margaret Emily [Peggy] (1907–1991), actress, was born on 22 December 1907 in Croydon, Surrey, the second of two children of William Worsley Ashcroft (1878–1918), a land agent, and his wife, Violetta Maud, née Bernheim (1874–1926), a keen amateur actress of Danish and German-Jewish descent. Known from childhood as ...
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Beaton, Norman Lugard (1934–1994), actor
Stephen Bourne
Beaton, Norman Lugard (1934–1994), actor, was born on 31 October 1934 in Georgetown, British Guiana, the son of William Solomon Beaton (d. 1983), civil servant, and his wife, Ada, née Mackintosh (d. 1962). He was educated at St Stephen's School and ...
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Bellingham, Lynda [née Meredith Lee Hughes] (1948–2014), actress, broadcaster, and writer
Gilli Bush-Bailey
Bellingham, Lynda [née Meredith Lee Hughes] (1948–2014), actress, broadcaster, and writer, was born on 31 May 1948 in Montreal, Canada, the daughter of Carl Seymour Hutton (1896/7–1959) and Marjorie Bond, née Hughes (1917–2012). At the age of four months she was adopted by an English couple, Capt. ...
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Blackman, Honor (1925–2020), actress
Brian McFarlane
Blackman, Honor (1925–2020), actress, was born at 200 Cumberland Road, Canning Town, London, on 22 August 1925, the third of four children of Frederick Thomas Blackman (1891–1961), a statistician for HM customs and excise, and his wife, (Edith) Eliza, née Stokes...
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Brambell, (Henry) Wilfrid (1912–1985), actor
David Parkinson
Brambell, (Henry) Wilfrid (1912–1985), actor, was born on 22 March 1912 at 6 Edenvale Road, Rathgar, co. Dublin, one of at least two sons of Henry Lytton Brambell, a cashier at the Guinness brewery, and his wife, Edith Marks (b. c.1879)...
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Briers, Richard David (1934–2013), actor
Jonathan Croall
Briers, Richard David (1934–2013), actor, was born on 14 January 1934 at the Nelson Hospital in Merton, south London, the elder child (his sister, Jane, was born in 1939) of Joseph Benjamin Briers (1901–1980), a 'commission agent' or bookmaker, and Morna Phyllis Richardson (1909–1992)...
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Brown, Janet McLuckie (1923–2011), actress and impressionist
Ian Brown
Brown, Janet McLuckie (1923–2011), actress and impressionist, was born on 14 December 1923 at 26 Hamilton Road, Rutherglen, near Glasgow, the daughter of Andrew Brown, a sheet-iron worker in the Clyde shipyards, and his wife, Helen McLuckie, née Russell. She was educated at ...
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Calvert, Phyllis [real name Phyllis Hannah Bickle] (1915–2002), actress
Verena Wright
Calvert, Phyllis [real name Phyllis Hannah Bickle] (1915–2002), actress, was born on 18 February 1915 at 3 Wellington Street, Chelsea, London, the second of the two children (both daughters) of Frederick Bickle, blacksmith, and his wife, Annie, née Williams. By her own account a '...
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Cameron, Earlston Jewett [Earl] (1917–2020), actor
Stephen Bourne
Cameron, Earlston Jewett [Earl] (1917–2020), actor, was born on 8 August 1917 in Pembroke, Bermuda, the youngest of six children of Arthur Jewett Cameron (d. 1922), a stonemason, and his wife, Edith. Brought up on Princess Street, Hamilton, he left the island's ...
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Corbett, Harry [known as Harry H. Corbett] (1925–1982), actor
Colin Sell
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Corbett, Harry [known as Harry H. Corbett] (1925–1982), actor, was born in Rangoon, Burma, on 28 February 1925, the youngest of seven children of George Corbett (1885/6–1943), a staff sergeant in the South Staffordshire regiment stationed in Burma, and his wife, Caroline Emily, ...
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Cushing, Peter Wilton (1913–1994), actor
David Parkinson
Cushing, Peter Wilton (1913–1994), actor, was born at Normandy, Godstone Road, Kenley, Surrey, on 26 May 1913, the second son of George Edward Cushing (1881–1956), quantity surveyor, and his wife, Nellie Maria, née King (1880–1961). His grandfather Henry Cushing had been a member of ...
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Davies, John Howard (1939–2011), actor and television producer and director
Christopher Webber
Davies, John Howard (1939–2011), actor and television producer and director, was born on 9 March 1939 at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, the elder son of John Bernard Henry Leslie (Jack) Davies [see below], scriptwriter, and his wife, Dorothy Leonora, née...
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Denham, (William) Maurice (1909–2002), actor
Alex Jennings
Denham, (William) Maurice (1909–2002), actor, was born on 23 December 1909 at 29 Albemarle Road, Beckenham, Kent, the son of Norman Denham, dentist, and his wife, (Eleanor) Winifred, née Lillico. He was educated at the Abbey School, where he made his stage début at the age of five as the Spirit of 1917, and at ...
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Dors [married names Hamilton, Dawson, Lake], Diana [real name Diana Mary Fluck] (1931–1984), actress
Peter Waymark
Dors [married names Hamilton, Dawson, Lake], Diana [real name Diana Mary Fluck] (1931–1984), actress, was born on 23 October 1931 in Swindon, Wiltshire, the only child of Albert Edward Sidney Fluck (1893–1963) of Swindon, a railway clerk and former army captain, and his wife, ...
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Drake, Charles Edward [Charlie] (1925–2006), actor and comedian
Andrew H. Spicer
Drake, Charles Edward [Charlie] (1925–2006), actor and comedian, was born Charles Edward Springall on 19 June 1925 at 185 Westmoreland Road, Walworth, London, the second child in the family of three sons and three daughters of William Springall, newspaper vendor, and his wife, ...
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Dunn, Robert Bertram [performing name Clive] (1920–2012), actor
Graham McCann
Dunn, Robert Bertram [performing name Clive] (1920–2012), actor, was born on 9 January 1920 at 140 Brixton Road, Lambeth, London, the only child of Robert Gladstone (Bobby) Dunn (1885–1966), a comic singer and theatrical agent, and his wife, Constance Ethel, née Franklin (1889–1984)...
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Elliott, Denholm Mitchell (1922–1992), actor
David Parkinson
Elliott, Denholm Mitchell (1922–1992), actor, was born on 31 May 1922 at 48 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London, the second son of Myles Layman Farr Elliott (d. 1933), barrister, and his wife, Nina, née Mitchell (d. 1966), the daughter of an Ayrshire...
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Emery, Richard Gilbert [Dick] (1915–1983), comedian
Barry Took
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Emery, Richard Gilbert [Dick] (1915–1983), comedian, was born on 19 February 1915 at University College Hospital in St Pancras, London, the only child of Laurence Cuthbert Emery, an actor, and his wife, Bertha Gilbert Callen, a former Gaiety girl. During most of Dick Emery's...
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Feldman, Martin Alan [Marty] (1934–1982), comedian and scriptwriter
Barry Took
Feldman, Martin Alan [Marty] (1934–1982), comedian and scriptwriter, was born on 8 July 1934 at University College Hospital, London, the elder of the two children of Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer of Islington, and his wife, Cecilia (Cissie), née Crook. He had a sister, ...