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Diana Dors was born Diana Mary Fluck on October 23, 1931 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. She and her mother both nearly died from the traumatic birth. Because of the trauma, her mother lavished on Diana anything and everything she wanted--clothes, toys and dance lessons were the order of the day. Diana's love of films began when her mother took her to the local movies theaters. The actresses on the screen caught Diana's attention and she said, herself, that from the age of three she wanted to be an actress. She was educated in the finest private schools, much to the chagrin of her father (apparently he thought private education was a waste of money). Physically, Diana grew up fast. At age 12, she looked and acted much older than what she was. Much of this was due to the actresses she studied on the silver screen and Diana trying to emulate them. She wanted nothing more than to go to the United States and Hollywood to have a chance to make her place in film history. After placing well in a local beauty contest, Diana was offered a role in a thespian group (she was 13).
The following year, Diana enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) to hone her acting skills. She was the youngest in her class. Her first fling at the camera was in The Shop at Sly Corner (1947). She did not care that it was a small, uncredited role; she was on film and at age 16, that's all that mattered. That was quickly followed by Dancing with Crime (1947), which consisted of nothing more than a walk-on role. Up until this time, Diana had pretended to be 17 years old (if producers had known her true age, they probably would not have let her test for the role). However, since she looked and acted older, this was no problem. Diana's future dawned bright in 1948, and she appeared in no less than six films. Some were uncredited, but some had some meat to the roles. The best of the lot was the role of Charlotte in the classic Oliver Twist (1948). Throughout the 1950s, she appeared in more films and became more popular in Britain. Diana was a pleasant version of Marilyn Monroe, who had taken the United States by storm. Britain now had its own version.
Diana continued to play sexy sirens and kept seats in British theaters filled. She really came into her own as an actress. She was more than a woman who exuded her sexy side, she was a very fine actress as her films showed. As the 1960s turned into the 1970s, she began to play more mature roles with an effectiveness that was hard to match. Films such as Craze (1974), Swedish Wildcats (1972), The Amorous Milkman (1975) and Three for All (1975) helped fill out her resume. After filming Steaming (1985), Diana was diagnosed with cancer, which was too much for her to overcome. The British were saddened when word came of her death at age 52 on May 4, 1984 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Television producer and host Robert James Keeshan was born in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. As a young man he served in the US Marine Corps Reserve. Starting as a page at the National Broadcasting Company, Keeshan later began his on-air career as the original "Clarabell, the Clown" for the NBC The Howdy Doody Show (1947) (aka "The Howdy Doody Show"). He was then the first host/performer of WJZ/WABC TV Ch. 7 NYC's "Time For Fun" / "The Johnny Jellybean Show". Keeshan emceed the show as "Corny The Clown" weekdays at noon from Monday, September 21st, 1953, to Friday, July 29th, 1955. He co-created, co-produced and hosted "Tinker's Workshop" with Jack Miller on WJZ/WABC TV Ch. 7 in New York City weekday mornings from Monday, November 15, 1954 to Friday, September 9, 1955. The show continued without Robert until Friday August 22, 1958. The later hosts of the show were Henry Burbig, Gene London & Dom DeLuise.
When asked to put together a show for children, he leaped at the chance. On Monday, October 3rd, 1955, Captain Kangaroo (1955) began its near 30-year run on CBS, until it was moved to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the 1980s. There was a lot of fun in the "Treasure House", with Bunny Rabbit swindling carrots before lunch from The Captain or Mister Moose finding yet another way to get the Captain to stand still long enough to drop dozens of ping-pong balls down on the ever-unsuspecting Captain's head. Dennis (Cosmo Allegretti) asking so many questions that Mister Bainter would almost always lose his cool. All the while during this, Captain Kangaroo taught us values and gave those with busy or absent fathers a gentle and caring male role model to learn good behavior and manners from. A love of reading was encouraged and the animals that Mister Green Jeans (Hugh Brannum) showed allowed children who had never seen a particular animal to experience it though his fascination with it. During its run in 1964, Keeshan also took on a Saturday morning persona as "Mister Mayor" for a year, but remained the Captain until the end of its run on PBS in 1993. Over the years he and the show won six Emmy's and three Peabody Awards, totaling nine awards, altogether, and he was also elected to the Clown Hall of Fame.
In 1989 he published "Growing Up Happy" and then in October of 1996 he published "Good Morning Captain: 50 Wonderful Years with Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo". Keeshan is also the author of the "Itty Bitty Kitty" children's book series. Widowed in the 1990s, he died in Vermont in 2004.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Lana Morris always appeared to be more confident and mature than the other post war British starlets. However, the big roles always escaped her and she appeared as a supporting actress in many British films of the 1950s. She later re-started her career, appearing as a professional panellist on many of the TV shows of the 1960s.- Additional Crew
- Actor
Prince Phillip was born on 10 June 1921 as a Prince of Greece and Denmark. His family was deposed and he lived in France and finally went to boarding school in Gordonstoun in Scotland. Eventually he sent his boys there. When he was 18 he met 13 year old Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth, his third cousin from their descent from Queen Victoria, his second cousin once removed from their descent from King Christian IX of Denmark and fourth cousin once removed from their descent from King George III. They fell in love, but her father King George VI did not want them to get married right away. Before they became engaged he renounced his hereditary royal title and adopted the surname of his uncle Louis Mountbatten. They were engaged in 1947 and married on November 20th of that year. Before they married he was created His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, but was not given the title of Prince until 1957.
Almost a year after their wedding they had their first child, a boy, Charles Phillip Arthur George. In 1950 they had a daughter, Anne. They were followed by Andrew and Edward. After the death of his father in law in 1952 his wife became Queen Elizabeth II and he had to give up the Navy to help her being that he was now a royal consort. He has been active with services and takes on a lot of public engagements for his wife.
In the late 1970s he became a grandfather when his daughter Anne had two children, a boy called Peter and a girl named Zara. His eldest son Charles had a son William in 1982 and second son Henry in 1984. His second son Andrew had a daughter Beatrice in 1989 and second daughter Eugenie in 1991. His third son Edward was created the Earl Wessex just before his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones; they have two children, Lady Louise Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor (Viscount Severn).- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was born on 4 August 1900 in St. Paul's Waldenbury, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She was married to King George VI. She died on 30 March 2002 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Susan Sheridan was born on 18 March 1947 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Black Cauldron (1985), Moomin (1990) and Midsomer Murders (1997). She was married to Max Brittain and Michael Sheridan. She died on 8 August 2015 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- Writer
- Music Department
- Actor
Worked in a tin mine, on a rubber plantation, as a gold prospector, as a bartender and as a professional bridge player before writing. The first Saint book, written when he was 20 years old, was his third book and the only one of his first five novels to feature the Saint. Wrote nearly a hundred Saint adventures in total, wrote the scripts for thirteen years of globally syndicated Saint comic strips, successful Hollywood scriptwriter and script medic. Spent much of his life travelling but settled for long periods in Hollywood, Florida and finally in Surrey, England, UK- Mary Kerridge was born on 3 April 1914 in Islington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985), Anna Karenina (1948) and Richard III (1955). She was married to John Counsell. She died on 22 July 1999 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Reg Lye was born on 14 October 1912 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Sunday Too Far Away (1975), A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965). He was married to Ruth Margaret Clyne and Phylis Alma Bessey. He died on 23 March 1987 in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
- Claire Adams was born in Winnipeg, Canada (her brother was prolific screenwriter Gerald Drayson Adams), and after her education in that country she was sent to a private school in England, where she studied drama. At the outbreak of World War I, however, she joined the nursing corps and spent the war years as a nurse. At war's end she returned to Canada, but soon left for California to break into films. She made quite a few pictures for producer Benjamin B. Hampton, whom she later married. She had a long career in silents, appearing with such major stars as John Gilbert, Tom Mix and Lon Chaney, but when sound came along she made one picture in 1934, What a Mother-in-Law! (1934), and then retired (Hampton had died in 1932).
She died in Melbourne, Australia, on September 25, 1978. - Actor
- Additional Crew
Bob Probert is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Probert played for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks. While a successful player by some measures, including being voted to the 1987-88 Campbell Conference all-star team, Probert was best known for his activities as a fighter and enforcer, as well as being one half of the "Bruise Brothers" with then-Red Wing teammate Joey Kocur, during the late 1980s and early 1990s.- Special Effects
- Visual Effects
George Gibbs was born on 18 July 1937 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is known for Brazil (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He died on 15 December 2020 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Michael Darbyshire was born on 15 October 1917 in Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969) and Pickwick (1969). He died on 20 November 1979 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- Prince Albert was born on 26 August 1819 in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German Confederation [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled (2014), Queen Victoria's Empire (2001) and The Windsors: A Royal Family (1994). He was married to Queen Victoria. He died on 14 December 1861 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- King William IV was born on 21 August 1765 in Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, UK. He was married to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. He died on 20 June 1837 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Stunts
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Eddie Eddon was born on 13 April 1925 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Willow (1988), Batman (1989) and The Pirates of Blood River (1962). He died in May 1999 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- George III was born on 4 June 1738 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Kings and Queens (2002), Eight Songs for a Mad King (2012) and History Extra podcast (2007). He was married to Queen Charlotte. He died on 29 January 1820 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Art Director
Keith Wilson trained for his profession at Rochester's Medway College of Art and Design. From the mid-1960's, he had a long association with AP Films and Gerry Anderson, who initially hired him as an assistant to art director Bob Bell. Promoted to production designer, he was especially noted for his work on creating scenery and puppets for Thunderbirds (1965), as well as for his contribution to the sets of Anderson's iconic UFO (1970). Even more highly regarded in the science-fiction genre was his work on Space: 1999 (1975). He not only created the sets for 'Moonbase Alpha' and many of the show's alien creatures, but his influence carried over into the areas of costumes, hairdressing and make-up. Consulting with the scriptwriters on a daily basis, he thus exercised a profound impact on the look of the series as a whole.
Wilson also won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special for Stalin (1992).- Jessie Bateman was born on 2 August 1877 in England, UK. She was an actress, known for Account Rendered (1932). She was married to Wilfred George Chancellor, George Augustus Ashfordby-Trenchard (actor) and Kenneth Duncombe Bond. She died on 14 November 1940 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Helen McArthur was born on 30 December 1943 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She died on 18 November 2004 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Casting Director
Weston Drury Jr. was born on 24 April 1916 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a casting director, known for Moonraker (1979), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Live and Let Die (1973). He died on 7 January 1994 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
- Producer
Barrie Melrose was born in 1937. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for The Fifth Element (1997), The Mission (1986) and Death on the Nile (1978). He died in 2013 in Wraysbury, Windsor and Maidenhead, England, UK.- Norman Welsh was born on 12 January 1925 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for Folio (1955), CBC Show of the Week (1964) and Playdate (1961). He was married to Dawn Lesley. He died on 15 March 2008 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
- Art Director
- Art Department
- Visual Effects
Ken Court was born in 1940 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an art director, known for Sleepy Hollow (1999), Aliens (1986) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He was married to Gilly Noyes Court. He died in 2006 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.- Actor
- Writer
Hugh E. Wright was born on 13 April 1879 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Silver King (1929), The Old Curiosity Shop (1921) and Carry On (1919). He died on 12 February 1940 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.