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Nan Munro
Nan Munro (Anne Mackay Munro, 1905-1992) was a South African-born British actress, producer and director who co-founded the Munro-Inglis Company, married writer Rayne Kruger in 1947, and worked mainly in British television and film.
Nanette Newman
Nanette Newman (born 29 May 1934, Northampton) is an English actress and author, wife of director Bryan Forbes, star of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Wrong Box, The Stepford Wives and International Velvet, and the face of Fairy Liquid adverts.
Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce (William Nigel Ernle Bruce, 1895-1953), British character actor famous as Dr. Watson opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes in fourteen 1939-1946 films and 200+ radio plays; also known for Hitchcock's Rebecca and Suspicion.
Nigel Davenport
Nigel Davenport (1928–2013), English character actor, Royal Court English Stage Company founder, Equity president 1986–92, and screen presence in A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, and Howards' Way.
Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Wisdom (1915–2010), English slapstick comedian, actor, and singer; creator of the Gump/Norman Pitkin little-man character; star of 19 Rank films including Trouble in Store; Chaplin's favourite clown and Albania's only permitted Western film star.
Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed (Robert Oliver Reed, 1938–1999), English actor known for a macho image and hellraiser lifestyle; starred in Oliver!, Women in Love, The Devils, and Gladiator, dying in Malta mid-shoot.
Oona O'Neill
Lady Oona Chaplin, Oona O'Neill, was the fourth wife of Charlie Chaplin. This Bermuda-born figure married him in 1943 and lived in Switzerland until her death in 1991.
Pamela Franklin
Pamela Franklin (born 1950, Yokohama, Japan) is a retired British actress, debut at 11 as Flora in The Innocents (1961), award-winning Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), 1970s scream queen, retired 1981.
Pamela Mason
Pamela Mason (Pamela Helen Ostrer, 1916–1996), known professionally as Pamela Kellino, English actress, screenwriter, author and talk-show host; creative partner and first wife of James Mason, co-writer of The Upturned Glass and Charade.
Pat Hitchcock
Pat Hitchcock (Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell, 1928-2021), only child of Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville; actress in Stage Fright, Strangers on a Train, Psycho, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents; later guardian of the family legacy.
Pat Phoenix
Pat Phoenix (Patricia Frederica Manfield, 1923–1986), English actress who originated Elsie Tanner in ITV's Coronation Street from its 9 December 1960 debut until January 1984, married Tony Booth days before dying of lung cancer.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was an English actress who appeared in British television during the 1960s and 1970s. She was the first wife of Michael Caine and died in 1977.
Patricia Medina
Patricia Paz Maria Medina (1919–2012) was a British-born actress who played leads in Hollywood costume dramas of the early 1950s and married Joseph Cotten in 1960.
Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee (Daniel Patrick Macnee, 1922–2015), English actor who played bowler-hatted secret agent John Steed in all 161 episodes of The Avengers (1961–69), The New Avengers (1976–77), and later film and TV roles.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick Troughton (1920-1987), English character actor, the second Doctor in Doctor Who (1966-1969, returns 1973, 1983, 1985); also television's first Robin Hood and the priest in The Omen.
Patrick Wymark
Patrick Wymark (Patrick Carl Cheeseman, 1926-1970), English Shakespearean stage actor and ITV star as ruthless tycoon John Wilder in The Plane Makers and The Power Game; films included Repulsion, Where Eagles Dare, and Cromwell.
Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield (David Paul Scofield, 1922-2008), English stage and film actor; Oscar winner as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons (1966); his 1962 King Lear was voted the greatest Shakespearean performance.
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, 1907–1991), English stage actress and RSC founding member, famed as Juliet and Margaret of Anjou; won the 1984 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India.
Peggy Mount
Peggy Mount (Margaret Rose Mount, 1916-2001) was an English actress famous for battleaxe roles: Emma Hornett in Sailor Beware!, Ada Larkin in The Larkins, George and the Dragon, and classical stage work; OBE 1996, died at Denville Hall.
Peter Butterworth
Peter Butterworth, English comic actor of the Carry On films, also a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm lieutenant, Stalag Luft III POW who helped organize the Great Escape and coded messages to MI9.
Peter Lawford
Peter Lawford (Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen, 1923–1984), English-American MGM star of the 1940s, Rat Pack member, and JFK brother-in-law via marriage to Patricia Kennedy; starred in Son of Lassie, Good News, and Ocean's 11.
Peter Purves
Peter Purves (born 1939) is an English actor and TV presenter, Doctor Who companion Steven Taylor (1965–66, 46 episodes) and Blue Peter presenter 1967–1978, later Kickstart and Crufts presenter.
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (Richard Henry Sellers, 1925-1980), British comic actor of The Goon Show, Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, Dr. Strangelove, and Being There; Oscar-nominated, never won.
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Ustinov (Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov, 1921–2004) was a British actor, playwright, director, and raconteur of Russian, German, French, and Ethiopian descent; won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, three Emmys, a Grammy, and served 36 years as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Rachel Kempson
Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave (1910-2003), English RADA-trained stage and screen actress, matriarch of the Redgrave dynasty: wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, mother of Vanessa, Corin, and Lynn, debut Hero at Stratford 1933.
Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson (1902-1983), English stage and film actor of the Olivier-Gielgud-Richardson trio; Old Vic co-director, knighted 1947; famed Falstaff, Peer Gynt, The Fallen Idol, The Heiress.
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison, born Reginald Carey Harrison (1908 to 1990), was an English actor who won a Tony and an Academy Award for playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough (1923–2014), English actor, Oscar-winning director and producer of Gandhi (1982), star of Brighton Rock, The Great Escape and Jurassic Park, BFI chairman, knighted 1976, life peer 1993.
Richard Greene
Richard Greene (Richard Marius Joseph Greene, 1918-1985), English actor born in Plymouth, star of 143 episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood (ITV 1955-59) and over 40 films including The Hound of the Baskervilles; 27th Lancers officer in World War II.
Richard Haydn
Richard Haydn (George Richard Haydon, 1905-1985), British character actor noted for a nasal, pompous manner; played Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music, voiced the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951), and appeared in Ball of Fire and Young Frankenstein.