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The Avengers (TV series)
The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...

and its sequel The New Avengers.
  • Joss Ackland
    Joss Ackland
    Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE , known as Joss Ackland, is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 films and numerous television roles.-Early life:...

  • Tom Adams
    Tom Adams (actor)
    Tom Adams is an English actor with roles in horror and mystery films, and several TV shows.He starred as Charles Vine in Licensed to Kill and the sequels Where the Bullets Fly and Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy .His television credits include General...

  • Trevor Adams
    Trevor Adams
    Trevor Adams was a British actor, best remembered for his portrayal of Tony Webster in the BBC series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin , which he played throughout its entire run, and Alan in "The Wedding Party" , an episode of Fawlty Towers.Adams attended the former Harold Hill Grammar...

  • Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley
    Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the third Master in Doctor Who. He was the fourth actor to play the role of the Master, and the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado...

  • Terence Alexander
    Terence Alexander
    Terence Joseph Alexander was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac.-Early life and career:...

  • Patrick Allen
    Patrick Allen
    John Keith Patrick Allen was a British film, television and voice actor.-Life and career:Allen was born in Nyasaland , where his father was a tobacco farmer. After his parents returned to Britain, he was evacuated to Canada during World War II where he remained to finish his education at McGill...

  • Ronald Allen
    Ronald Allen
    Ronald John Allen was an English character actor who achieved the status of a soap opera star.Allen was born in Reading, Berkshire...

  • Annette Andre
    Annette Andre
    Annette Andre is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. Her father was an upholsterer....

  • Bernard Archard
    Bernard Archard
    Bernard Joseph Archard was an English actor.Born in Fulham, London, he was a tall, imposing actor with a distinctive face. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War and worked on the land...

  • Alun Armstrong
    Alun Armstrong (actor)
    Alun Armstrong is a prolific British character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of...

  • Peter Arne
    Peter Arne
    Peter Arne was a British character actor best known for various performances in British film and television, including supporting roles in the television series The Avengers, Danger Man, as well as villains in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series, in a career that spanned 40 years...

  • Harvey Atkin
    Harvey Atkin
    Harvey Atkin is a Canadian voice actor who has worked in feature films and television. He has also done voice-overs, and has voiced animations.- Early life :...

  • Coral Atkins
    Coral Atkins
    Coral Atkins is a British actress.Her television credits include: Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Avengers, Callan, The Sweeney, Survivors and Emmerdale....

  • Ray Austin
  • Roger Avon
    Roger Avon
    Roger Avon was a British film and television actor.Some of his television appearances include Hancock's Half Hour, Dad's Army, When the Boat Comes In, Department S, Doctor Who, serials , Randall and Hopkirk , Our Friends in the North and Blackadder the Third...

  • John Bailey
    John Bailey (actor)
    John Bailey was a British actor with an extensive television repertoire.He played Edward Waterfield in the Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks in 1967, alongside Patrick Troughton and Marius Goring; and had previously appeared in the serial The Sensorites in 1964; and returned as Sezon in The...

  • Trevor Bannister
    Trevor Bannister
    Trevor Gordon Bannister was an English actor best known for playing the womanising junior salesman Mr. Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010...

  • Ronnie Barker
    Ronnie Barker
    Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE was a British actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman...

  • Peter Barkworth
    Peter Barkworth
    Peter Wynn Barkworth was an English actor.-Early life:Peter Barkworth was born at Margate, Kent. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Bramhall in Cheshire and Barkworth was educated at Stockport School. His headmaster wanted him to go to university but Barkworth had set his heart on a career...

  • Patrick Barr
    Patrick Barr
    Patrick David Barr was a British film and television actor.Born in Akola, India, Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with The Merry Men of Sherwood . He spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types...

  • Ray Barrett
    Ray Barrett
    Raymond Charles "Ray" Barrett was an Australian actor. He was one of the more popular leading men on British television in the 1960s, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters . Back in Australia he was a leading man in many TV series over the years.-Biography:Barrett was...

  • Tim Barrett
  • Michael Barrington
    Michael Barrington
    Michael Barrington was a British actor best known for his television work.His most famous role was as the ineffectual Governor Venables in the popular sitcom Porridge alongside Ronnie Barker and Fulton Mackay.He also appeared on the TV programmes Z-Cars, The Avengers, Private Schulz, Adam Adamant...

  • John Barron
    John Barron (actor)
    John Barron was an English actor.-Biography:Born in Marylebone, London, Barron was interested in acting from an early age. For his 18th birthday his godfather paid his entry fee to RADA. After serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, he returned to stage acting...

  • Keith Barron
    Keith Barron
    Keith Barron is an English actor and television presenter, well-known from numerous roles on British television from the 1960s to the present day.-Career:...

  • Anthony Bate
    Anthony Bate
    Anthony Bate is an English actor.He is possibly best known for his role as Oliver Lacon in the BBC television adaptations of the John le Carré novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People....

  • Timothy Bateson
    Timothy Bateson
    Timothy Dingwall Bateson was a British actor. The son of Dingwall Bateson, a solicitor later knighted, he was educated at Uppingham School and Wadham College, Oxford....

  • David Bauer
    David Bauer (actor)
    David Bauer was an American actor, a Chicagoan, who was based primarily in Britain. He was chosen as the most promising actor at Washington University and his professional career began immediately after graduating...

  • Geoffrey Bayldon
    Geoffrey Bayldon
    Geoffrey Bayldon is a British actor. After playing roles in many dramas including Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle , after turning down the opportunity to play both the First and Second Doctors in the long-running BBC science fiction...

  • Robert Beatty
    Robert Beatty
    Robert Beatty was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK.-Career:Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Beatty began his acting career in Britain in 1939....

  • Ann Bell
    Ann Bell
    Ann Bell is a British actress, best known for playing war internee Marion Jefferson in the BBC World War II drama series Tenko during the early 1980s. She was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, daughter of John Forrest Bell and Marjorie Bell, and educated at Birkenhead High School...

  • Christopher Benjamin
  • John Bennett
    John Bennett (actor)
    John Bennett was an English actor. Born in Beckenham, Kent, he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a wide Rep experience including Bromley, Bristol Old Vic, Dundee, Edinburgh Festival and Watford before going to...

  • Ballard Berkeley
  • Steven Berkoff
    Steven Berkoff
    Steven Berkoff is an English actor, writer and director. Best known for his performance as General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy, he is typically cast in villanous roles, such as Lt...

  • Michael Bilton
    Michael Bilton
    Michael Bilton was an English actor best known for his roles in the British television sitcoms To the Manor Born and Waiting for God....

  • Isobel Black
    Isobel Black
    Isobel Amy Black is a British actress who is noted for her roles on film and television. She is the daughter of the late screenwriter Ian Stuart Black...

  • Honor Blackman
    Honor Blackman
    Honor Blackman is an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger .-Early life:...

  • Isla Blair
    Isla Blair
    Isla Blair is an India-born actress of British descent. She made her first stage appearance in 1963 as Philia in the London debut of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and her first credited film appearance in the 1965 horror film Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.- Biography :Isla Blair...

  • Colin Blakely
    Colin Blakely
    Colin George Blakely was a Northern Irish character actor. He was considered an actor of great range.-Early life:...

  • Caroline Blakiston
    Caroline Blakiston
    Caroline Blakiston is an English actress who has appeared predominantly in television roles, notably in the series Brass. She also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi...

  • Brian Blessed
    Brian Blessed
    Brian Blessed is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals".-Early life:The son of William Blessed, a socialist miner, and Hilda Wall, Blessed was born in the town of Goldthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England...

  • Bruce Boa
    Bruce Boa
    Bruce Boa was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token North American in British films and television....

  • Philip Bond
    Philip Bond (actor)
    Philip Bond is a British actor best known for playing Albert Frazer in 24 episodes of the 1970s BBC nautical drama The Onedin Line....

  • Antony Booth
  • Peter Bowles
    Peter Bowles
    -Early life:Bowles was born in London, England, the son of Sarah Jane and Herbert Reginald Bowles. His father was a chauffeur and butler at a stately home in Warwickshire; but, upon the outbreak of World War II, he was seconded to work as an engineer at Rolls-Royce and moved the family to Nottingham...

  • Edward Brayshaw
    Edward Brayshaw
    Edward Brayshaw was a British actor.His television roles include the part of Rochefort in the 1966 serial The Three Musketeers and 1967's The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers...

  • James Bree
    James Bree
    James Bree was a British actor who played many supporting roles in both film and television.Bree was educated at Radley College and during World War II served in the RAF. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama...

  • Sydney Bromley
    Sydney Bromley
    Sydney Bromley was an English actor. He appeared in more than sixty films and television programmes. On stage, he appeared in St. Joan, by George Bernard Shaw, in 1924...

  • Lyndon Brook
    Lyndon Brook
    Lyndon Brook was a British actor, on film and television.Born in York, Brook came from an established acting family. His father, Clive Brook, had been a star of the silent movies and had moved to Hollywood to play quintessential Englishmen in a host of films...

  • Ray Brooks
  • Robert Brown
  • Maurice Browning
    Maurice Browning
    Maurice Browning was a British television actor.He appeared in several cult television series, including The Avengers, The Saint, The Champions and Doctor Who....

  • Alfred Burke
    Alfred Burke
    Alfred Burke was a British actor, best known for his portrayal of Frank Marker in the drama series Public Eye, which ran on television for ten years.-Early life:...

  • Jeremy Burnham
    Jeremy Burnham
    Jeremy Burnham is a British television actor of the 1960s and 1970s and a screenwriter.Burnham began in the late 1950s as an actor and appeared in many popular British TV series such as The Avengers, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk in 1969....

  • Kathleen Byron
    Kathleen Byron
    Kathleen Byron was a British actress of stage, screen and television.-Early life:Byron was born Kathleen Elizabeth Fell in West Ham – now in the London Borough of Newham...

  • Richard Caldicot
    Richard Caldicot
    Richard Caldicot was a British actor famed for his role of Commander Povey in the BBC radio series The Navy Lark. He also appeared often on television, memorably as the obstetrician delivering Betty Spencer's baby in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.His father was a civil servant and he attended Dulwich...

  • Joyce Carey
    Joyce Carey
    Joyce Carey, OBE was a British actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1984, and she was performing on television in her nineties. Though never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen...

  • Patrick Cargill
    Patrick Cargill
    Patrick Cargill was a British actor known for his role on the British television sitcom Father, Dear Father.-Career:...

  • John Carlisle
    John Carlisle (actor)
    John Carlisle is a British television and stage actor.John Carlisle had regular roles in Emergency - Ward 10, Scotland Yard on ABC, 1957–1958, and the London Weekend Television series New Scotland Yard as Detective Sergeant Ward.He also appeared in the BBC series The Omega Factor as the morally...

  • John Carson
    John Carson (actor)
    John Carson is a British actor noted for his appearances in film and television.Making his film debut in 1947, he carved out a career appearing in low budget British movies such as Seven Keys ; Smokescreen ; and Master Spy...

  • Heron Carvic
    Heron Carvic
    Heron Carvic was a British actor and writer who provided the voice for Gandalf in the BBC Radio version of The Hobbit, and played Caiphas the High Priest every time the play cycle The Man Born To Be King was broadcast....

  • John Cater
    John Cater
    John Edward Cater was an English actor.His television credits include: Danger Man, Z Cars, The Avengers, The Baron, Doctor Who , Follyfoot, Softly, Softly, Department S, Up Pompeii!, Dad's Army, The Naked Civil Servant, I, Claudius, Alcock and Gander, The Duchess of...

  • Tony Caunter
    Tony Caunter
    Anthony Peter "Tony" Caunter is a British actor best known for his role as Jack Shepherd in the Yorkshire TV sitcom Queenie's Castle and also his portrayal of Roy Evans in EastEnders from 1994-2003....

  • Peter Cellier
    Peter Cellier
    Peter Cellier is an English actor who has appeared in film, stage and television. He is perhaps best known for his role as Sir Frank Gordon in Yes Minister and then Yes, Prime Minister in the 1980s.-Biography:...

  • Geoffrey Chater
    Geoffrey Chater
    Geoffrey Chater is a British actor who was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He has starred in both film and television projects...

  • Dennis Chinnery
    Dennis Chinnery
    Dennis Chinnery is a British actor, noted for his performances in television.His credits include: Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Saint, The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Champions, Public Eye, Special Branch, Oh Brother! 'The Laughter of a Fool' and...

  • Chris Chittell
    Chris Chittell
    Christopher John Chittell is an English actor best known for his role as Eric Pollard in ITV's Emmerdale, a part that he has played since 1986....

  • Warren Clarke
    Warren Clarke
    -Biography:Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His first television appearance was in the long running Granada soap opera Coronation Street, initially as Kenny Pickup in 1966 and then as Gary Bailey in 1968. His first major film appearance was in Stanley Kubrick's controversial A Clockwork...

  • John Cleese
    John Cleese
    John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report...

  • Carol Cleveland
    Carol Cleveland
    Carol Cleveland is a British actress/comedienne, most notable for her appearances as the only significant female performer on Monty Python's Flying Circus.-Early life:...

  • Noel Coleman
    Noel Coleman
    Noel Coleman was an English actor who appeared in many television roles. He appeared in the 1969 Doctor Who serial The War Games as General Smythe and he appeared in Red Dwarf as the Cat Priest in the episode Waiting for God...

  • Sylvia Coleridge
    Sylvia Coleridge
    Sylvia Coleridge was a British stage, radio and television actress.-Career:Her acting credits include: Out of the Unknown, The Avengers, Paul Temple, The Lotus Eaters, Ace of Wands, The Tomorrow People, Z Cars, Public Eye, Sutherland's Law, Dixon of Dock Green, The Onedin Line, Doctor Who Sylvia...

  • Kenneth Colley
    Kenneth Colley
    Kenneth Colley is an English actor. A long-time character actor, he came to wider prominence through his role as Admiral Piett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....

  • Lewis Collins
    Lewis Collins
    Lewis Collins is an English actor best known for his tough-guy role as Bodie in The Professionals. He was educated at Bidston Primary and Grange School in Birkenhead. He started out as a ladies' hairdresser before playing drums and guitar in pop groups. He had a number of other jobs before...

  • Miranda Connell
    Miranda Connell
    Miranda Connell is an English actress.She attended Elmhurst Ballet School and the Cheltenham Ladies' College, then appeared on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon and the West End. On television she is best known for being a Play School presenter from May 1966 to April 1975...

  • George A. Cooper
    George A. Cooper
    George A. Cooper is an English actor.One of his best-known roles was as the caretaker Mr. Griffiths in the long-running children's TV series Grange Hill...

  • Kenneth Cope
    Kenneth Cope
    Kenneth Cope is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk , Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.- Career :...

  • James Copeland
    James Copeland (actor)
    James Copeland was a Scottish actor.His lengthy career included the ship's mate in The Maggie, the guide in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Ogilvie in Operation Kilt, an episode of Dad's Army, and the Scottish customer in Camping In, an episode of Are You Being Served?.James Copeland...

  • Paul Copley
    Paul Copley
    Paul Mackriell Copley is an award-winning English actor and voice-over artist.-Early life:Copley was born in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, and grew up beside a dairy farm there. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family...

  • Peter Copley
    Peter Copley
    Peter Copley was a British television, film and stage actor.-Biography:Copley was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, son of the printmakers, John Copley and Ethel Gabain....

  • Nicholas Courtney
    Nicholas Courtney
    William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an English television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...

  • Arthur Cox
    Arthur Cox
    Arthur Cox , is a British actor of television and film.His most regular role was as George, the driver of Jim Hacker in the comedy Yes Minister. His other television credits include The Avengers, Terry and June, and Harbour Lights...

  • Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins
    Bernard Cribbins, OBE is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 is still an active...

  • Brian Croucher
    Brian Croucher
    Brian Croucher is an English actor and director perhaps best known for his role as Ted Hills, which he played from 1995 to 1997, in the soap opera EastEnders....

  • Michael Culver
    Michael Culver
    Michael Culver is an English actor.He was born in Hampstead, London, the son of actor Roland Culver and casting director Daphne Rye...

  • Alan Curtis
    Alan Curtis (British actor)
    -Background:He was born in Coulsdon, Surrey and he has led a long career in the cinema, television and theatre.He has also acted for the MCC as an announcer at Lord's Cricket Ground.Alan now lives in West London.-Cinema appearances:...

  • Peter Cushing
    Peter Cushing
    Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played the handsome but sinister scientist Baron Frankenstein and the vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher Lee, and occasionally...

  • Iain Cuthbertson
    Iain Cuthbertson
    Iain Cuthbertson was a Scottish character actor. At 6' 4", he was known for his tall imposing build and also his distinctive "gravelly" heavily accented voice.-Early life:...

  • Stuart Damon
    Stuart Damon
    Stuart Damon is an American actor. He is known for thirty years of portraying the character Dr. Alan Quartermaine on the American soap opera General Hospital, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1999....

  • Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport
    Nigel Davenport is an English stage, television and film actor.- Early life :Davenport was born Arthur Nigel Davenport, however he goes by the first name of Nigel. Davenport was born in Shelford, Cambridgeshire, the son of Katherine Lucy and Arthur Henry Davenport. Davenport's father was a bursar...

  • Pamela Ann Davy
    Pamela Ann Davy
    Pamela Ann Davy is an Australian actress, who was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and is best known for her roles on British television during the 1960s...

  • David de Keyser
    David de Keyser
    David de Keyser is a British actor. He is the father of Alexei de Keyser, Pia de Keyser and Thomas de Keyser.In the mid-sixties de Keyser worked twice with the writer, actor and director Jane Arden. Their first collaboration, The Logic Game, was the first BBC drama to be shot on film; it was...

  • Edward de Souza
    Edward de Souza
    Edward James de Souza is a British character actor and graduate of RADA with ethnic Portuguese Indian and English origins.-Early life:...

  • Francis de Wolff
    Francis de Wolff
    Francis de Wolff was an English character actor. Large, bearded, and beetle-browed, he was often cast as villains in both film and television....

  • Ivor Dean
    Ivor Dean
    Ivor Donald Dean was a British stage and television actor.With his lugubrious demeanour he was often cast as world-weary police officers or butlers, and indeed it is for the role of Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal in the 1960s series The Saint, opposite Roger Moore, that he is best remembered...

  • Roger Delgado
    Roger Delgado
    Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto was an English actor, best known for his role as the first Master in Doctor Who....

  • Peter Dennis
    Peter Dennis
    Peter Dennis was a Screen Actors Guild Award and Drama-Logue Award winning English film, television, theatre, and voice actor. His extensive career spanned both sides of the Atlantic with projects ranging from Sideways to The Avengers. He was perhaps best known for his more than three decades...

  • J. G. Devlin
  • Peter Diamond
  • Basil Dignam
    Basil Dignam
    Basil Dignam was an English character actor.Basil Dignam, a native of Sheffield, acted on film and television between 1951 and 1975. He often appeared as an authority figure, such as a police officer, army general or peer....

  • Vernon Dobtcheff
    Vernon Dobtcheff
    Vernon Dobtcheff is a French and British actor.Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, to a family of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup...

  • Eric Dodson
    Eric Dodson
    Eric Dodson was an English actor born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. He appeared as bar owner Jack Pomeroy in Series Three to Five of Rumpole of the Bailey. He also appeared in the Doctor Who story The Visitation and many other roles.He died in 2000 at age 79.-External links:...

  • Donal Donnelly
    Donal Donnelly
    Donal Donnelly was an English-born Irish theatre and film actor. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, but raised in Dublin, Ireland....

  • Angela Douglas
    Angela Douglas
    Angela Douglas , born Angela McDonagh, is an English actress.-Early life:She was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire...

  • Donald Douglas
    Donald Douglas (actor)
    Donald Douglas is a Scottish actor who has appeared in films and many well known television shows including Doctor Who, Blake's 7, and The Avengers....

  • Gabrielle Drake
    Gabrielle Drake
    Gabrielle Drake is a British actress who was born in Lahore, British India and lived in several Far Eastern countries .-Career:...

  • Clive Dunn
    Clive Dunn
    Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn OBE is a retired English actor, comedian and author, best known for his role as Lance-Corporal Jack Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army.-Early life:...

  • Hamilton Dyce
    Hamilton Dyce
    Hamilton Dyce was a British film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* Whistle Down the Wind * Dr. Crippen * Mrs...

  • Clifford Earl
    Clifford Earl
    Clifford Earl is an English actor who has appeared in numerous television programmes and films. He appeared in the TV series Doctor Who twice, as the Station Sergeant in The Daleks' Master Plan in 1965, and as Major Branwell in The Invasion in 1968...

  • Donald Eccles
    Donald Eccles
    Donald Eccles was a British character actor.Born in Nafferton, East Yorkshire, he made his stage debut in New York City in 1930, and later became known as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...

  • Paul Eddington
    Paul Eddington
    Paul Eddington CBE was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and 80s: The Good Life, Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.-Early life:...

  • Mark Eden
    Mark Eden
    Mark Eden is a British actor.-Career:Born in London, Eden has appeared in repertory theatre in England and Wales and at the Royal Court Theatre. His many television and film roles include the Doctor Who serial Marco Polo in which he played Marco Polo...

  • Glynn Edwards
    Glynn Edwards
    Glynn Edwards is a British actor.Edwards was born in Malaya and trained as an actor at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. He is probably best known for his role as Dave 'the barman' Harris, owner of the Winchester Club in the TV show Minder...

  • Sandor Elès
    Sandor Elès
    Sandor Elès was a Hungarian-born actor....

  • Clifford Evans
    Clifford Evans
    Clifford Evans was a Welsh actor. As a conscientious objector he served in the Non-Combatant Corps in World War II.During the summer of 1934 he appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Open Air Theatre in London....

  • Tenniel Evans
    Tenniel Evans
    -Family:Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation. His daughter, Serena Evans, is an actress, and his son, Matthew, is a television director....

  • Kenneth Farrington
  • Sheila Fearn
    Sheila Fearn
    Sheila Fearn is a British actress best known for playing Audrey, the sister of Terry Collier in BBC situation comedies The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, and also later on as Ann Fourmile, the next door neighbour in the Thames Television sitcom George and Mildred.On film...

  • Fenella Fielding
    Fenella Fielding
    Fenella Fielding — "England's first lady of the double entendre" — is an English actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s. She is known for her seductive image and distinctively husky voice.-Family:...

  • Jon Finch
    Jon Finch
    Jon Finch is an English actor noted for many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was the title role in Roman Polanski's 1971 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. His other famous role was as a down-and-out ex-RAF pilot wrongly accused of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's...

  • Lucy Fleming
    Lucy Fleming
    Lucy Fleming is a British actress.She is the daughter of the actress Celia Johnson and writer Peter Fleming, as well as the niece of James Bond author Ian Fleming...

  • Eric Flynn
    Eric Flynn
    Eric William Flynn was a Chinese born British actor and singer, who was the father of actors Jerome Flynn and Daniel Flynn whom he had with his first wife Fern; the former best known for appearing in Soldier Soldier and the latter known for his character in The Bill...

  • John Forbes-Robertson
    John Forbes-Robertson (actor)
    John Forbes-Robertson was a British actor best-known for being the only actor other than Christopher Lee to play the title role in the Hammer horror series of Dracula films....

  • John Forgeham
    John Forgeham
    John Forgeham is a British actor who is probably best known for playing businessman Frank Laslett in the ITV series Footballers' Wives....

  • Dudley Foster
    Dudley Foster
    Dudley Foster was an English actor most notable on TV.Foster was born in Brighouse, Yorkshire. He appeared in such series as Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers, Steptoe and Son, Doctor Who , and Z Cars, often in villainous roles. He occasionally appeared in films...

  • Edward Fox
    Edward Fox (actor)
    Edward Charles Morice Fox, OBE is an English stage, film and television actor.He is generally associated with portraying the role of the upper-class Englishman, such as the title character in the film The Day of the Jackal and King Edward VIII in the serial Edward & Mrs...

  • William Fox
    William Fox (actor)
    William Hubert Fox TD was a British character actor and writer. Fox enjoyed early success on the stage playing juvenile roles...

  • Derek Francis
    Derek Francis
    Derek Francis was an English comedy and character actor.He was a regular in the Carry On film players, appearing in six of the films in the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Roger Corman's last film of his Edgar Allan Poe series The Tomb of Ligeia...

  • William Franklyn
    William Franklyn
    William Leo Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973...

  • Bill Fraser
    Bill Fraser
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  • Liz Fraser
    Liz Fraser
    Liz Fraser is an English actress, mainly in comedy roles.- Life and career :Her birthdate is usually attributed as 1933, the year she gave when auditioning for her role in I'm All Right Jack, as the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part...

  • Ronald Fraser
    Ronald Fraser
    Ronald Fraser was an English character actor, who appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s whilst also appearing in many popular TV shows.-Background:...

  • Leslie French
    Leslie French
    Leslie Richard French was a British actor of stage and screen.French was primarily a theatre actor, as well as a director, singer and dancer, with a varied career that included the classics, musical revue, pantomime and ballet...

  • Jimmy Gardner
    Jimmy Gardner (British actor)
    Edward Charles James "Jimmy" Gardner, DFM was a British actor. He is perhaps best known for having played Knight Bus driver Ernie Prang in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third film adaptation of the Harry Potter books. His first appearance was in The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb in 1964...

  • William Gaunt
    William Gaunt
    William Charles Anthony Gaunt is an English actor, sometimes credited as Bill Gaunt.-Early life:...

  • Eunice Gayson
    Eunice Gayson
    Eunice Gayson is a British actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films...

  • Robert Gillespie
    Robert Gillespie
    Robert Gillespie is a British actor.He was brought up in Nantes until his parents moved to Manchester, having arrived in Plymouth in 1940...

  • Julian Glover
    Julian Glover
    Julian Wyatt Glover is a British actor best known for such roles as General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.-Personal life:Glover was born in...

  • Willoughby Goddard
    Willoughby Goddard
    Willoughby Wittenham Rees Goddard was a British actor whose trademark rotund figure was well known on television and in films for over 40 years.Goddard was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire. He played Mr...

  • Michael Goldie
    Michael Goldie
    Michael Goldie was a British Character actor active between 1963 and 1996.He starred in many TV roles including Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Wycliffe, Inspector Morse and Z-Cars. Probably his most watched role though was as Kenneth of Cowfell in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves....

  • Michael Goodliffe
    Michael Goodliffe
    Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe was an English actor best known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts....

  • Michael Gough
    Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise,...

  • Michael Gover
    Michael Gover
    Michael Gover is an English actor, born in 1918 in Denmark, now living in Dorset, England, he is best known for his portrayal of Arthur Russell in the BBC television series Survivors....

  • David Graham
    David Graham (actor)
    David Graham is a British character actor and voice artist. Born in London, after a period in the R.A.F as a Radar Mechanic he trained as an actor in New York but has worked mainly on British television series....

  • Willoughby Gray
    Willoughby Gray
    Willoughby Gray was an English actor of stage and screen born in London ....

  • Stephen Greif
    Stephen Greif
    Stephen Greif is an award-winning English actor.His television appearances include Waking the Dead , Spooks , Mistresses 2 , He Kills Coppers , Holby City , The Last Days of Pompeii as Sporus, Judge John Deed , Space Race , EastEnders , The Bill and...

  • Jack Gwillim
    Jack Gwillim
    Jack William Frederick Gwillim was a prolific English character actor.-Career:Born in Canterbury, Kent, England, he served in the Royal Navy for over twenty years, attaining the rank of Commander...

  • Michael Gwynn
    Michael Gwynn
    Michael Gwynn was an English actor. He attended Mayfield College near Mayfield, East Sussex. During the Second World War he served in East Africa as a major and was adjutant to the 2nd Battalion of the King's African Rifles.He is perhaps best remembered in contemporary culture as the shyster Lord...

  • Ingrid Hafner
    Ingrid Hafner
    Ingrid Hafner was a British actress. Her father was Raoul Hafner, an Austrian helicopter pioneer, and her mother Eileen Myra McAdam was a descendant of John Loudon McAdam, the road builder....

  • Patricia Haines
    Patricia Haines
    Patricia Haines was an English actress.Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Haines is best known for her television work...

  • Peter Halliday
    Peter Halliday
    Peter Halliday is a Welsh actor.He is probably best known for his role as Dr. John Fleming in A for Andromeda and its sequel,...

  • Prentis Hancock
    Prentis Hancock
    Prentis Hancock is a British actor, best known for his television roles.He was a regular cast member of the first season of science fiction series Space: 1999 as Paul Morrow, and also appeared in a number of Doctor Who stories throughout the 1970s - Spearhead from Space and Planet of the Daleks...

  • Doris Hare
    Doris Hare
    Doris Hare MBE was a Welsh actress, best known for her appearances as "Mum" in the popular sitcom On the Buses alongside Reg Varney and Stephen Lewis....

  • Gerald Harper
    Gerald Harper
    Gerald Harper is an actor, best known for his work on television, having played the title roles in Adam Adamant Lives! and Hadleigh ....

  • Imogen Hassall
    Imogen Hassall
    Imogen Hassall was an English actress who appeared in 33 films during the 1960s and 1970s.- Early life :...

  • Michael Hawkins
  • Ian Hendry
    Ian Hendry
    Ian Hendry was an English film and television actor. He is best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s such as The Avengers, and for his roles in 1970s films such as Get Carter .-Career:Hendry was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Culford School...

  • Arthur Hewlett
    Arthur Hewlett
    Arthur Hewlett was a British actor.He is best remembered for his roles on television, including Quatermass and the Pit, Police Surgeon, The Avengers, The Saint, No Hiding Place, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Menace, Follyfoot, The Changes, Blake's 7, Doctor Who Arthur Hewlett (12 March 1907...

  • Donald Hewlett
    Donald Hewlett
    Donald Marland Hewlett was an English actor, born in Northenden, Manchester, and best known for his sitcom roles as Colonel Charles Reynolds in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Lord Meldrum in You Rang, M'Lord?, both written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft...

  • Carleton Hobbs
    Carleton Hobbs
    Carleton Percy Hobbs was an English actor with many film, radio and television appearances. He portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 80 radio adaptations between 1952 and 1969, and also starred in the radio adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour.Hobbs was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, into a...

  • Jan Holden
    Jan Holden
    Valerie Jeanne Wilkinson was an English actress who was known as Jan Holden.Jan Holden was a stage actress known for her performances in light comedy and also for her appearances in several popular television series during the 1950s and 1960s. She was an elegant woman notable for her arresting...

  • Sue Holderness
    Sue Holderness
    Sue Holderness is an English actress. Since 1985 she has played the role of Marlene Boyce in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off The Green Green Grass .-Career:...

  • John Hollis
    John Hollis
    John Hollis was an English actor. He played the role of Lobot in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the German porter at the chateau in The Dirty Dozen...

  • Julian Holloway
    Julian Holloway
    Julian Holloway is an English actor now based in Hollywood, CA, United States. He is the son of the comedy actor and singer Stanley Holloway and former chorus dancer and actress Violet Lane...

  • Patrick Holt
    Patrick Holt
    Patrick Holt was a British film and television actor.-Biography:Patrick Holt's real name was Patrick G. Parsons. Some of his childhood was spent in India with his Uncle. Patrick was sent to Christ's Hospital, a famous charity school in England, UK...

  • Bernard Horsfall
    Bernard Horsfall
    Bernard Horsfall is a British actor.Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. He has appeared in many television and film roles including: Guns at Batasi , On Her Majesty's Secret Service , Enemy at the Door , Gandhi , The Jewel in the Crown , The Hound of the Baskervilles Bernard...

  • Peter Howell
    Peter Howell (actor)
    Peter Howell is a British actor.A regular in 1950s television hospital drama series Emergency Ward 10, he has made guest appearances in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who. He played the prison governor in the 1979 film Scum. He played Saruman in the 1981 BBC Radio production of The Lord of...

  • Gareth Hunt
    Gareth Hunt
    Alan Leonard Hunt was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.-Early life:...

  • Richard Hurndall
    Richard Hurndall
    Richard Gibbon Hurndall was an English actor.-BBC radio:Hurndall was born in Darlington and he attended Claremont Preparatory School, Darlington and Scarborough College, before training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then appeared in several plays at Stratford-upon-Avon...

  • Barrie Ingham
    Barrie Ingham
    Barrie Ingham is an English actor in stage, TV and film.-Life and career:Ingham was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of Irene and Harold Ellis Stead Ingham. He was educated at Heath Grammar School and became a Royal Artillery Officer. His major theatre debut was at Manchester Library...

  • Harold Innocent
    Harold Innocent
    Harold Sidney Innocent was a British actor who appeared in many film and television roles.After attending Broad Street Secondary Modern School in Coventry, Innocent worked for a short time as an office clerk...

  • Barry Jackson
  • David Jackson
    David Jackson (British actor)
    David Jackson was a British actor best known for his role as Olag Gan in the Blake's 7 first two seasons and as Detective Constable Braithwaite in Z Cars from 1972-1978...

  • Gordon Jackson
    Gordon Jackson (actor)
    Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals....

  • Frederick Jaeger
    Frederick Jaeger
    Frederick Jaeger was a German-born actor who found success working in British television.Jaeger was born in Berlin, but moved to England following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1948, and became a British citizen two years later...

  • Godfrey James
    Godfrey James
    Godfrey James is an English actor.His film appearances include: Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan's Claw, The Oblong Box, The Land That Time Forgot, Séance on a Wet Afternoon and At the Earth's Core....

  • Robert James
    Robert James (actor)
    Robert James was a Scottish actor, who was best known for his television work.Born in Paisley, Scotland, Robert James trained to be a lawyer, before being spotted by a professional director while doing amateur dramatics....

  • Colin Jeavons
    Colin Jeavons
    Colin Jeavons is a Welsh television actor.-Career:Jeavons is best known as Inspector Lestrade in the Granada television serials The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, or the part of the undertaker, Shadrack, in the television situation comedy written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from...

  • Peter Jeffrey
    Peter Jeffrey
    Peter Jeffrey was a British actor with many roles in television and film.Jeffrey was born in Bristol, the son of Florence Alice and Arthur Winfred Gilbert Jeffrey. He was educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge but had no formal training as an actor...

  • Jimmy Jewel
    Jimmy Jewel
    James Arthur Thomas J. Marsh, known as Jimmy Jewel, was a British television and film actor.The son of a comedian and actor who also used the stage name Jimmy Jewel, the youngster made his stage debut in Robinson Crusoe in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, at the age of four, performed with his father...

  • Edward Jewesbury
    Edward Jewesbury
    Edward Jewesbury was a British actor, notable for his film, stage and television work and as a member of the Renaissance Theatre Company. In his later years he appeared in such television comedies as Yes Minister and Blackadder II.His son Ian was a senior civil servant at the UK Department of...

  • Stratford Johns
    Stratford Johns
    Stratford Johns, born Alan Edgar Stratford-Johns, was a popular British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, created by Troy Kennedy-Martin.-Early life:Johns...

  • Freddie Jones
    Freddie Jones
    Frederick Charles "Freddie" Jones is an English character actor.Jones was born in the town of Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the son of Ida Elizabeth and Charles Edward Jones. He became an actor after ten years of working as a laboratory assistant with a firm making ceramic products,...

  • Mark Jones
    Mark Jones (actor)
    Mark Jones was a British actor, who appeared frequently in various television series.Credits include: A Family at War, Z Cars, Van der Valk, Doctor Who , The New Avengers, The Onedin Line, Target, Secret Army, Tales of the Unexpected, Buccaneer, Blott on the Landscape,...

  • Norman Jones
    Norman Jones (actor)
    Norman Jones is an English actor, primarily on television. He has appeared in three Doctor Who serials — The Abominable Snowmen , Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Masque of Mandragora .A native of Shropshire, Norman Jones began his screen career in 1962, at the age of 27, appearing over...

  • Yootha Joyce
    Yootha Joyce
    Yootha Joyce was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.-Early life:...

  • Edward Judd
    Edward Judd
    Edward Judd was a British actor.Born in Shanghai, China, he and his English father and Russian mother fled when the Japanese attacked China five years later....

  • John Junkin
    John Junkin
    John Francis Junkin was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing...

  • Maurice Kaufmann
    Maurice Kaufmann
    Maurice Harington Kaufmann was a British actor of stage, TV and film, particularly well-utilized in whodunnits and horrors who acted from 1954 to 1981, when he retired....

  • Bernard Kay
    Bernard Kay
    Bernard Kay is a British actor with an extensive theatre, television and film repertoire.Kay began his working life as a reporter on Bolton Evening News, and a stringer for The Manchester Guardian. He was conscripted in 1946 and started acting in the army...

  • Andrew Keir
    Andrew Keir
    Andrew Keir was a Scottish actor, who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s. He was also active in television, and particularly in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s...

  • Penelope Keith
    Penelope Keith
    Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL is an English actress.Having started her television career in the 1950s, Penelope Keith became a household name in the United Kingdom in the 1970s when she played Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom The Good Life...

  • Edward Kelsey
    Edward Kelsey
    Edward Kelsey is a British actor of stage and screen as well as a voiceover artist. He is perhaps best recognised as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers - a role he took over in 1985.On television, he is known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and...

  • Jo Kendall
    Jo Kendall
    Jo Kendall is a British actress.She played Desdemona in a production of Othello at the A.D.C. Theatre, Cambridge in 1962.In August 1963 she appeared in the West End in London, New Zealand and Broadway, in the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus directed by Humphrey Barclay, alongside Graham...

  • Diana King
    Diana King (actress)
    Diana King was an English television actress who had a career on British television from 1939 to 1986. She was sometimes credited as Diane King, and was born in Buckinghamshire....

  • Roy Kinnear
    Roy Kinnear
    Roy Mitchell Kinnear was an English character actor. He is best remembered for playing Veruca Salt's father, Mr. Salt, in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.-Early life:...

  • Gertan Klauber
    Gertan Klauber
    George Gertan Klauber was a British character actor.He played small roles in many of the Carry On films, and appeared as mad king George III in Blackadder the Third....

  • Burt Kwouk
    Burt Kwouk
    Burt Kwouk OBE , born Herbert Kwouk, is an English actor of Chinese descent, known for many television appearances and for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films.-Career:...

  • Ronald Lacey
    Ronald Lacey
    Ronald Lacey was an English actor. He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30 year period and is perhaps best remembered for his villainous roles in Hollywood films, most famously Major Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark.-Career:Lacey attended Harrow Weald Grammar School and...

  • Alan Lake
    Alan Lake
    Alan Lake was an English actor, best known as the third husband of Diana Dors.-Biography:Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 November 1940...

  • Larry Lamb
    Larry Lamb (actor)
    Lawrence Douglas "Larry" Lamb is an English actor who has worked frequently in television. He is best known for playing one of the greatest villains of British soap Archie Mitchell in the BBC television soap EastEnders, Michael Shipman in the BBC television show Gavin & Stacey and Mischievous...

  • Annie Lambert
    Annie Lambert
    Annie Lambert is a British actress, best known to fans of the science fiction television series Doctor Who for her role as Enlightenment in the 1982 serial Four to Doomsday....

  • Jack Lambert
    Jack Lambert (British actor)
    Jack Lambert was a British film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* Red Ensign * The Ghost Goes West * Premiere * Nine Men * Floodtide * The Lost Hours...

  • Duncan Lamont
    Duncan Lamont
    Duncan William Ferguson Lamont was a British actor. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, but brought up in Scotland, he had a long and successful career in film and television, appearing in a variety of high-profile productions....

  • Dinsdale Landen
    Dinsdale Landen
    Dinsdale James Landen was a British actor known mainly for his television appearances.Landen was born at Margate. He made his television debut in 1959 as Pip in an adaptation of Great Expectations and made his film debut in 1960, with a walk-on part in The League of Gentlemen...

  • Harry Landis
    Harry Landis
    Harry Landis is a British actor. He has had a long career in British television and film and is known for playing cockney-Jewish roles....

  • David Langton
    David Langton
    David Muir Langton was a British actor who is best remembered for playing Richard Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs.-Early years:...

  • Philip Latham
    Philip Latham
    Philip Latham is a British actor. He was educated at Felsted School.In the late 1960s/early 1970s he was well known to British TV viewers for his portrayal of chief accountant Willy Izard, the "conscience" to hard-nosed oil company industrialist Brian Stead in the BBC series The Troubleshooters...

  • John Laurie
    John Laurie
    John Paton Laurie was a British actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. Although he is now probably most recognised for his role as Private James Frazer in the sitcom Dad's Army , he appeared in hundreds of feature films, including films by Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and Laurence Olivier...

  • Jon Laurimore
    Jon Laurimore
    Jon Laurimore is a British actor, known for his television appearances.His credits include: The Avengers, The Prisoner, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Public Eye, Warship, Sutherland's Law, The Onedin Line, Spy Trap, Rock Follies, Space: 1999, Doctor Who , I, Claudius, Target, Secret...

  • John Le Mesurier
    John Le Mesurier
    John Le Mesurier was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army.-Career:...

  • Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

  • John Lee
    John Lee (actor)
    John Lee was an Australian actor.He is remembered for his roles on television, including Andrew Reynolds in Prisoner and Philip Stewart in Return to Eden....

  • Robert Lee
    Robert Lee (actor)
    Robert Lee is a British actor of Asian ethnicity.-Filmography:-External links:...

  • Richard Leech
    Richard Leech
    Richard Leech , born Richard Leeper McClelland, was an accomplished actor.Richard Leeper McClelland was born in Dublin, Ireland, son of Isabella Frances and Herbert Saunderson McClelland, a lawyer. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Dublin...

  • Ronald Leigh-Hunt
    Ronald Leigh-Hunt
    Ronald Leigh-Hunt was a British film and television actor.His father was a stockbroker and he attended the Italia Conti Academy. He began acting whilst serving in the army...

  • Tutte Lemkow
    Tutte Lemkow
    Tutte Lemkow was a Norwegian actor and dancer, who played mostly villainous roles in British television and films. His chief claims to mainstream familiarity were his roles as "the fiddler" in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof and the old man who translates for Indiana Jones in Raiders of...

  • Valerie Leon
    Valerie Leon
    Valerie Leon is an English actress who had roles in a number of high profile British film franchises, including the Carry On series.-Early life:...

  • Barry Letts
    Barry Letts
    Barry Leopold Letts was a British actor, television director, writer and producer best known for his work on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and for producing the BBC's Sunday Classic drama serials in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

  • Pik-Sen Lim
    Pik-Sen Lim
    Pik-Sen Lim is a Chinese-British actress who has appeared on British television since the 1950s. She is best known for playing the character of Su-Lee, the Chinese Communist student in the British sitcom Mind Your Language ....

  • Henry Lincoln
    Henry Lincoln
    Henry Lincoln is an English author, television presenter, scriptwriter and former Supporting actor. He co-wrote three Doctor Who multi-part serials in the 1960s, and —starting in the 1970s— authored a series of books and inspired documentaries for the British television channel BBC2,...

  • Jennie Linden
    Jennie Linden
    Jennie Linden is an English film and television actress.Linden was born in Worthing to Marcus and Freida Fletcher, an architect and housewife. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama at the age of 17 on a scholarship...

  • Cec Linder
    Cec Linder
    Cec Linder was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing American characters in various films and television programmes.In film, he is probably best remembered for his role as James Bond's CIA counterpart...

  • Moira Lister
    Moira Lister
    Moira Lister de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomtesse d’Orthez was an Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress, and writer.-Early life:...

  • Jeremy Lloyd
    Jeremy Lloyd
    Jeremy Lloyd is an English writer, screenwriter, author and actor, best known as co-author and writer of several successful British sitcoms.-Career:...

  • Sue Lloyd
    Sue Lloyd
    Sue Lloyd was an English model turned actress with numerous film and television credits.-Biography:...

  • Philip Locke
    Philip Locke
    Philip Locke was an English actor.He is possibly best known for his role as villainous SPECTRE underling Vargas in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball...

  • David Lodge
    David Lodge (actor)
    David William Frederick Lodge was a British character actor.Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown...

  • Justine Lord
    Justine Lord
    Justine Lord is an English actress, active on television throughout the 1960s.She began her acting career in repertory theatre, and in the 1960s made guest appearances on The Avengers, The Saint, The Prisoner and Man in a Suitcase as well as playing regular roles on Crossroads, Compact,...

  • Arthur Lowe
    Arthur Lowe
    Arthur Lowe was a BAFTA Award winning English actor. He was best known for playing Captain George Mainwaring in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977.-Early life:...

  • William Lucas
    William Lucas (British actor)
    William Lucas is a British film and television actor. His first acting role was in the film Portrait of Alison , and later appeared in many Hammer Film Productions such as Shadow of the Cat. He is probably best known for his role in The Adventures of Black Beauty as Dr...

  • Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive...

  • Fulton Mackay
    Fulton Mackay
    Fulton Mackay OBE was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.-Early life:...

  • Patrick Macnee
    Patrick Macnee
    Patrick Macnee is an English actor, best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers.-Early life:...

  • Duncan Macrae
  • Victor Maddern
    Victor Maddern
    Victor Jack Maddern was an English actor.Born in Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, Maddern was one of large group of dependable supporting actors that British film produced over the years....

  • Philip Madoc
    Philip Madoc
    Philip Madoc is a Welsh actor who has had many television and film roles.One prominent role was the title character in the BBC Wales drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George...

  • Patrick Magee
    Patrick Magee (actor)
    Patrick Magee was a Northern Irish actor best known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, as well as his appearances in horror films and in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.-Early life:He was born Patrick McGee in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern...

  • Patrick Malahide
    Patrick Malahide
    Patrick Malahide is a British actor, who has played many major film and television roles.-Personal life:Malahide, real name Patrick Gerald Duggan, was born in Reading, Berkshire, the son of Irish immigrants, a cook mother and a school secretary father...

  • Kevork Malikyan
    Kevork Malikyan
    Kevork Malikyan is an English character actor of Armenian descent, perhaps best known for his role as Kazim in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade....

  • Richard Marner
    Richard Marner
    Richard Marner, born Alexander Molchanoff was a Russian-born British actor. He was probably best known for his role as Colonel Kurt Von Strohm in the British sitcom Allo 'Allo!.-Early life:...

  • Roy Marsden
    Roy Marsden
    Roy Marsden is an English actor, who is probably best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations of P. D. James's detective novels.- Education :...

  • Reginald Marsh
    Reginald Marsh (actor)
    Reginald Marsh was an English actor who is best remembered for starring in many British sitcoms from the 1970s onwards.-Early life and career:...

  • Bryan Marshall
    Bryan Marshall
    Bryan Marshall is an English actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name.Marshall was born in Clapham, London...

  • Paul Massie
    Paul Massie
    Paul Massie was a Canadian actor and academic. He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s...

  • Francis Matthews
    Francis Matthews (actor)
    -Early life:Matthews attended St Michael's Jesuit College, Leeds and started his acting career with Leeds repertory theatre before service in the Royal Navy.-Career:...

  • James Maxwell
    James Maxwell (actor)
    James Maxwell was an American actor, theatre director and writer, particularly associated with the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.-Early life:...

  • Lois Maxwell
    Lois Maxwell
    Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress.Maxwell began her film career in the late 1940s, and won a Golden Globe Award for the New Actress of the Year for her performance in That Hagen Girl...

  • Ray McAnally
    Ray McAnally
    Ray McAnally was an Irish actor famous for his performances in films such as The Mission, My Left Foot, and A Very British Coup.-Background:...

  • Neil McCarthy
  • Gillian McCutcheon
    Gillian McCutcheon
    Gillian McCutcheon is a British based actress who has appeared in many programmes over the years. She has played three parts in the ITV Soap opera The Bill, alone....

  • Henry McGee
    Henry McGee
    Henry McGee was a British actor, best known as straight man to Benny Hill for many years. McGee was also often the announcer on Hill's TV programme, delivering the upbeat intro "Yes! It's The Benny Hill Show!"...

  • T. P. McKenna
    T. P. McKenna
    Thomas Patrick McKenna , known professionally as T. P. McKenna, was an Irish actor who worked on stage, in film and television in Ireland and the UK from the 1950s.- Film and television :...

  • Murray Melvin
    Murray Melvin
    Murray Melvin is an English stage and film actor.The son of Hugh Victor Melvin and Maisie Winifred Driscoll, he is best known for having created the role of Geoffrey in the Shelagh Delaney play, A Taste of Honey, a role which he recreated opposite Rita Tushingham in the 1961 film of the same name...

  • Ralph Michael
    Ralph Michael
    Ralph Michael was an English actor. He was born in London, United Kingdom.His film appearances include: A Night to Remember, Children of the Damned, Khartoum, Grand Prix, The Assassination Bureau, and Empire of the Sun.Television credits include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dixon of Dock Green,...

  • Frank Middlemass
    Frank Middlemass
    Francis George Middlemass was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Algy Herries in To Serve Them All My Days and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in Heartbeat...

  • Frank Mills
  • Warren Mitchell
    Warren Mitchell
    Warren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...

  • Ron Moody
    Ron Moody
    Ron Moody is an English actor.- Personal life :Moody was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Kate and Bernard Moodnick, a studio executive. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was a Lithuanian Jew. He is a cousin of director Laurence Moody and actress Clare...

  • Stephen Moore
    Stephen Moore (actor)
    Stephen Moore is an English actor, known for his work on British television since the 1980s. He is known for his appearances in Rock Follies and other TV series such as The Last Place on Earth, the children's series The Queen's Nose and the drama Mersey Beat and the British TV comedy series Solo,...

  • André Morell
    André Morell
    André Morell was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s...

  • Garfield Morgan
    Garfield Morgan
    Garfield Morgan was an English actor who appeared mostly on TV and occasionally in films.Born in Birmingham, Morgan was apprenticed as a dental mechanic before going to drama school. He started his acting career with the Arena Theatre, Birmingham...

  • Aubrey Morris
    Aubrey Morris
    Aubrey Morris is a British actor perhaps best known for his appearances in the cult 1970s films A Clockwork Orange and The Wicker Man....

  • Robert Morris
    Robert Morris (actor)
    Robert Morris is a British actor.His film credits include: Frankenstein Created Woman and Quatermass and the Pit....

  • Wolfe Morris
    Wolfe Morris
    Wolfe Morris was a British film and television actor.He played character roles on stage, television and in feature films from the 1950s until the 1990s. He made his film debut in Ill Met by Moonlight. His grandparents were from Kiev and escaped the Russian pogroms, arriving in London in about 1890....

  • Bryan Mosley
    Bryan Mosley
    Bryan Mosley OBE was a British actor, known best as grocer Alf Roberts in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.- Early life :...

  • Patrick Mower
    Patrick Mower
    Patrick Mower , whose original name was Patrick Archibald Shaw, is an English actor well known for his many television and occasional film roles, often as a detective or secret agent.-Life:...

  • Declan Mulholland
    Declan Mulholland
    Thomas Declan Mulholland was a Northern Irish character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films....

  • Caroline Munro
    Caroline Munro
    Caroline Munro is an English actress and model known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.-Early career:...

  • George Murcell
    George Murcell
    George Murcell was a British character actor. His first wife was Josephine Tweedy whom he married in 1953, and his second was the actress Elvi Hale whom he was married to from 1960 until his death....

  • Brian Murphy
    Brian Murphy (actor)
    Brian Murphy is a British actor.Murphy was born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Although a prolific actor in many films and theatre productions for almost half a century, Murphy's most famous role was as the henpecked husband George Roper in the sitcom Man About the House and spin-off George and...

  • Valentino Musetti
    Valentino Musetti
    Valentino Musetti , often known as just Val Musetti, is an English film and TV stuntman and retired auto racing driver. Highlights of his career include finishing third in the Shellsport International Series in 1977. In 1978 he finished fifth in the Aurora F1 Series. In the late 1980s he drove in...

  • Patrick Newell
    Patrick Newell
    Patrick David Newell was a British actor known for his large size. It is reputed he gained weight as a deliberate attempt to boost his career, marking him out for some niche roles...

  • Anthony Nicholls
    Anthony Nicholls (actor)
    Anthony Nicholls was an English film, television, and stage actor.-Life and career:Nicholls was born Sydney Horace Nicholls on 16 October 1902 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the son of Florence and photojournalist Horace Nicholls. He served in the Royal Artillery...

  • Simon Oates
    Simon Oates
    Simon Oates was an English actor best known for his roles on television.Born in Canning Town, east London, and subsequently moving to Finchley in his teens, Oates trained as a heating engineer for his father's firm, before becoming an actor...

  • Ian Ogilvy
    Ian Ogilvy
    Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an English film and television actor.-Early life:He was born in Woking, Surrey, England, the son of advertising executive Francis Ogilvy and actress Aileen Raymond .He was educated at Sunningdale School, Eton College and at the Royal Academy of...

  • Kate O'Mara
    Kate O'Mara
    Kate O'Mara is an English film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps most widely known for her role as Caress Morell, the scheming sister of Alexis Colby in the 1980s American primetime soap opera Dynasty, though is also known for playing other villains such as The Rani in Doctor Who and...

  • Valerie Van Ost
    Valerie Van Ost
    Valerie Van Ost is an English actress.She is best known for her appearance in four Carry On films - Carry On Cabby, Carry On Doctor, Carry On Again Doctor and Carry On Don't Lose Your Head.At school she became the youngest adult dancer at the London Palladium before moving into films and...

  • Charles Lloyd Pack
    Charles Lloyd Pack
    Charles Lloyd-Pack was a British film, television and stage actor.He was born in London, England. He was seen in several horror movies produced by the Hammer Studios including Dracula, The Man Who Could Cheat Death, The Revenge of Frankenstein and The Reptile and Quatermass 2, the film version of...

  • Nicola Pagett
    Nicola Pagett
    Nicola Pagett is an English actress. She is best-known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.-Early life:She was educated at St...

  • Louise Pajo
    Louise Pajo
    Louise Pajo is a British actress, who is remembered by fans of Doctor Who for her role as Gia Kelly in the 1969 serial The Seeds of Death....

  • Geoffrey Palmer
    Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
    Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, OBE is an English actor, best known for his roles in sitcoms such as Butterflies and As Time Goes By.-Career:...

  • Judy Parfitt
    Judy Parfitt
    Judy Parfitt is a BAFTA-nominated English theatre, film and television actress who began her career on stage in 1954.-Life and work:...

  • Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969....

  • George Pastell
    George Pastell
    George Pastell was a Cypriot character actor in British films and television programmes. His real name was George Pastellides....

  • John Paul
    John Paul (actor)
    John Paul was a British actor.He is best known for his television roles, particularly as Dr Spencer Quist in Doomwatch and Marcus Agrippa in I, Claudius , both for BBC Television....

  • Jacqueline Pearce
    Jacqueline Pearce
    Jacqueline Pearce is a British actress.-Career:Jacqueline Pearce trained at the British stage school RADA and at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in Los Angeles....

  • Ron Pember
    Ron Pember
    Ron Pember is a British actor, best known for his role as Alain Muny in the 1970s BBC drama series Secret Army.Pember played the part of the psychopathic taxman in the Red Dwarf episode "Better Than Life"...

  • Arthur Pentelow
    Arthur Pentelow
    Arthur Pentelow was an English actor who was best known for playing Henry Wilks in Emmerdale Farm from 1972–91...

  • Morris Perry
    Morris Perry
    Morris Perry is an English actor, best known for his roles on television.Perry was born in Bromley, Kent, England. Credits include: The Avengers, Z-Cars, Champion House, The Champions, The Persuaders!, Doctor Who , Special Branch, The Sweeney, Survivors, The Professionals, Secret Army,...

  • Jon Pertwee
    Jon Pertwee
    John Devon Roland Pertwee , was an English actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge...

  • Edward Petherbridge
    Edward Petherbridge
    Edward Petherbridge is a British actor. Among his many roles, he portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in several screen adaptations of Dorothy L...

  • Vivian Pickles
    Vivian Pickles
    Vivian Pickles , is an English actress.She began her career as a child star after being chosen by Mary Field for a series of Saturday Morning children's films, including the lead roles in Jean's Plan and the serial The Adventures of Peter Joe...

  • Steve Plytas
    Steve Plytas
    Steve Plytas was an actor who worked in British films and television....

  • Nyree Dawn Porter
  • Eddie Powell
    Eddie Powell
    Eddie Powell was a British stuntman.Powell performed stuntwork in several films for Hammer Studios, serving as a regular stunt double for Christopher Lee. His credits during this time included portraying Dracula in Dracula: Prince of Darkness and the Mummy in The Mummy's Shroud...

  • George Pravda
    George Pravda
    George Pravda was a Czechoslovakian film and television actor.He began his career in Czechoslovakia, where he was credited as Jirí Pravda, and then emigrated to the United Kingdom....

  • Dennis Price
    Dennis Price
    Dennis Price was an English actor, remembered for his suave screen roles, particularly Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets, and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G...

  • Noel Purcell
    Noel Purcell (actor)
    Noel Purcell was an Irish film and television actor.-Career:Purcell began his show business career at the age of 12 in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. Later, he toured Ireland in a vaudeville act with Jimmy O'Dea....

  • Bruce Purchase
    Bruce Purchase
    Bruce Purchase was a New Zealand-born actor known for his roles on stage and television. Born in Thames, New Zealand, he won a scholarship to study acting in England, training at RADA, and went on to become a founding actor-member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre...

  • Keith Pyott
    Keith Pyott
    Keith Pyott was a British actor.He transferred from stage to screen and was a regular face in drama in the early days of television, appearing in The Prisoner, Out of the Unknown, The Avengers, and the Doctor Who story The Aztecs.He also appeared in over twenty feature films, including Orson...

  • Anna Quayle
    Anna Quayle
    Anna Quayle is an English actress. Her father was the stage actor Douglas Quayle.She has appeared on film, on stage, and on television...

  • Godfrey Quigley
    Godfrey Quigley
    Godfrey Quigley was an Irish stage, film and television actor.Quigley was born in Jerusalem where his father served as an officer in the British Army...

  • Denis Quilley
    Denis Quilley
    Denis Clifford Quilley OBE was an English theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre....

  • David Quilter
    David Quilter
    David Quilter is an English actor who has made numerous appearances in UK television plays and series since the mid 1960s.He was born in Northwood, London and attended Bryanston School, Dorset...

  • Ronald Radd
    Ronald Radd
    Ronald Radd was a British television actor.Radd starred in some 60 different TV shows between 1955 and 1976 including The Avengers, Danger Man, and Z-Cars...

  • Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

  • Moira Redmond
    Moira Redmond
    Moira Redmond was a British actress.She was born in Bognor Regis, England, the daughter of the actress Molly Redmond and her husband who was a stage manager...

  • Tracy Reed
  • Angharad Rees
    Angharad Rees
    Angharad Mary Rees is a Welsh actress, best-known for her British television roles during the 1970s, garnering notice for her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC drama series Poldark.-Career:...

  • Clive Revill
    Clive Revill
    Clive Selsby Revill is a New Zealand-born British character actor best known for his performances in musical theatre and on the London stage.-Early life and stage career:...

  • Edwin Richfield
    Edwin Richfield
    Edwin Richfield was an English actor.His film credits include: X the Unknown, Quatermass 2, The Camp on Blood Island, The Face of Fu Manchu and Quatermass and the Pit....

  • Arnold Ridley
    Arnold Ridley
    Major William Arnold Ridley, OBE was an English playwright and actor, first notable as the author of the play The Ghost Train and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Charles Godfrey in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army .-Early life:Ridley was born in Walcot, Bath, England where...

  • Robert Rietti
    Robert Rietti
    Robert Rietti , usually credited as Robert Rietty, is a Italian actor and director.- Biography :Born of Italian heritage, Lucio Rietti was “discovered” at the age of 8 by his father Vittorio who noticed the boy had completely memorized a copy of a script he had given Lucio having wanted help from...

  • Diana Rigg
    Diana Rigg
    Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service....

  • John Ringham
    John Ringham
    John Henry Ringham was a British character actor of both television and stage who appeared in over a hundred screen appearances in a wide variety of roles....

  • Christopher Robbie
    Christopher Robbie
    Christopher Robbie is a British actor, television announcer, theatre director and designer, playwright and photographer. He trained as an actor at RADA in London, and has had a distinguished theatrical career, playing the title role in King Lear when a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He...

  • Michael Robbins
    Michael Robbins
    Michael Anthony Robbins was a British actor known for his television work...

  • Christian Roberts
    Christian Roberts (actor)
    Christian Charles Roberts is an English actor. He was educated at Cranleigh School, Surrey and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art....

  • Ilona Rodgers
    Ilona Rodgers
    Ilona Rodgers is a British actress and television presenter who has lived and worked in several countries.In the United Kingdom in 1964 she played the role of Carol in The Sensorites, a six episode adventure of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who...

  • Guy Rolfe
    Guy Rolfe
    Guy Rolfe was an English actor born in London.He made his screen debut in 1937 with an uncredited appearance in Knight Without Armour. Notable roles include: Prince John in Ivanhoe , Ned Seymour in Young Bess , Caiaphas in King of Kings , and Prince Grigory in Taras Bulba...

  • Gordon Rollings
    Gordon Rollings
    Gordon Charles Rollings was a British actor who mainly appeared on television, but also appeared on-stage and in feature films. He was born in Batley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England and started his career in radio in Israel...

  • John Ronane
    John Ronane
    John Ronane is a British actor.An Emmy nominee for his role in "War of Children" for CBS, he lost to Lord Olivier that year....

  • Leonard Rossiter
    Leonard Rossiter
    Leonard Rossiter was an English actor known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series Rising Damp , and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin...

  • George Roubicek
    George Roubicek
    George Roubicek is an actor, and a dialogue director and script adaptor for English-language versions of foreign films and television shows. Born in Austria in 1935, Roubicek appeared in a number of small roles throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s, including the films The Bedford Incident, Billion...

  • Patsy Rowlands
    Patsy Rowlands
    Patsy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.-Early years:She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a...

  • Deep Roy
    Deep Roy
    Gurdeep Roy , sometimes credited as Roy Deep, Gordeep Roy, or just Deep Roy, is a Kenyan-born English actor, stuntman and puppeteer of Indian descent.-Early life:...

  • Jenny Runacre
    Jenny Runacre
    Jenny Runacre is an actress.Runacre was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She relocated to London as a child, attended The Actor's Workshop there, and trained in the Stanislavski System....

  • Robert Russell
    Robert Russell (English actor)
    Robert Russell was an English actor, perhaps best known for a memorable supporting role as John Stearne alongside Vincent Price in the classic British horror film Witchfinder General....

  • Douglas Rye
    Douglas Rye
    Douglas Forsythe Rye is a Los Angeles-based voice actor who has done Narration for such notable companies as Bank of America, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC, The Playboy Channel, Qwest, Carl's Jr. and DaimlerChrysler...

  • Peter Sallis
    Peter Sallis
    Peter Sallis, OBE is an English actor and entertainer, well-known for his work on British television. Although he was born and brought up in London, his two most notable roles require him to adopt the accents and mannerisms of a Northerner.Sallis is best known for his role as the main character...

  • Ivor Salter
    Ivor Salter
    Ivor Salter was an English actor who appeared in character roles in numerous United Kingdom television productions and films from the early 1950s until the 1980s....

  • Mike Sarne
    Mike Sarne
    Mike Sarne is a British actor, director and former pop singer.Sarne was born Michael Scheuer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. Active in the 1960s as singer, he is best known for his 1962 UK comedy number one hit, "Come Outside"...

  • John Savident
    John Savident
    John Savident is a British actor, best known for playing the part of Fred Elliott in the soap opera Coronation Street from 1994 to 2006. And also was a frequent guest on Soccer AM alongside fellow actor Jack 'The Rigger' Spooner....

  • Alex Scott
    Alex Scott (actor)
    Alex Scott is an Australian–British television actor best known for his appearances in British television productions of the 1960s, including The Avengers, Danger Man, The Saint and the final episode of Randall and Hopkirk .He made over 60 appearances on British TV between 1955 and the 1990s but...

  • Angela Scoular
    Angela Scoular
    Angela Margaret Scoular was an English actress.-Early life:Her father was an engineer and she was born in London. She attended St.George's School, Harpenden, Queen's College, Harley Street and RADA.-Career:...

  • Johnny Sekka
    Johnny Sekka
    Johnny Sekka was a British film and television actor.Born Lamine Sekka in Dakar, Senegal, the youngest of five siblings, his Gambian father died shortly after his birth...

  • Elizabeth Sellars
    Elizabeth Sellars
    Elizabeth Sellars is a British actress.Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She appeared on the stage from age 15 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts...

  • George Selway
    George Selway
    George Selway was a British actor who had a lengthy career in film and television.Coincidentally, he played a police sergeant in two films starring Hayley Mills: Tiger Bay and Sky West and Crooked ....

  • Athene Seyler
    Athene Seyler
    Athene Seyler, CBE was an English actress.Although better known as a stage actress, she first appeared on the stage in 1909 and made her film debut in 1921, and became known for playing slightly dotty old ladies....

  • John Sharp
    John Sharp (actor)
    John Sharp was a British television actor.He made more than 100 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. Sharp began as a film actor in 1949 and appeared in films throughout the 1950s...

  • Martin Shaw
    Martin Shaw
    Martin Shaw is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in shows such as The Professionals, The Chief, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently.-Theatrical background:...

  • Michael Sheard
    Michael Sheard
    Michael Sheard was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes.-Early life:...

  • Doug Sheldon
    Doug Sheldon
    Doug Sheldon was an English pop singer, actor, and novelist.Sheldon was born into a family of carnival businesspeople, and he worked as a barker while receiving training in acting. After completing military service, he landed a role in the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone and worked in small theatre...

  • Barbara Shelley
    Barbara Shelley
    Barbara Shelley is an English film and television actress.She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon , Dracula, Prince of Darkness , Rasputin, the Mad Monk , andQuatermass and the Pit among her...

  • Elizabeth Shepherd
    Elizabeth Shepherd
    Elizabeth Shepherd is an English character actress whose work has spanned the stage and both the big and small screens. Her surname has been alternately billed as "Shephard" and "Sheppard"....

  • W. Morgan Sheppard
    W. Morgan Sheppard
    William Morgan Sheppard , sometimes credited as Morgan Sheppard or W. Morgan Sheppard, is a British actor.Sheppard was born in London to an Anglo-Irish family but was educated in Ireland. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1956-58 before spending 12 years as Associate Artist with...

  • Vladek Sheybal
    Vladek Sheybal
    Vladek Sheybal , born Władysław Sheybal, was a Polish character actor, whose career lasted from the 1950s into the 1980s. He was probably best known for his portrayal of the chess grandmaster Kronsteen in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love, a role for which he had been personally...

  • Campbell Singer
    Campbell Singer
    Campbell Singer was a British character actor who featured in a number of film and television roles during his long career....

  • Patsy Smart
    Patsy Smart
    Patsy Smart was an English actress who is best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama Upstairs, Downstairs....

  • Nicholas Smith
  • John Standing
    John Standing
    Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet is an English actor.-Early life:Standing was born John Ronald Leon in London, the son of Kay Hammond , an actress, and Sir Ronald George Leon, a stockbroker...

  • Tony Steedman
    Tony Steedman
    Tony Steedman was an English character actor, perhaps best known for his role as Socrates in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure....

  • Peter Stephens
    Peter Stephens
    Peter Stephens was an English stage, film and television supporting actor, notable for his portrayal of the Bunteresque character, Cyril, in the BBC TV series Doctor Who series entitled The Celestial Toymaker...

  • Pamela Stephenson
    Pamela Stephenson
    Pamela Helen Stephenson Connolly is a New Zealand-born Australian clinical psychologist and writer now resident in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her work as an actress and comedian during the 1980s...

  • Jeanette Sterke
    Jeanette Sterke
    Jeanette Sterke is an English actress.Sterke was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents emigrated to England to escape the Nazis. She was schooled in England and attended RADA. Her first major chance came when she starred opposite Peter Cushing in the BBC's 1954 television adaptation of...

  • Julie Stevens
    Julie Stevens (British actress)
    Julie Stevens is an English actress, best known in Britain for her appearances on children's television. She married actor John White in 1961....

  • Roy Stewart
    Roy Stewart
    Roy Stewart , originally from Jamaica, began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television, at a time when there were few working black actors....

  • Nigel Stock
  • Malcolm Stoddard
    Malcolm Stoddard
    Malcolm Stoddard is a British actor who has appeared on television.His credits include: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Colditz, The Brothers, The New Avengers, Blake's 7, Squadron, By the Sword Divided, Juliet Bravo, Boon, The Bill, Families, Emmerdale, The Campbells, Heartbeat and The...

  • Philip Stone
    Philip Stone
    Philip Stone was an English actor.He was born Philip Stones in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Stone appeared in three successive Stanley Kubrick films: playing the central character's "Dad" in A Clockwork Orange , "Graham" in Barry Lyndon and as "Delbert Grady," the original caretaker in The Shining...

  • Kevin Stoney
    Kevin Stoney
    Kevin Stoney was an English actor, best known for his television roles.During World War II, Stoney served with the Royal Air Force....

  • John Stratton
  • Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland
    Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...

  • Dudley Sutton
    Dudley Sutton
    -Life:He served in the RAF as a mechanic before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which he was later expelled.Known for his eccentricity, he became a cult figure after playing a gay biker in The Leather Boys . He married American actress Marjorie Steele in 1961; she had previously...

  • Peter Swanwick
    Peter Swanwick
    Peter Swanwick was a British actor best remembered as the "Supervisor" in the 1967 TV series, The Prisoner...

  • David Swift
  • Gwen Taylor
    Gwen Taylor
    Gwen Taylor is an actress who has appeared in many British television programmes, including Z-Cars, Murder Most Horrid, Yes, Prime Minister, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders and Belonging...

  • John Thaw
    John Thaw
    John Edward Thaw, CBE was an English actor, who appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as Redcap, The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC.-Early life:Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Gorton,...

  • Gareth Thomas
    Gareth Thomas (actor)
    Gareth Thomas is a Welsh actor.Thomas is best known for the part of Roj Blake in the dystopian science fiction television series Blake's 7, but has taken roles in many other films and television programmes, including Adam Brake in Children of the Stones.Thomas trained at RADA and is now an...

  • Talfryn Thomas
    Talfryn Thomas
    Talfryn Thomas was a British character actor, best known for supporting roles on British television in the 1970s.-Biography:Talfryn Thomas was born in Swansea on 31 October 1922....

  • Eric Thompson
    Eric Thompson
    Eric Norman Thompson was an English actor, producer and television presenter.Thompson was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of George Henry and Anne Thompson, and grew up Rudgwick, Sussex, attending Collyer's School, Horsham...

  • Frank Thornton
    Frank Thornton
    Frank Thornton is an English actor who is best known for playing Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour and as Truly in Last of the Summer Wine.-Early life:...

  • Linda Thorson
    Linda Thorson
    Linda Thorson is a Canadian actress, most famous for her work as Tara King in The Avengers.-Personal life:...

  • Royston Tickner
    Royston Tickner
    Royston Tickner was a British actor.He was born in Leicester and trained as an actor at Scarborough repertory theatre...

  • Bud Tingwell
  • Geoffrey Toone
    Geoffrey Toone
    Geoffrey Toone was an Irish-born character actor.Most of Toone's film roles after the 1930s were in supporting parts, usually as authority figures, though he did play the lead character in the Hammer Films production The Terror of the Tongs in 1961Toone was born in Dublin, Ireland to English...

  • Harry Towb
    Harry Towb
    Harry Towb was a Northern Irish actor.-Early life and career:Towb's father was Russian and his mother was Irish. He attended the Finiston School and Technical College, Belfast...

  • Toke Townley
    Toke Townley
    Toke Antony Townley, born 6 November 1912 in Great Dunmow, died 27 September 1984 in Leeds, was an English actor.-Biography:His father was a vicar and he was christened John Townley, but his first name was then changed by his parents to the surname of an ancestor. After he left school he worked as...

  • Chris Tranchell
    Chris Tranchell
    Christopher P. Tranchell is a British actor, best known for his role in the television drama Survivors as Paul Pitman....

  • Frederick Treves
    Frederick Treves (actor)
    Frederick William Treves BEM, is an English character actor with an extensive repertoire, specialising in avuncular military and titled types....

  • Edward Underdown
    Edward Underdown
    Edward Underdown was an english theatre, cinema and television actor. He was born in London.Early theatre credits include: Words and Music, Nymph Errant, Stop Press and Streamline ....

  • Robert Urquhart
    Robert Urquhart (actor)
    Robert Urquhart was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.He was born in Ullapool, Scotland on 16 October 1921, educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and made his stage debut in 1947...

  • Anthony Valentine
  • Peter Vaughan
    Peter Vaughan
    Peter Vaughan is an English character actor, known for many supporting roles in a variety of British film and television productions. He has worked extensively on the stage, becoming known for roles such as police inspectors, Soviet agents and similar parts...

  • Wanda Ventham
    Wanda Ventham
    Wanda Ventham is an English actress, mainly on television. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama....

  • Richard Vernon
    Richard Vernon
    Richard Vernon was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles...

  • James Villiers
    James Villiers
    James Michael Hyde Villiers was a British character actor and a familiar face on British television...

  • Tony Vogel
    Tony Vogel
    Tony Vogel is an actor. He played St Andrew in Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth , and the title role in the 1979 television adaptation of Dick BartonTrivia: Graduated from RADA in 1963.-Known For:...

  • Hugh Walters
  • Thorley Walters
    Thorley Walters
    Thorley Walters was an English character actor.He is probably best remembered for his comedy film roles such as in Two-Way Stretch and Carlton-Browne of the FO...

  • Derek Waring
    Derek Waring
    Derek Waring was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in Z-Cars from 1969 to 1973...

  • Barry Warren
    Barry Warren
    Barry Warren is a British actor. As well as several stage and TV appearances, he played three major characters for Hammer Studios: Carl Ravna in The Kiss of the Vampire ; Don Manuel Rodriguez de Savilla in The Devil-Ship Pirates ; and Karl in Frankenstein Created Woman .-External links:...

  • Russell Waters
    Russell Waters
    Russell Waters was a Scottish film actor.Waters was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. He began acting with the Old English Comedy and Shakespeare Company then appeared in repertory theatre, at the Old Vic and in the West End. On screen Waters generally...

  • Gary Watson
    Gary Watson
    Gary Watson is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play Judith at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery...

  • Jack Watson
    Jack Watson (actor)
    Jack Watson , was an English actor who appeared in many British films and television dramas from the 1950s onwards....

  • Kenneth Watson
    Kenneth Watson
    Kenneth Watson was a British television actor. He is best known for playing Brian Blair in Take the High Road in the 1980s but he also played Ralph Lancaster in Coronation Street from 14 May 1975-13 February 1980. He was booked to play a farmer in Doctor Who: The Time Monster but was replaced by...

  • Richard Wattis
    Richard Wattis
    Richard Cameron Wattis , was an English character actor.He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and Bromsgrove School, after which he worked for the family electrical engineering firm before becoming a professional actor. After his debut with Croydon Repertory Theatre he made many stage...

  • Jerold Wells
    Jerold Wells
    Jerold Wells was an English actor. He appeared primarily in British comedies. Some of his best-known roles were in Time Bandits, where he played Benson, a mentally disturbed follower to Evil, and in Jabberwocky, where he played a footless man known as Wat Dabney.He starred in films including '...

  • Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a radio announcer who turned to stage and screen acting in the 1930s and was much seen in British films, being a television actor during the black and white era....

  • Carol White
    Carol White
    Carol White was a British actress.She achieved notability for her performances in the television play Cathy Come Home and the films Poor Cow and I'll Never Forget What's'isname , but alcoholism and drug abuse damaged her career, and from the early 1970s she worked infrequently.-Life and...

  • Paul Whitsun-Jones
    Paul Whitsun-Jones
    Paul Whitsun-Jones was a Welsh actor.He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Middlesex.-Career:Whitsun-Jones played the role of Mr Bumble in the original West End production of the musical Oliver!...

  • Brian Wilde
    Brian Wilde
    Brian George Wilde was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, including Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine...

  • Jeremy Wilkin
    Jeremy Wilkin
    Jeremy Wilkin is a British actor, possibly best known for his contributions to the television productions of Gerry Anderson....

  • Jerome Willis
    Jerome Willis
    Jerome Willis is a prominent British stage and screen actor with more than 100 screen credits to his name.Willis had a leading role in the ITV drama series The Sandbaggers as Matthew Peele. He also appeared in Z Cars as DCS Richards, Within These Walls as Charles Radley, and Doctor Who as...

  • Anneke Wills
    Anneke Wills
    Anneke Wills is an English actress, best-known for her role as the Doctor Who's companion Polly in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Biography:...

  • Douglas Wilmer
    Douglas Wilmer
    -Early life:Wilmer was born in London and educated at King's School, Canterbury and Stonyhurst College. He trained at RADA but was called up to the Army in World War II. Posted to an antitank battery in the Royal West African Frontier Force, he was invalided out after he acquired tuberculosis. He...

  • Frank Windsor
    Frank Windsor
    Frank Windsor is an English actor, mainly on television.He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. He began his career on radio and made an appearance in a 1953 film of Henry V...

  • John Woodnutt
    John Woodnutt
    John Woodnutt was a British actor.He was born in London, and at the age of 18 made his acting debut at the Oxford Playhouse....

  • John Woodvine
    John Woodvine
    John Woodvine is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.-Early life:...

  • Jack Woolgar
    Jack Woolgar
    Jack Woolgar was a British character actor working in television and film in the 1960s and 1970s.He began acting towards the end of the Second World War and turned professional shortly afterwards, working in repertory theatre and touring around the UK...

  • Peter Wyngarde
    Peter Wyngarde
    Peter Paul Wyngarde is an Anglo-French actor best known for playing the character Jason King, a bestselling novelist turned sleuth, in two British television series in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Department S and Jason King .-Biography:He was born Cyril Goldbert in Marseilles, France, the...

  • Jeremy Young
    Jeremy Young
    Jeremy Young is a British actor, born in 1934.He has numerous television credits, including Doctor Who , No Hiding Place, Adam Adamant Lives!, The Avengers, The Saint, Department S, Randall and Hopkirk , Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Softly,...

  • Richard Young
    Richard Young (actor)
    Richard Young is an American actor who has starred in film and in television. His first feature film part was in 1972. Among his best known films are the 1984 movie The Ice Pirates and in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning...

  • Zia Mohyeddin
    Zia Mohyeddin
    Zia Mohyeddin is a Pakistani actor famed for his voice.He was born in Faisalabad, , British India in a Urdu Speaking Family. He passed his early life in Karachi. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London from 1953-1956...

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