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- William Hartnell was born on 8 January 1908, just south of St. Pancras railway station in London. In press materials in the 1940s he claimed that his father was a farmer and later a stockbroker; it turns out that he had actually been born out of wedlock, as his biography "Who's There?" states.
At age 16 he was adopted by Hugh Blaker, a well-known art connoisseur, who helped him to get a job with Sir Frank Benson's Shakespearean Company. He started as a general dogsbody--call-boy, assistant stage manager, property master and assistant lighting director--but was occasionally allowed to play small walk-on parts. Two years later he left Benson's group and went off on tour, working for a number of different theatre companies about Britain. He became known as an actor of farce and understudied renowned performers such as Lawrence Grossmith, Ernest Truex, Bud Flanagan and Charles Heslop. He played repertory in Richmond, Harrogate, Leeds and Sheffield and had a successful run as the lead in a touring production of "Charley's Aunt." He also toured Canada in 1928-29, acquiring much valuable experience.
On his return to England, Hartnell married actress Heather McIntyre. He starred in such films as I'm an Explosive (1933), The Way Ahead (1944), Strawberry Roan (1944), The Agitator (1945), Query (1945) and Appointment with Crime (1946).
His memorable performance on the television series The Army Game (1957) and the movie This Sporting Life (1963) led to him being cast as the Doctor on Doctor Who (1963), for which he is best remembered. His son-in-law is agent Terry Carney. His granddaughter is Jessica Carney (real name Judith Carney), who authored a biography of her grandfather, "Who's There?", in 1996. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Murray Melvin was born on 10 August 1932 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Phantom of the Opera (2004), A Taste of Honey (1961) and Barry Lyndon (1975). He died on 14 April 2023 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- Vas Blackwood was born on 19 October 1962 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Creep (2004) and Mean Machine (2001).
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Sarah Greene was born on 24 October 1957 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), Doctor Who (1963) and Aladdin and the Forty Thieves (1984). She was previously married to Mike Smith.- Actor
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Perry Benson was born on 9 April 1961 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sid and Nancy (1986), This Is England (2006) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988).- Daniel Caltagirone was born on 18 June 1972 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), The Pianist (2002) and The Beach (2000). He was previously married to Melanie Sykes.
- André Morell was born on 20 August 1909 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Ben-Hur (1959), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and The Message (1976). He was married to Joan Greenwood. He died on 28 November 1978 in London, England, UK.
- Known for her small yet earthy Brit portrayals on film, Eleanor Summerfield was born in London on March 7, 1921, initially trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1937). The hard-looking, blue-eyed blonde began in films in 1947 but created some waves first on stage opposite Cicely Courtneidge in "Her Excellency" at the London Hippodrome in 1949. She followed that with a top role in a rather mediocre musical entitled "Golden City." Musicals would be a strong suit for her in the ensuing years, including a more glamorous role in "When in Rome" (1959) alongside June Laverick. Summerfield made her last West End musical in 1974 in a show based on the cartoon characters of Osbert Lancaster. A popular radio actress and a regular on BBC Radio Four panel show "Many a Slip," she positively shone on TV in a number of comedy series as she entered her matronly years. She had the difficult task of replacing Dora Bryan in the established program "Our Dora" when Bryan abruptly left the series after the sudden death of her first child. Soon retitled My Wife's Sister (1956), the show, and Summerfield, succeeded quite well. During her five-decade career, she added bite to a number of films, often raucous comedies, including Laughter in Paradise (1951), Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop (1953), Dentist in the Chair (1960), On the Fiddle (1961) and Some Will, Some Won't (1970), which was a remake of the earlier film Laughter in Paradise (1951). Wed to actor Leonard Sachs in 1947, they produced two sons; one son, Robin Sachs, became an actor in his own right. Her husband died in 1990, and Summerfield followed him a decade later on July 13, 2001, in London. She was 80.
- Ross Boatman was born on 3 March 1964 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Cassandra's Dream (2007), Penelope (2006) and Paddington (2014).
- Doreen Tracey was born on 3 April 1943 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956), Annette (1958) and The Donna Reed Show (1958). She was married to Robert A Washburn. She died on 10 January 2018 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
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Martha Cope was born in 1970 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Alfie (2004), Mile High (2003) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).- Hilda Fenemore was born on 22 April 1914 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Chance of a Lifetime (1950), The Wallet (1952) and Carry on Constable (1960). She was married to Rex Edwards. She died on 13 April 2004 in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- Stewart Bevan was born 10th March 1948 and died aged 73 after a short illness 20th February 2022.
He featured in the long-running series Doctor Who, in 1973's The Green Death, remembered fondly by viewers as "the one with the giant maggots". The departure of popular companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) called for someone special to lure her away from third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, and to this end the charismatic Welsh eco-warrior Professor Clifford Jones was conceived.
Michael Briant, the director, was having trouble casting this part but was reluctant to interview Bevan because he was Manning's fiance at the time. He finally relented and discovered that Bevan was exactly what he was looking for: handsome and with the requisite crusading zeal and lightness of touch.
Bevan's obvious rapport with Manning also helped to make her departure one of the series' most memorably tear-jerking. Bevan himself was an empathic anti-capitalist vegetarian, guitar player and writer of poetry - all of which contributed to making Jones a believable character.
Although he and Manning had split up in 1976 he reunited with her to play Cliff in a couple of short films used as trailers for the 2019 and 2020 Blu-ray releases of Pertwee's Doctor Who episodes and for a retrospective documentary, Keeping Up With the Joneses (2019).
Stewart was born in St Pancras, central London, to a canteen manager, Gwen (nee Snow), and truck driver, Ray Bevan, who became the personal driver to the celebrity hairdresser Raymond Bessone (aka Mr Teasy Weasy), while Gwen became his housekeeper.
Raised in Southall, Middlesex, Stewart walked out of his school aged 15 after he was caned for standing up for a Sikh classmate. Working at Pierre Cardin's London fashion store he attended amateur dramatics classes and was emboldened when he won an award for playing Alec in Noël Coward's Still Life at a drama festival held at the Questors theatre in 1964, and so enrolled at the Corona theatre school.
On only his second day there he auditioned to play a schoolboy in the landmark Sidney Poitier film To Sir, With Love (1966) and in 1967 worked as a dancer with Jayne Mansfield when she toured the UK in cabaret. He was soon getting big-screen credits - including Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969), the horror films Burke & Hare and The Flesh and Blood Show (both 1972), Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973), The Ghoul (1975), and the John Wayne vehicle Brannigan (1975).
After Doctor Who he appeared in many popular drama series - from Public Eye (1975) to Silent Witness (1997) via Shoestring (three episodes, all 1979), Blake's 7 (1980) and The House of Elliot (1994).
He had a stint in the soap opera Emmerdale (1977, then called Emmerdale Farm) as Ray Oswell, caught in a storm and seeking help with his pregnant wife, played by Virginia Moore. He and Virginia fell in love off-screen and they remained together for the rest of his life, settling in Suffolk.
He also featured in Douglas Camfield's all-star TV version of Ivanhoe (1982) and Noel's House Party (1993-94) - which required sharp improvisational skills in order to pull off elaborate pranks on unsuspecting victims. He was also a familiar face on TV adverts - in the 80s for Fairy Liquid and the 90s for Kellogg's Bran Flakes.
His theatre highlights were his West End debut in the first production of Conduct Unbecoming (Queen's theatre, 1969-70), taking the lead role when the play toured the UK in 1971, and touring with David Soul in Ira Levin's Deathtrap in 2002. His last film role came in the Jack Thorne-scripted The Scouting Book for Boys (2009).
He is survived by Virginia and their daughters, Coral Bevan and Wendy Bevan. His three sisters predeceased him. - Producer
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Daisy Goodwin was born on 19 December 1961 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She is a producer and writer, known for Victoria (2016), Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From (1989) and House Doctor (1998). She is married to Marcus Wilford. They have two children.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Attended Christ Church C of E school, Finchley, North London, leaving in 1992. Graduated from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, with a degree in Radio, Film and Television. Worked briefly as a care assistant in Dover, Kent. Worked for the BBC in Outside Broadcasts, based in Acton. Lived in a village in North Hertfordshire between 1998 and 2001. Got married in 1999. Since August 2001, has lived in a village on the shore of Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire, UK. Works as a Video Tape Operator. His job has taken him to Greece, Canada and Germany, and involves recording and replaying things, and doing slow motion replays on sporting events such as Athletics and Wimbledon. Has a strange and erratic lifestyle, governed by his job's long and unpredictable hours.- Actress
- Make-Up Department
Kim Benson was born on 3 July 1965 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for In Fabric (2018), 2point4 Children (1991) and Miss the Kiss. She was previously married to Andrew Ian Dodge.- Writer
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- Producer
Ben Aaronovitch's first work for television was the Doctor Who (1963) story, "Remembrance of the Daleks". He had been put in touch with Andrew Cartmel by a BBC script editor, Caroline Oulton, and he produced a story idea called "Nightfall" on spec before being commissioned for the Dalek story. Aaronovitch also scripted "Battlefield" for the twenty-sixth season of Doctor Who (1963). Aaronovitch has gone on to write for Casualty (1986) and also wrote, with Cartmel, an initial script for the 1989 Doctor Who (1963) stage play, "The Ultimate Adventure". More recently he scripted thirteen episodes of the BSB series Jupiter Moon (1990) and has written several novels in Virgin Publishing's "Doctor Who: The New Adventures" range.- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Producer
David Charap was born on 26 September 1965 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an editor and producer, known for I Am... (2019), Rok dábla (2002) and Nemesis (2020).- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Stefan Gates was born on 19 September 1967 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Poldark (1975), My Son, My Son (1979) and Supernatural (1977).- Writer
- Actor
Probably best known for his radio shows of the 1960s. "Beyond Our Ken" and "Round the Horne" broke away from staid formulaic comedy shows. The anarchic and risqué sketches pushed censorship to the limits, the collection of writers and performers trained here paved the way to let TV audiences see Monty Python and its worthy, or less worthy, successors. Thanks to Horne, Barry Took and Marty Feldman developed a writing style that brought Britain many of its best film and TV comedies, whilst the comedic timing of Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Kenneth Williams were honed to perfection. His sudden death in 1969 closed a chapter on British Comedy, and he is still sorely missed.- Barry Sheene was born on 11 September 1950 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Space Riders (1984), MotoGP (1949) and Joey Dunlop 1952-2000 (1997). He was married to Stephanie McLean. He died on 10 March 2003 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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John Lanzer was born in 1946 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was a set decorator, known for The Saint (1997), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Judge Dredd (1995). He died on 3 February 2018 in Isleworth, Greater London, England, UK.- Director
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- Actor
W.P. Kellino was born on 30 November 1873 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Poisoned Diamond (1933), Lend Me Your Wife (1935) and The Mating of Marcus (1924). He was married to Blanche Kellino. He died on 31 December 1957 in Edgware, Middlesex, England, UK.- Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour politician and the Leader of the Labour Party. Born in London, Miliband is the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and the late Marxist intellectual Ralph Miliband (a Brussels native whose parents were from Warsaw), who fled Belgium during World War II and the younger brother of David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary whom he also contested and narrowly defeated in the 2010 Labour Leadership contest. Together the two were the first siblings to simultaneously sit in the British Cabinet since Edward, Lord Stanley and his brother Oliver in 1938.
Started as a violinist during his high school days at a comprehensive school and journalism at a young age. Known for his his deep voice, keen sense of pleasing personality, genuine personality and his left winged political positions.
As a teenager he reviewed films and plays on LBC Radio's Young London programme as one of its "Three O'Clock Reviewers", and worked as an intern to Tony Benn. Miliband was educated at the state Haverstock Comprehensive School in the Chalk Farm area of North London - where he became a violinist. After completing his A Levels, he read PPE at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford, gaining a BA, followed by the London School of Economics (LSE), where he studied Ecomonics and obtained an MSc. Before being famous, becoming first a Labour Party reseacher and rising to become of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants, being appointed Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers. He has been the Member of Parliament(MP) for Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Gordon Brown.
This brown-eyed politician appeared in several interviews and political shows as an MP. This former violinist, TV journalist, former researcher, former adviser and a former cabinet member, soon became one of most influential left wing politicians landing a prestigious debates and campaigns during Labour Party leadership election in 2010 won him a lot of young people.
This gifted-talented politician burst upon the world stage when his competitive personality, stature, commanding confidence, striking views, poise and commanding intelligence won him the Leader of the Labour Party with the support of 50.654% of the electoral college. He has graced numerous interviews and documentary films worldwide.
Miliband was elected the Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North in the 2005 general election. As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown appointed Miliband as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office in his first Cabinet on 28 June 2007. Miliband was subsequently promoted to the post of Secretary of State at the newly-created Department of Energy and Climate Change, a position he held from 3 October 2008 to 11 May 2010.
His previous partner was former Blair aide Liz Lloyd, who went to school in Guildford with his former Cabinet colleague James Purnell, but the had separated by October 1998. His current partner
is Justine Thornton, a former child actress and a Cambridge-educated barrister. They met in 2004, and live together in North London - where he grew up. They have one son, Daniel. He was recently reunited with one of his family relatives in Moscow. Was a huge supporter for Boston Red Sox and Leeds United. - Composer
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Leading composer-conductor of familiar orchestral music and a famed British organist. Born of Russian parents at 27 Tottenham Court in London, his father, Morris Torchinsky, was a professional trombonist and encouraged his son to excel. Sidney studied piano at the Blackheath Conservatoire, then became accompanist to violinist Albert Sandler and an organist at cinemas including the Regal, Marble Arch, Edmonton, the Regal Kingston, and finally the new Gaumont State in 1937, making many records, broadcasts and personal appearances. He joined the Royal Air Force as an air gunner in 1940 and was stationed near Blackpool where he continued to record at the Opera House. Subsequently he was commissioned as an RAF Squadron Leader and conducted the RAF Concert Orchestra where his talents for composing and orchestral arranging were honed. At about the time he composed the music for the BBC's radio series "Much Binding in the Marsh", he was discovered by production-music publishers as a source for quality mood-music compositions. From 1946 on, he contributed and conducted (with the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra ) many instrumental works for the Chappell's catalog under both his own name and the 'Denis Rycoth' pseudonym (an anagram). From 1947 to 1949, he also conducted the New Century Orchestra until a British Musicians' Union ban put an end to that collaboration. In 1953, the BBC's popular "Friday Night is Music Night" was launched, with Sidney Torch conducting the BB Concert Orchestra for nearly twenty years until his 1972 retirement. Before then he had conducted numerous celebrity concerts at such venues as the Royal Festival Hall in London and others. His personality has been described by some of his instrumentalists and choral singers as tyrannical, and in a rare 1983 interview he admitted to being "cruel" in his professional dealings but added that in his opinion the final results may have been beneficial and that those he targeted may have been the better for it. His light-orchestral works are still very-often heard today, and American audiences remember his music from movie trailers, especially from drive-in theatres.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Ken Tuohy was born in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He is an assistant director and producer, known for Property of the State (2016), Absolutely Anything (2015) and Amadeus (1984). He has been married to Joan Tuohy since 1966. They have three children.- Actor
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Alec 'Funny Face' Pleon was one of the leading lights of British variety theatres from the 1930s to the 1970s. The son of a well-known music-hall act Daimler and Edie, he made his first stage appearance in 1923 at the Empire, Mile End Road in London's East End. His first West End appearance was at the Alhambra, Charing Cross Road. He toured South Africa and Australia and and was one of the stars of Strike a New Note at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London with the comedian Sid Field. Pleon's facial contortions earned him the nickname 'Funny Face' and he was also an expert yodeller. As well as film appearances he was often a guest star on TV nostalgia shows. One of his last UK pantomime appearances was in 1973 when he co-starred with the Blackpool comedian Roy Lester in Treasure Island.- Art Department
Charles Ixer was born in 1936 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He is known for Lifeforce (1985), The Saint (1997) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).- Ellen Daws was born in 1867 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Soldier's Courtship (1896). She was married to Robert W. Paul. She died in 1954 in London, England, UK.
- Angela Wyndham Lewis was born on 23 February 1920 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Ultraviolet (1998), EastEnders (1985) and Missing from Home (1984). She died on 23 April 2000 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Stacy Aumonier was born on 31 March 1877 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. Stacy was a writer, known for The Brown Wallet (1936), Dark Red Roses (1929) and Spy for a Day (1940). Stacy died on 21 December 1928 in Clarens, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland.
- Jago Cooper was born on 1 June 1977 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World (2014), Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest (2016) and Lost Kingdoms of Central America (2014).
- Adrian Correger was born in 1944 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Loot (1970). He died on 30 October 2018 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK.
- Norah Dwyer was born on 2 November 1890 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for I'll Take That One (1930). She died on 16 July 1971 in Swanwick, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Agnes Paulton was born in 1878 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Girl Who Didn't Care (1916), The Trumpet Call (1915) and The Right to Live (1921). She died on 4 August 1961 in Double Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Joan Tuohy was born on 20 February 1947 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. Joan is a producer, known for Botched (2007) and Puckoon (2002). Joan has been married to Ken Tuohy since 1966. They have three children.- Charles Falmer was born on 3 February 1894 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He died in 1970 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, UK.
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Charles Cartwright was born on 7 March 1851 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. Charles was a director and producer, known for English Nell (1900). Charles was married to Eva Davies Lyons. Charles died on 25 May 1915 in London, England, UK.- Leonard Morris was born on 26 December 1891 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. Leonard died on 24 May 1976 in Poole, Dorset, England, UK.
- Ernest Sewell was born on 6 September 1886 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He died on 8 November 1964 in Whetstone, London, England, UK.
- Peter Raymonde was born on 4 August 1906 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Carissima (1950) and At the Villa Rose (1948). He died on 8 November 1957 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
- George Fredericks was born on 7 November 1877 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Inquest (1939). He died in 1955 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
- Arthur Claremont was born on 25 October 1867 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Love at the Wheel (1921) and The Temporary Lady (1921). He died on 15 April 1937 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- Art Department
Patrick Weymouth was born in 1910 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He is known for The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Live and Let Die (1973) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). He died in 1981 in Hendon, London, England, UK.- Michael Wishart was born on 12 June 1928 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was married to Anne Dunn. He died on 29 June 1996 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
- Constance Luttrell was born on 9 March 1891 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Boy Meets Girl (1967), St. Ives (1955) and The Mulberry Accelerator (1955). She was married to Eric Wollheim. She died on 10 September 1983 in Ealing, London, England, UK.
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Robert Jordan Hill was born on 19 November 1914 in St Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an editor and director, known for Melody in the Dark (1949), High Jinks in Society (1949) and Bless 'Em All (1949). He died on 31 July 2002 in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.- Visual Effects
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Severi Glanville was born on 6 June 1974 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He is a production manager, known for 9th Company (2005), Rånarna (2003) and The Arena (2001).- Vida Varrall was born on 15 August 1870 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Yiddle and His Fiddle (1912) and The Bliggs Family at the Zoo (1912). She was married to William Littlejohn. She died on 22 May 1919 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Charles Woolveridge was born on 5 May 1903 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an art director and set decorator, known for The Interpretaris (1966), Whiplash (1960) and Bitter Springs (1950). He was married to Ellen Beatrice Bryan. He died on 22 October 1974 in Bellereeve, Tasmania, Australia.