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Victor McGuire
Victor McGuire (born 1964, Liverpool) is an English actor known as Jack Boswell in Bread, Ron Wheatcroft in Goodnight Sweetheart, Gary in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and roles in The Phantom of the Opera and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant, British actress born 1950 in London, trained at Elmhurst Ballet School; known for The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, All of Me, L.A. Story, and The Handmaid's Tale.
W. Morgan Sheppard
W. Morgan Sheppard (William Morgan Sheppard, 1932-2019), British character actor, RSC Associate Artist for 12 years, father of Mark Sheppard; known for Blank Reg in Max Headroom, four Star Trek roles, and Old Canton Delaware in Doctor Who.
Wanda Ventham
Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935, Brighton) is an English actress known as Colonel Virginia Lake in UFO, Pamela Parry in Only Fools and Horses, and the mother of Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom she appeared in Sherlock.
Warren Clarke
Warren Clarke (Alan James Clarke, 1947-2014), English character actor from Oldham; Dim in A Clockwork Orange, Andy Dalziel in Dalziel and Pascoe (1996-2007), Churchill, Bleak House, National Theatre work.
Wendy Craig
Wendy Craig (born Anne Gwendoline Craig, 1934) is an English actress, CBE, star of British sitcoms Not in Front of the Children, And Mother Makes Three/Five and Butterflies (Ria Parkinson), plus Nanny, The Royal, and the 1969 BAFTA-winning performance.
William Gaunt
William Gaunt (William Charles Anthony Gaunt, born 3 April 1937, Pudsey, Yorkshire) is an English actor: Richard Barrett in The Champions, Arthur Crabtree in No Place Like Home, Next of Kin with Penelope Keith, plus RSC and National Theatre stage work.
Yootha Joyce
Yootha Joyce (1927–1980), English actress, born Yootha Joyce Needham; RADA-trained, Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop alumnus, best known as Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred with Brian Murphy; died of liver failure in 1980.
Zoë Wanamaker
Zoë Wanamaker, American-born British actress (born 1949, New York), daughter of Sam Wanamaker; known for Susan Harper in My Family, Madam Hooch in Harry Potter, Love Hurts, two Olivier Awards, CBE.