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Born as George Victor Bishop in 1932. He changed his name to Edward when he became a professional actor, as there was already an actor named George Bishop. Raised in Peekskill, New York through high school. Served in the US Army 1952-1954, worked as a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio at St Johns' Newfoundland. Planned for a career in Business Administration and went back to school at Boston University. Decided he didn't like Business Administration and enrolled in Boston University Theater Division (1956). Graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Won a scholarship to study drama at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1960. Started his professional acting career in July 1961. Married his second wife, the economist Hilary Preen at Caxton Hall in 1962. Met Hilary in Trafalgar Square when he was visiting places of interest in London. They had four children, who were born in 1964 (Daniel, who later died in a car crash), 1967 (Georgina), 1968 (Jessica) and 1971 (Serina). They lived in Napton on the Hill, a little village in Warwickshire, where he bought a large old house in 1980. Here he founded Napton Open Air Theatre and Napton Little Theatre, which staged high quality village productions. He later lived with his third wife, Jane Skinner, at East Molesey. Ed became a grandfather in 1994. He was a keen anti-war campaigner, addressing meetings in Manchester and attending demonstrations at arms fairs. He notably crashed one such fair dressed as General Pinochet, along with four other dictators that Britain had supplied arms to - and who had subsequently turned nasty: General Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and Ivan the Terrible. It made the national news.- Glamour model and actress Debbie Linden was born on February 22, 1961 in Glasgow, Scotland. The daughter of cabaret entertainer Neil Linden and Rosemary Linden, Debbie attended stage school and initially wanted to be a dancer (she studied both tap and ballroom dancing as a means of preparing herself for a career in show business). Linden instead went on to become a topless model and Page 3 girl. Debbie first began acting in both films and TV shows in the late 1970's; she's probably best known for her recurring role as Old Mr. Grace's saucy secretary on the hit comedy series Are You Being Served? (1972). Sadly, Linden had problems with anorexia as well as drug and alcohol addiction which started at age 13 when she began taking slimming pills to control her weight. Debbie died at home at the tragically young age of 36 from a heroin overdose on October 5, 1997. Her boyfriend Russell Ainsworth was acquitted of manslaughter charges, but was still sentenced to two and a half years in prison for supplying the drugs that killed her.
- Sheila Burrell was born on 9 May 1922 in Blackheath, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Paranoiac (1963) and The Feathered Serpent (1976). She was married to David Sim and Laurence Payne. She died on 19 July 2011 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Barbara Mitchell was born on 4 October 1929 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for For the Love of Ada (1972), The Larkins (1958) and Beryl's Lot (1973). She was married to Rex Graham. She died on 9 December 1977 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Philip Ray was born on 1 November 1898 in Streatham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Starr and Company (1958), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1960) and Sons and Lovers (1960). He died on 11 May 1978 in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, UK.
- James Garbutt was born in 1925 in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman (1978), When the Boat Comes In (1976) and The Onedin Line (1971). He died on 5 April 2020 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
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Godfrey Grayson was born on 2 August 1913 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Meet Simon Cherry (1949), Room to Let (1950) and To Have and to Hold (1951). He was married to Ida Nannestad Hassing. He died on 1 June 1998 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- Alan Rowe was born on 14 December 1926 in Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand. He was an actor, known for Les Misérables (1967), Heil Caesar! (1973) and Morgan's Boy (1984). He died on 21 October 2000 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Marcus Powell was born on 23 November 1909 in Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), The Elephant Man (1980) and Top Secret! (1984). He died in 1991 in Kingston upon Thames, London, England, UK.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Eadweard Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames, England, to John and Susanna Muggeridge. At the age of 20 he immigrated to the United States as a bookseller, first to New York City, then to San Francisco. In 1860, he planned a return trip to Europe, but suffered serious head injuries en route in a stagecoach crash in Texas. He spent the next few years recuperating in Kingston upon Thames, where he took up professional photography, learned the wet-plate collodion process, and secured at least two British patents for his inventions. He returned to San Francisco in 1867, a man with a markedly changed personality. In 1868, he exhibited large photographs of Yosemite Valley, and began selling popular stereographs of his work. His great breakthrough came in 1872 when he was hired by wealthy American businessman and former California governor Leland Stanford, who later founded Stanford University. Stanford was interested in whether horses lifted all legs off the ground at once during trotting, and Muybridge was engaged to take photographs to settle the point. Although the experiment proved inconclusive at the time, Muybridge was re-engaged for further photographic studies in 1878. Using a battery of 12 cameras set side by side and a specially marked fence along the racetrack to pinpoint the horse's precise movements, Muybridge effectively created the first true study of motion. By January 1880 he invented zoopraxiscope to project his famous chronophotographic pictures in motion and thus prove that these were authentic. The projector used glass disks onto which Muybridge had an unidentified artist paint the sequences as silhouettes. Later, his more-detailed images were hand-coloured and marketed commercially. A device he developed was later regarded as an early movie projector, and the process was an intermediate stage toward motion pictures or cinematography. From 1883 to 1886, he entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion. In his later years, Muybridge gave many public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences, travelling frequently in England and Europe to publicise his work in cities such as London and Paris. He also edited and published compilations of his work (some of which are still in print today), which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography. He retired to his native England permanently in 1894. In 1904, the year of his death, the Kingston Museum opened in his hometown, and continues to house a substantial collection of his works in a dedicated gallery.- Margaret Johnston was born on 10 August 1918 in Coolangatta, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Sebastian (1968), A Man About the House (1947) and Kraft Theatre (1947). She was married to Albert Parker. She died on 29 June 2002 in Kingston upon Thames, England, UK.
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Paddy Ward was born in 1924. He was an actor, known for Waking Ned Devine (1998), Casanova (2005) and Victor/Victoria (1982). He was married to Deddie Davies. He died on 15 January 2011 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.- June Mitchell was born on 30 June 1933 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dead on Course (1952), Never Look Back (1952) and The Bostonians (1984). She was married to James Shipp. She died on 2 August 2009 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
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Writer-director John Paddy Carstairs was born Nelson Keys, the son of actor Nelson Keys and the brother of producer Anthony Nelson Keys, in London, England, in 1910. Beginning his career as an assistant cameraman, he worked his way up to screenwriter and made his directorial debut in 1933. While never at the front rank of British directors, he consistently turned out solid, well-crafted--and, more importantly, successful--films that kept him in the director's chair for the next 29 years. In 1953 he was put at the helm of a Norman Wisdom comedy, Trouble in Store (1953), although he wasn't particularly known as a comedy director. Nevertheless, the film was a huge hit in the UK--Wisdom, like most British comics, never caught on in the US--and Carstairs became known as the go-to director for new screen comedians. He made a string of Wisdom comedies, in addition to films for such up-and-comers as Tommy Steele, Frankie Howerd, Bob Monkhouse and Ronald Shiner. While they may not have achieved critical acclaim, audiences nevertheless liked them and, for the most part, they made a potful of money.
After making The Devil's Agent (1962), a spy thriller, Carstairs left the film industry to pursue his two main passions, writing and painting. He died in London, age 60, in 1970.- Denton De Gray was born on 5 July 1924 in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Quatermass II (1955), The Heart Within (1957) and It Happened in Athens (1962). He was married to Sheila. He died on 6 March 2006 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Isabelle Lucas was born on 3 December 1927 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Outland (1981), The Fosters (1976) and The Sender (1982). She was married to Maurice Jennings. She died on 24 February 1997 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Marjorie Mars was born on 31 January 1903 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Brief Encounter (1945), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1947). She was married to Graeme Muir. She died on 22 December 1991 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Actress
- Writer
- Music Department
Jill Day was born on 5 December 1930 in Brighton, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Cinderella (1961), Pantomania, or It Was Never Like This (1955) and All for Mary (1955). She was married to Robinson, Douglas. She died on 16 November 1990 in Kingston upon Thames, London, England, UK.- Benedicta Leigh was born on 19 June 1922 in Farnham, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Serena (1962), Hands of Destiny (1954) and The Eternal Question (1956). She was married to Richard Vernon. She died on 8 February 2000 in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, UK.
- Kathleen Stuart was born on 9 December 1925 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for William Comes to Town (1948), Dead on Course (1952) and Just William's Luck (1948). She was married to Michael Balfour. She died on 11 May 1972 in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, UK.
- Belle Chrystall was born on 25 April 1910 in Fulwood, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hindle Wakes (1931), Hobson's Choice (1931) and Criminal at Large (1932). She was married to Charles William Roy Procter. She died on 7 June 2003 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Margot Van der Burgh was born on 14 November 1918 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Great Expectations (1959), Doctor Who (1963) and Jane Eyre (1956). She died on 14 July 2008 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Deirdre Benner was born on 19 April 1937 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Dixon of Dock Green (1955) and Champion House (1967). She was married to Gerald Sim. She died on 20 November 1999 in Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England, UK.
- Leslie Noyes was born on 26 February 1906 in East Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Dad's Army (1971), Sykes and a Big Big Show (1971) and The ITV Play (1968). He died in 1975 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
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- Writer
Robin Clarke was born on 5 January 1932 in New Malden, Surrey, England, UK. Robin was a writer, known for Aliens (1986), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Flash Gordon (1980). Robin died on 22 July 2000 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK.