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Alan Napier
Alan Napier (Alan William Napier-Clavering, 1903–1988), English character actor and Neville Chamberlain's cousin; RADA-trained, Hollywood from 1939, best known as Alfred Pennyworth in all 120 episodes of the 1966–68 Batman TV series.
André Morell
André Morell (Cecil André Mesritz, 1909–1978) was a British character actor; Quatermass in the BBC's Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), Hammer's Doctor Watson, O'Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), and Joan Greenwood's husband.
Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Lansbury (1925-2022) was a British-American-Irish actress of film, Broadway, and television, known for Gaslight, The Manchurian Candidate, Murder She Wrote, and five Tony Awards.
Anna Kashfi
Anna Kashfi, born Joan O'Callaghan (1934-2015), Welsh-raised actress presented as Indian, film debut The Mountain (1956), Marlon Brando's first wife 1957-1959, mother of Christian Brando, memoir Brando for Breakfast.
Anna Lee
Anna Lee, also known as Joan Winnifrith, was an English actress who appeared in eight John Ford films and played Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital from 1978 to 2003.
Anna Massey
Anna Massey (1937–2011) was a British stage, film, and television actress, daughter of actors Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen. Known for playing repressed and spinster roles, she won a 1987 Bafta for Hotel du Lac and a 2005 CBE.
Anna Neagle
Dame Anna Neagle (Florence Marjorie Robertson, 1904–1986), British film and stage star of the 1930s–1950s; married producer-director Herbert Wilcox in 1943; famous as Queen Victoria in Victoria the Great and for Charlie Girl's 2,062 performances.
Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley (George Anthony Newley, 1931–1999), English actor, singer, and songwriter; Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist, star of Stop the World, co-writer of Goldfinger, The Candy Man, and Willy Wonka's score.
Bernard Lee
Bernard Lee (John Bernard Lee, 1908-1981), English character actor born in Brentford, played M, head of MI6, in the first 11 Eon James Bond films from Dr. No (1962) to Moonraker (1979), opposite Connery, Lazenby, and Moore.
Bill Maynard
Bill Maynard (Walter Frederick George Williams, 1928-2018), English comedian and actor; Terry Scott double act, Selwyn Froggitt, The Gaffer, and Claude Greengrass in ITV's Heartbeat.
Bill Owen (actor)
Bill Owen (William John Owen Rowbotham, 1914-1999), English actor, played Compo Simmonite in BBC's Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 until his death; also a Royal Court stage actor, film character player, and songwriter.
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton (1899–1962), English-born stage and film actor and director, Oscar winner for The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933); famed as Captain Bligh and Quasimodo; directed only The Night of the Hunter (1955).
Daniel Massey (actor)
Daniel Massey (1933–1998), English stage and screen actor, son of Raymond Massey, godson of Noël Coward; Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for playing Coward in Star! (1968), Olivier winner for Man and Superman.
David Niven
David Niven (1910–1983), British film actor, soldier and memoirist; also known for The Moon's a Balloon. Goldwyn contract 1935, Oscar for Separate Tables, Pink Panther, Casino Royale's Sir James Bond, died at Château-d'Oex.
Dennis Price
Dennis Price, born Dennistoun John Franklin Rose Price (1915–1973), was a British actor best known as Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and as Jeeves on BBC television.
Derren Nesbitt
Derren Nesbitt, born Derren Michael Horwitz in 1935, is a British actor best known for playing the Gestapo officer Major von Hapen in Where Eagles Dare (1968).
Duncan Lamont
Duncan Lamont (Duncan William Ferguson Lamont, 1918-1978) was a British character actor born in Lisbon, known for Victor Carroon in The Quatermass Experiment, Sladden in Quatermass and the Pit, and seven Hammer films.
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), British-born actress and wife of Charles Laughton, played Mary Shelley and the Bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935); also ran the Cave of Harmony nightclub and appeared in Mary Poppins.
Geraldine McEwan
Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown, 1932–2015), British stage and television actress; BAFTA winner for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and ITV's Miss Marple (2004–2009), distinct from actress Angela McEwan.
Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills, English actress born 1946, Disney child star of Pollyanna and The Parent Trap, last Academy Juvenile Award winner, Disney Legend 1998, memoir Forever Young.
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom (Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, 1917–2012) was a Czech-born, London-based character actor, best known as Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films and for playing Napoleon three times.
Herbert Marshall
Herbert Marshall (1890-1966), English stage, film, and radio actor; lost a leg in WWI yet starred in Trouble in Paradise, The Letter, and The Little Foxes, and played Ken Thurston on radio's A Man Called X.
J. Pat O'Malley
J. Pat O'Malley, also known as James Patrick O'Malley, was an English actor and singer. He provided voices for Walt Disney animated productions, including Alice in Wonderland (1951).
James Mason
James Mason (1909–1984) was an English actor from Huddersfield, Cambridge-trained in architecture, with a 50-year, 100-plus-film career; three Oscar nominations, no win; star of Odd Man Out, A Star Is Born, and Lolita.
Janet Munro
Janet Munro (Janet Neilson Horsburgh, 1934-1972), British actress of Disney family films Darby O'Gill, Third Man on the Mountain, and Swiss Family Robinson; Golden Globe winner, BAFTA nominee for Life for Ruth.
Joan Plowright
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier (1929–2025), English stage and screen actress, Royal Court founder member, Tony and double Golden Globe winner, and Laurence Olivier's widow.
John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 1912–1983) was an English character actor, the genteel Sergeant Arthur Wilson in BBC's Dad's Army (1968–1977), a BAFTA-winning lead in Traitor, married three times including Hattie Jacques; not the same-named Jeremy Thorpe plot figure.
John Loder (actor)
John Loder (born John Muir Lowe, 1898-1988) was a British leading man in films from silent-era Germany to Sabotage, How Green Was My Valley and Now, Voyager; third husband of Hedy Lamarr.
John Merivale
John Herman Merivale (Jack Merivale, 1917–1990), Canadian-born British stage, film, and TV actor; starred in A Night to Remember, King Rat, Arabesque; longtime partner of Vivien Leigh; married Jan Sterling and Dinah Sheridan.
John Mills
Sir John Mills (1908-2005), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, English actor with a 70-year, 100-plus-film career; Oscar winner for Ryan's Daughter (1970), famed for British war films, father of Hayley and Juliet Mills; not the WWI soldier or the Florida lawyer.