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- Colin Salmon is one of Britain's most renowned actors. With a bold voice and posture, Colin makes his characters a favorite among audiences for every role he plays. He made his feature debut as Sgt. Robert Oswald in the British mega-hit mini-series Prime Suspect 2 (1992), which gave him much acclaim among British audiences. He has a recurring role in the James Bond films as Charles Robinson, M's Chief of Staff. He has also appeared as the Commander James "One" Shade in the video game-to-movie Resident Evil (2002) and played Oonu, squad leader of the Skybax in the mini-series Dinotopia (2002) . His other film credits include Captives (1994), Immortality (1998), Fanny and Elvis (1999), Mind Games (2001), and My Kingdom (2001). His theatre credits include Ariadne at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Chris Gauthier was born on 27 January 1976 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Watchmen (2009) and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002). He was married to Erin Gauthier. He died on 23 February 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Actor
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Neil Jackson was born on 5 March 1976 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Stargirl (2020), The King's Man (2021) and Absentia (2017).- Actress
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Actress Emily Atack was born December 18, 1989, in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. Best known for comedy, she has appeared in numerous projects for TV, stage, and screen. In 2016, Emily played Daphne in the movie reprise of Dad's Army (2016) alongside Bill Nighy and Toby Jones. In 2017 Emily starred in Lies We Tell (2017) starring Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel. She was series regular Charlotte Hinchcliffe in all three series of the multiple award winning The Inbetweeners (2008); other TV credits include HBO/BBC's Tracey Ullman's Show (2016), Sky One's Little Crackers (2010), and BBC One's Father Brown (2013).- Director
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English-born "Army brat" John Badham is the son of English actress Mary Hewitt and the stepson of an American Army general. Raised in Alabama and schooled at Yale, he cut his teeth producing and directing for TV before making his feature debut with The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976). Badham's breakthrough credit was the box office smash Saturday Night Fever (1977), made the following year; other hits on his resume include Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), and Short Circuit (1986).- Actor
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Lee Ross was born in 1971 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Centurion (2010), Press Gang (1989) and Secrets & Lies (1996). He has been married to Jo McInnes since 1999.- Simon Chandler was born on 4 June 1953 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), The Bounty (1984) and The Lord of the Rings (1978).
- Sean Gallagher was born on 2 September 1965 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Our Girl (2013), Doctor Who (2005) and Coronation Street (1960).
- Sam Gittins is a BRIT school graduate, born in Luton, and raised in south London. He has been working professionally as an Actor since the age of Eighteen. Sam has received a host of acclaim from his industry for his work within Television and Film. Including a "Best Actor" award in the Southampton International Film Festival.
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Danny Cannon is an Emmy-nominated film and television producer, director and writer, known for executive producing and directing Pennyworth (2019), Gotham (2014), Nikita (2010), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), Judge Dredd (1995), and is responsible for executive producing the billion dollar CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) series franchise (which he directed the pilot of), along with the subsequent spinoffs CSI: Miami (2002) and CSI: NY (2004).
One of the top paid television directors in the entertainment industry and the only TV pilot director to also operate as a key writer, Cannon has directed 15 television pilots, 12 of which have been ordered to series including (in addition to the above): Training Day (2017), The Tomorrow People (2013), Dark Blue (2009), The Forgotten (2009), and Eleventh Hour (2008). At one time, Cannon had five television series on-air, while acting as executive producer.
Cannon is currently the executive producer (and a writer/director) of FOX's superhero series Gotham (2014-2019), which won the Critics Choice Award for Most Exciting New Series in 2014. His newest endeavor, as of 2019, is a 10-episode straight-to-series Batman prequel for the Epix Network, titled Pennyworth (2019), which he is currently executive producing and writing/directing in London.- Tom Chadbon was born on 27 February 1946 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Casino Royale (2006), Rebecca (1997) and Tess (1979). He has been married to Jane Hennessy since 20 July 1977. They have one child. He was previously married to Deborah Leathers.
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David Arnold was born on 23 January 1962 in Luton, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Casino Royale (2006), Independence Day (1996) and Godzilla (1998). He has been married to Ellie Pole since 8 June 1996. They have three children.- Kate Lansbury trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1958 to 1961. A very talented character actress, she excelled in the final year production of "Under Milk Wood". After leaving the Central School she went on tour with Rex Harrison and then pursued a career in both the theatre and on television. Her few credits on IMdb do not bear true witness to the quality of her acting talent.
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Stacey Dooley was born on 9 March 1987 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. She is a producer, known for Justice (2003), Blackpool's Dance Fever (2022) and Stacey Dooley Investigates (2009).- Actress
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Niky Wardley was born on 11 August 1973 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The Catherine Tate Show (2004), Silent Witness (1996) and Love & Marriage (2013).- Joanna Dunham was born on 6 May 1936 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Advocate (1993), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and Van der Valk (1972). She was married to Reggie Oliver and Henry A. Osborne. She died on 25 November 2014 in Saxmundham, Suffolk, England, UK.
- David Webb was born in Luton, Bedfordshire in 1931. His father was the son of a local baker for whom he worked until developing baker's asthma, after which he worked for a local brewery and then, until retirement, for the Vauxhall Motors Car Company. David's mother was the daughter of a local tailor and later hat manufacturer. David trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) after obtaining a scholarship there in 1952. Prior to that he was a pupil at Luton Grammar School, becoming Head Prefect before leaving in 1950 for two years' National Service as an instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps (RAEC).
After graduating from the RADA in April 1954, David began his career with York Repertory Company for a year and subsequently played with other 'rep' companies at Scarborough and Bromley. He then toured for a year in Emile Littler's musical "Love From Judy" and after did more 'rep' at Richmond and Worthing. Following a highly successful audition for BBC Television, he was summoned by the then Head of Drama, Michael Barry, and consequently launched into television, the medium in which his career has centered ever since, and in which he has made more than 700 appearances, playing a wide variety of roles, and working for all the major programme-producing companies. He was a prominent character in the early days of Coronation Street. Worried about the dangers of typecasting, he soon moved on, and, between the 1960s and the beginning of the present century, made well over 700 appearances in television programmes. These included Upstairs, Downstairs, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Tales of the Unexpected, Doctor Who, and The Avengers. He also found time for the cinema, appearing in, among much else, The Battle of Britain. In a profession which, notoriously, has an unemployment rate of 80 per cent, he was never out of work. He was at one point so committed to television, and so prolific, that he was mocked by some of his RADA friends as a "Telly Tart." His response was a magisterial wave of the arm and the explanation: "On the telly, dear boy, you don't have to get it right first time, and the repeat fees mean you'll never run out of gin." He was right. Even at the time of his death, it was an unusual week on ITV3 when David Webb is not seen and credited in one of its many repeats from the golden age of British television.
As an ardent opponent of censorship, in 1976 David founded the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA) and began his long campaign against the prudes and censors of every political and religious complexion. He ran NCROPA in the capacity of Honorary Director ever since. It is a law-reform organization championing the cause of the 'freedom of expression'. At the time the laws against pornography were, in their principle and intent, very clear - it was "No Sex, Please: We're British." Pornography was defined as anything a jury could be convinced had a tendency to "deprave and corrupt." Against this, David stated his own principle to anyone who would listen: "So long as it's by and for consenting adults, nothing should be forbidden."
In June 1983 he stood as an Anti-Censorship/Reform of Obscene Publications Acts candidate against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the constituency of Finchley at the General Election, he is a past member of the Council of the British Actors' Equity Association and a member of both the National Secular Society and the British Humanist Association. David has participated in numerous TV and radio debates, interviews and 'phone-ins' on censorship and often contributes articles to various publications and undertaken speaking engagements on the issue.
In private life, David was a grand, convivial character, who loved good company, good food, good drink, and classical music. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer early in 2012, and its progress was so rapid that he had no time to stop being the man his friends had all known and loved. He faced his end with the equanimity of a true follower of Epicurus. He died peacefully and in his sleep at Trinity Hospice in Clapham at approximately 5:30pm with his dear friend Penny and goddaughter Nikki by his side. He was 81. His funeral was at Mortlake Crematorium on the 17th July 2012. - Paul Sinha was born on 28 May 1970 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Comedy Cuts (2007), Beat the Chasers (2020) and The Chase (2009).
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Aaron Fontaine was born on 25 July 1988 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Outpost (2018), Hollyoaks (1995) and Tell No Lies (2024).- Writer
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David Peter Renwick (born 4 September 1951) is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990) and the mystery series Jonathan Creek (1997).
Before beginning his full-time comedy writing career, he worked as a journalist on his home town newspaper, the Luton News.
On beginning his comedy career, he initially worked in a team with writing partner Andrew Marshall, the pair of them providing material to popular sketch shows such as The Two Ronnies (1971) and Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979) during the late 1970s and early '80s. One of the most celebrated sketches he wrote for the former was a parody of the BBC quiz programme Mastermind, where a "Charlie Smithers" chose to answer questions on the specialist subject "Answering the question before last", adapted from his "Answering one question behind all the time" sketch from their The Burkiss Way for BBC Radio 4. Their short-lived LWT series for ITV, End of Part One, was an attempt to transfer Burkiss-style humour to television. Later in the 1980s they also wrote for the sketch show Alexei Sayle's Stuff and Spike Milligan's There's a Lot of It About.
In 1982 they penned the comedy drama serial Whoops Apocalypse for LWT, based on the insanity of international politics in the age of nuclear weapons, and four years later they adapted the screenplay (changing most of the characters and situations completely) into a feature film version. In 1983 they wrote The Steam Video Company for Thames Television, a short comedy series based on very silly parodies of famous novels. This was followed in 1986 by Hot Metal (1986) for LWT, a six-part satire of the tabloid newspaper industry starring Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer and John Gordon Sinclair. The show was a critical success and returned for a further six episodes in 1988 with a revised cast of Robert Hardy, Richard Wilson and Caroline Milmoe.
Renwick began writing solo in 1990 when he created the sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990), starring Richard Wilson, which was highly successful and went on to be a popular hit for the following decade. It also ran for four seasons as an American remake titled Cosby, starring Bill Cosby, although this is generally regarded as a very loose adaptation of the original.
In 1994 Renwick married his fiancée Eleanor Hogarth.
In 1997, Renwick devised the comedy-drama Jonathan Creek (1997), based around the crime-solving abilities of the eponymous designer of magic tricks, played by comedian Alan Davies. As of 2016, thirty-two episodes have been produced across five short-run series and five specials. The slow rate of production is partly due to Renwick's writing of the episodes, which he describes as being a painstaking process in which the intricacies of the plots take several months to work out.
He has also written for 'straight' television drama, contributing episodes to ITV's famous adaptations of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries, starring David Suchet. Renwick's fondness for rationalist murder mysteries with supernatural overtones, later developed fully in Jonathan Creek is evident in elements he added to the Poirot adaptations. In 1992, Renwick and co-writer Michael Baker received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Poirot episode "The Lost Mine", which aired in the U.S. as part of the PBS anthology series Mystery!.
Another comedy-drama Renwick has penned is entitled Love Soup (2005), starring Tamsin Greig and Michael Landes, premiered on BBC One on 27 September 2005. Renwick, and his ex writing partner Marshall, had cameo roles in an episode of the series as members of a television sitcom scriptwriting team. Owen Brenman also featured throughout much of the series as well as Doreen Mantle who appeared in one episode, both actor with who David Renwick had worked with before in One Foot in the Grave (1990).
He was awarded the Writers Guild Ronnie Barker Award at the British Comedy Awards 2008.- Actress
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Gurlaine Kaur Garcha was born on 20 September 1993 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for EastEnders (1985), Holby City (1999) and Doctors (2000).- Director
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Tommy Robinson was born on 27 November 1982 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is a director, known for ITV Evening News (1999), Niko Omilana (2014) and Hope Not Hate Exposed (2022). He was previously married to Jenna.- Born April 5, 1920 in Luton, England, Arthur Hailey decided to become a full-time author in 1956 following the success of his original television drama Flight Into Danger (1956). For the next few years, he wrote teleplays for such legendary dramatic series as Playhouse 90 (1956), Kraft Theatre (1947), The United States Steel Hour (1953), "Goodyear-Philco Playhouse" (1955)_ and Studio One (1948). Soon after, Hailey became a novelist. "Flight Into Danger" was adapted as a novel, "Runway Zero-Eight" (1958). In 1959, "The Final Diagnosis" became his second bestseller and, in 1961, "In High Places" became his third.
It took Hailey four years to write his next novel: "Hotel" (1965), which remained on the national bestseller lists for a full year. "Airport" (1968) did even better. It was on the national lists for over a year, staying in the number one spot on The New York Times bestseller lists for an incredible 30 weeks. "Wheels" (1971), "The Moneychangers" (1975) and "Overload" (1979) also claimed the number one position on the national bestseller lists, further establishing Hailey as one of today's most popular novelists.
In 1979, Arthur Hailey announced his retirement. At this time, he discovered he was very ill and underwent a quadruple bypass heart operation. The surgery was a tremendous success, leaving Mr. Hailey feeling invigorated and bursting with creative energy. His wife, Sheila, suggested he put his energy to use and write another book. "Strong Medicine" was the wonderful result. - Alison Seebohm was born on 5 May 1939 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Hard Day's Night (1964), The Avengers (1961) and The Servant (1963). She was married to Frank Cvitanovich and Ray Austin. She died on 22 February 2015 in Taunton, Somerset, England, UK.
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Joe Halpin was born in Luton, England, UK. He is known for FBI (2018), Chicago P.D. (2014) and The Oath (2018).