Lew Grade, Baron Grade (1906–1998) by Cornel Lucas, 1996 © Cornel Lucas; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Peter Waymark
Grade, Lew, Baron Grade (1906–1998), theatrical agent, television executive, and film producer, was born Louis Winogradsky on 25 December 1906 at Tokmak, near Odessa, Ukraine, the eldest of four children, three boys and a girl, of Isaac Winogradsky (c.1879–1935), and his wife, ...
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Stella Richman (1922–2002) by Mayotte Magnus, 1977 © Mayotte Magnus; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Richman, Stella (1922–2002), actress and television producer and executive, was born at 7 Tredegar Square, Mile End, London, on 9 November 1922, the daughter of Jacob Richman, leather merchant, and his wife, Leoni, née Jgelnik, both of eastern European Jewish descent. After attending ...
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Waldman, Ronald Hartley (1914–1978), television executive, was born at 32 Gore Road, South Hackney, London, on 13 May 1914, the second of three sons of Michael Ernest Waldman, chief clerk with a firm of wholesale merchants supplying mineral water, and his wife, Bloema Greenberg...
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Young, Stuart (1934–1986), accountant and broadcasting executive, was born on 23 April 1934 at home in Stamford Hill, London, the younger child and younger son of Joseph Young, who was in the flour business, and his wife, Rebecca (Betty) Sterling. The family were religious Jews and his mother made ...
