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Lynsey Baxter was born on 7 May 1959 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978) and Real Life (1984).- Actress
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Linda Henry was born on 24 August 1963 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Beautiful Thing (1996), EastEnders (1985) and Bad Girls (1999). She has been married to Stavros Valiris since July 1992. They have one child.- Actress
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Angela and her actress sister Hermione were born of a wealthy family with Angela making her stage debut at the age of 8 as a little orphan girl in The Dawn of Happiness. One night a police officer said that she was too young and wouldn't allow her to perform, The following year she auditioned at The Old Vic Theatre, When she was 10 a newspaper called her 'a consumate little actress, at 11 she was appearing in Shakespeare, as a teenager she was singing and dancing in musicals and pantomimes and became the 'toast of London. She retired briefly when she was18. She appeared in many plays but most enjoyed those by Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall, The Winslow Boy, Morning Star and The Light of Heart, which he wrote for her, She was married to theatre producer Glen Byam Shaw 1931 -75 and was awarded a CBE for services to the theatre- Actress
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Noele Gordon was born on 25 December 1919 in East Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Crossroads (1964), The Most Likely Girl (1957) and The Lisbon Story (1946). She died on 14 April 1985 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK.- Actor
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Terry Kilburn was born on 25 November 1926 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Lolita (1962) and Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947).- Was born in London but moved to France when she was only 3 weeks old. Parents Anne and Louis Duchene moved the family back to England in 1962/1963 to the seaside town of Brighton. Kate went onstage at the age of 14 and loved acting from that moment on. She read French & Spanish at Trinity College at Cambridge University.
She then spent a year teaching English in Spain. Kate received no formal training in Drama but she wrote and performed her own material with Cambridge Footlights Company before joining Mikron in 1983. She is best known for her acting in the children's TV show The Worst Witch as Miss Constance Hardbroom. The show ran from 1998 to 2001.
Kate has 2 children: Anna Charlotte Fitzgerald Duchene Hickson born on April 15th 2006 & Daughter Born in late May / early June 2009. - Actress
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Prolific and ubiquitous British bit player and dancer Pauline Lesley Chamberlain was born on October 2, 1932 in West Ham, Essex, England. The daughter of a piano player father, Pauline attended a French convent school in Palmers Green as well as learned ballet and tap at a local dance school. Chamberlain went on to attend the Aida Foster Stage School. Pauline and her twin sister Pamela were both featured as chorus girls in a 1948 production of the pantomime "Robin Hood and His Merry Men." The Chamberlain sisters went on to appear together in the pantomime "Robinson Crusoe" and did a tour of Great Britain in "Folies Bergere" for Bernard Delfont. Moreover, Pauline and Pamela were both members of Margaret Kelly's dancing troupe Bluebell Girls, appeared in revues at the London Palladium, and even performed in cabaret together in Brussels, Italy, Scotland, and Great Britain at the Dorchester as The Chamberlain Twins - What a Pair. A pretty brunette with a warm smile and a chipper disposition, Chamberlain first began appearing in films in uncredited minor roles while still in her teens in the late 1940's. Pauline could usually be spotted in movies cutting it up on the dance floor, as a guest at a party, or performing on stage (she was often cast as a showgirl). Chamberlain was featured in scores of films and a bunch of television shows in a career that spanned several decades. Pauline died at age 88 from complications of COVID-19 on January 14, 2021.- Actor
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Stanley Lebor was born on 24 September 1934 in East Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Flash Gordon (1980) and Holocaust (1978). He died on 23 November 2014 in Faversham, Kent, England, UK.- Actor
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Leon Greene was born on 15 July 1931 in East Ham, Essex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon (1980), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and The Devil Rides Out (1968). He was married to Jean Percival. He died on 19 June 2021 in the UK.- Actor
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Glen Murphy was born in West Ham, London, he boxed for the famous West Ham and Repton boxing clubs, then started his acting career at the Half Moon Theater in 1980. It was 2 years of more London Theater before he got his break on film with Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria. Glen was a London Champion in Boxing & Football & is a 3rd Dan karate black belt and still trains in the Kyokushin style martial art today with the 7th Dan Hall of Fame, Jamie O Keefe. In 1955 his father Terence was the first ever sportsman on ITV, His latest Film Lost in Italy (aka Lords of London) has won the New York Hells Kitchen Film Festivals World Cinema Best Film award.and he won the Abruzzo film festival "best actor" award in Italy. And is in pre-production with the feature film "Finger of Suspicion" due to shoot in 2019- Peter Birrel married actress Stephanie Cole only a few years before he died. They appeared together in a play early in both of their careers and met up by chance some 40 or so years later. Peter is widely celebrated for his role as the Draconian Prince in Frontier in Space: Episode One (1973)-Frontier in Space: Episode Two (1973) and Frontier in Space: Episode Five (1973)-Frontier in Space: Episode Six (1973).
- Kenneth Alan Taylor was born in April 1937 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Hollyoaks (1995). He has been married to Judith Barker since 1964.
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Vera Lynn was born on 20 March 1917 in East Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hellboy (2004), Rhythm Serenade (1943) and Lolita (1997). She was married to Harry Lewis. She died on 18 June 2020 in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK.- James Culliford was born on 8 September 1927 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Doctor Who (1963) and The Trygon Factor (1966). He died on 23 March 2002 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK.
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London-born actor and singer, possibly best known on the screen as Private Hitch in Zulu (1964), as Dr. Livesey in the musical version of Treasure Island (1982) and as the dapper lothario Steven Kodaly in BBC's adaptation of She Loves Me (1979) (based on the play 'Parfumerie' by Miklós László). He also had notable guest roles in two episodes of The Avengers (1961) and in the comedies Up Pompeii! (1969) and Carry on Abroad (1972) .
Kernan's first acting experience was with the Huddersfield Repertory Company at the age of 19. In 1957, he appeared in the chorus line of 'Where's Charley' at London's Palace Theatre. This marked the beginning of a substantial career as a singer in stage musicals. Renowned as an expert interpreter of songs by Stephen Sondheim, he was acclaimed for his performance in the original 1977 Broadway cast of Sondheim's musical revue 'Side by Side', opposite Millicent Martin. A year earlier, he had headlined as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in 'A Little Night Music' at the Adelphi Theatre in London. From 1980 to 1981, he appeared in 'Kiss Me Kate' at the Bristol Old Vic and Theatre Royal.
Kernan also devised and directed the musical revue 'Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood', which opened on Broadway in January 1986. During the 60s and 70s, he was a guest soloist in many British variety shows, performing songs by Sondheim, Cole Porter, Noël Coward, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer and Frank Loesser.
His 2019 autobiography is entitled 'From Eastham to Broadway'.- Make-Up Department
Christine Blundell was born on 26 October 1961 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK. She is known for Vera Drake (2004), Finding Neverland (2004) and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014).- Barbara Archer was born in 1934 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Horror of Dracula (1958), Up the Junction (1968) and Model for Murder (1959).
- John Dearth was born on 16 October 1920 in West Ham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Avengers (1961), The Escape of R.D.7 (1961) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). He died on 17 March 1984 in London, England, UK.
- Prolific and ubiquitous British background player George Hilsdon was born on April 25, 1907 in West Ham, London, England. Hilsdon first began appearing in films in often uncredited minor roles in the mid-1940's. A burly fellow with a gruff face and receding silver gray hair, George was frequently cast as policemen, news vendors, or security guards. Hilsdon died at age 75 on May 28, 1982 in Essex, England. Predeceased by his wife Ivy Lilian Benge, he was survived by two children.
- Vilma Hollingbery was born on 21 July 1932 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Babylon (1980), Funland (2005) and Doctor Who (2005). She was married to Michael Napier Brown and Raymond J Sleap. She died on 11 September 2021 in Hillingdon, London, England, UK.
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Born in East Ham, London, England in 1935, Terrance Dicks was educated at the local grammar school and went on to study English at Downing College, Cambridge. After two years' National Service in the British Army, he got a job as an advertising copywriter. This lasted for five years, during which time he started writing radio scripts as a sideline. Eventually he switched to full-time freelance writing, first on plays and comedy series for radio and then in television on programmes including The Avengers (1961) and Crossroads (1964).
He became a junior script editor on Doctor Who (1963) towards the end of the Patrick Troughton era, working under producer Peter Bryant and script editor Derrick Sherwin. During this period he has said that he felt like "something of a spare part", although he would make a very significant contribution in bringing Robert Holmes to the series, who would go on to become the series' most popular writer. Dicks also co-wrote (with Malcolm Hulke) Troughton's final story, the epic The War Games: Episode One (1969). Following the departure from the series of Bryant and Sherwin in 1969, Dicks formed a close working relationship with the next producer, Barry Letts, and they were responsible for the five popular seasons which starred Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. During this period they also co-created the science fiction flop Moonbase 3 (1973), which lasted just one series.
After writing Tom Baker's debut story Robot: Part One (1974), Dicks returned to a freelance writing career. He also script-edited some of the BBC's classic serials, which reunited him with Letts as producer on the likes of Great Expectations (1981) and Jane Eyre (1983). He was also made a producer for the first time on the highly popular Oliver Twist (1985), which according to Dicks saved the classic serial strand from Michael Grade's axe when he was controller of BBC One.
Dicks made two contributions to Doctor Who (1963) during the John Nathan-Turner years in the 1980s despite the producer's reluctance to use established writers. He wrote State of Decay: Part One (1980) and agreed to pen the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors (1983) when Robert Holmes turned it down. He has also written two spin-off plays, "Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday" in 1974 and "Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure" in 1989. He has written well over fifty novelizations of televised serials and several original Doctor Who (1963) novels for Virgin's "The New Adventures" range. Today he is, among his other writing projects, one of the UK's most prolific authors of children's fiction.- Actor
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Howard Pays was an English actor who gave up acting for representing thespians and other professionals in television and motion pictures, becoming one of England's most successful talent agents in the process. After being demobilized from the military after serving his National Service commitment, Pays became an actor. He made his television debut in the popular series Sixpenny Corner (1955) in 1955 where he met, and married, his co-star, Jan Miller.
In the early 1960s, Pays quit acting and opened the talent agency "CCA" in London. He and his partner, Freddie Vale, turned the agency into one of the most important in the U.K. and the English-speaking world. He was still a top agent at the time of his death, from cancer, in April 2002. He was 74 years old.- Director
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Kenneth Ives was born on 26 March 1934 in West Ham, Essex, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for The Lion in Winter (1968), 1990 (1977) and The First Churchills (1969). He was married to Marti Caine and Imogen Hassall. He died on 6 March 2022 in the UK.- Katherine Parr was born on 5 February 1921 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Woman in White (1966), Softly Softly (1966) and Doomwatch (1972). She was married to Dennis Caldwell. She died on 20 September 2009 in Deal, Kent, England, UK.
- Jenny Jones was born on 26 December 1943 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Front Page Story (1954), Raiders of the River (1956) and An Inspector Calls (1954). She was married to Reginald Winch. She died on 15 March 2018 in Great Totham, Essex, England, UK.