"in the BBC's natural-history programmes, including ""Animal Magic"" (filmed at Bristol Zoo). Bristol is the birthplace of 18th-century poets Robert Southey and Thomas Chatterton. Southey (born on Wine Street in 1774) and his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, married the Fricker sisters from the city. William Wordsworth spent time in Bristol, where Joseph Cottle published ""Lyrical Ballads"" in 1798. Actor Cary Grant was born in Bristol and comedians from the city include Justin Lee Collins, Lee Evans, Lloyd Langford, Russell Howard and writer-comedian Stephen Merchant. Bristol has 51 Grade I, 500 Grade II* and over 3,800 Grade II listed buildings in"
"George Leech (actor) George Leech (6 December 1921 – 17 June 2012) was a British film actor and stunt performer who was notable for his work on eleven James Bond films. Leech was born in London and left school at 14. He was a boxer who won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 as a welterweight and he joined the Royal Navy in 1943. His first job in movies was performing a stunt involving falling down steps doubling for James Mason in ""Odd Man Out"" (1947). He was notable for his contributions to James Bond films from 1962"
"(1960), ""Young Winston"" (1972), ""Gandhi"" (1982) and the acclaimed ""The Shooting Party"" (1985). On television Richard Leech appeared in ""Dickens of London"", ""The Barchester Chronicles"", ""Smiley's People"", three episodes of ""The Avengers"" in different roles, ""Redcap"", ""Danger Man"", ""The Doctors"", ""The New Avengers"", ""The Duchess of Duke Street"", and starred in a ""Doctor Who"" story called ""The Sun Makers"". He married twice, with Helen Hyslop Uttley and Diane Pearson, and had two children: Sarah-Jane McClelland and Eliza McClelland. Richard Leech Richard Leech (24 November 1922 – 24 March 2004), born Richard Leeper McClelland, was an Irish actor. Richard Leeper McClelland"
"the RSC what it is: he did not necessarily always play the leading roles, but proved by his presence that the company’s vitality lies in its strength in depth"". Jeffery Dench Jeffery Danny Dench (29 April 1928 – 27 March 2014) was an English actor, best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the older brother of actress Judi Dench. Jeffery Dench was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire to Eleanora Olave (née Jones), a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a physician who met his future wife while studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Jeff lived"
"Arthur Hewlett Arthur Hewlett (12 March 1907 in Southampton, Hampshire – 25 February 1997 in London) was a British actor. Hewlett made his stage debut in 1930 at Plymouth Rep, and his theatre work included the original British production of Bernard Shaw's ""Buoyant Billions"" at the Malvern Festival in 1949. He is perhaps 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"", ""Follyfoot"", ""The Changes"", ""Blake's 7"", ""Doctor Who"" (in the serials ""State of Decay"" and ""Terror of the Vervoids""), ""Shoestring"", ""Juliet Bravo"", ""The"
"Richard Leech Richard Leech (24 November 1922 – 24 March 2004), born Richard Leeper McClelland, was an Irish actor. Richard Leeper McClelland was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Isabella Frances (Leeper) and Herbert Saunderson McClelland, a lawyer. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Dublin, and qualified as a doctor in 1945. He worked in that profession from 1945–6, then became a full-time actor. His numerous film credits include ""The Dam Busters"" (1955) (playing Dinghy Young), ""Night of the Demon"" (1957), ""Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst"" (1957), ""Ice Cold in Alex"" (1958), ""Tunes of Glory"""
"Alhambra (1927), the Learned Judge (1928), the Sergeant of Police (1929) and Wilfred Shadbolt (1929). He participated in a 1926 BBC radio broadcast of ""The Mikado"", and as Pooh-Bah in a four-minute promotional silent film made to publicise the new production of ""The Mikado"". A 1924 photograph of Sheffield and D'Oyly Carte colleagues with the huge recording horn used in the acoustic recording process can be seen here. Later, Sheffield made recordings of comic songs with Cicely Courtneidge. Leo Sheffield Leo Sheffield (15 November 1873 – 3 September 1951), born Arthur Leo Wilson, was an English singer and actor best"
"killed in the Iraq War in 2003. His son, James Lloyd, is an actor who also appeared on ""The Bill"" between 2004 and 2006. Kevin Lloyd Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 – 2 May 1998) was an English actor, best known for portraying DC Alfred ""Tosh"" Lines in Thames Television's ""The Bill"". Born in Derby, Lloyd trained at East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex. Prior to appearing in ""The Bill"" he had already played the high-profile role of nightclub owner, Don Watkins, in the soap opera ""Coronation Street"". He also made appearances in a number of other TV"
"films and documentaries during his long career, including """" (1983). ""Although those performances renewed his popularity,"" observed Mel Gussow in ""The New York Times"", ""they represented only a small part of a richly varied career in which he played many of the more demanding roles in classical and contemporary theater—in plays by Shakespeare, O'Neill, Beckett and others."" Meredith was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Ida Beth (née Burgess) and Dr. William George Meredith, a Canadian-born physician, of English descent. His mother came from a long line of Methodist revivalists, a religion to which he adhered throughout"
"Jeffery Dench Jeffery Danny Dench (29 April 1928 – 27 March 2014) was an English actor, best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the older brother of actress Judi Dench. Jeffery Dench was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire to Eleanora Olave (née Jones), a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a physician who met his future wife while studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Jeff lived in Tyldesley with his brother Peter; later the family moved to York where his sister, Judith, was born. Dench attended St Peter's, York, where he began acting with the"
"stories on ""Jackanory"", the title role in ""Hereward the Wake"", ""Manhunt"", ""Going Straight"", ""Pie in the Sky"" and the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Curse of Fenric"" as Commander Millington. After Culliford's stroke in 1972, Lynch moved from London to Brighton until Culliford's death in 2002. Lynch died from cancer in 2003. Alfred Lynch Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was an English actor on stage, film and television. Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Roman Catholic school, he worked in a drawing office as a draughtsman before entering"
"appeared together in Series 2 of BBC drama ""The Lotus Eaters"" in 1973 and Series 3 and 4 of BBC series ""Sherlock"" in 2014 as the parents of the title character, played by their son, actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Timothy Carlton Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch (born 4 October 1939), known professionally as Timothy Carlton, is an English actor. Carlton was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, the son of Pauline Ellen Laing (née Congdon), who died on 11 October 2007, and Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, a decorated naval officer of both World Wars and a prominent figure of London high society. His grandfather,"
"monument"". Laurence Olivier Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles. His family had no theatrical connections, but Olivier's father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor. After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession"
"Andrew Hilton Andrew Piers Marsden Hilton (born 21 October 1947) is an English actor, theatre director, and author best known for the creation of the Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory company in Bristol in 1999. Hilton was born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated at Bolton School. He read English at Churchill College, Cambridge, studying under George Steiner and Michael Long. He worked as a student actor for Jonathan Miller (in the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company's ""Hamlet"" and ""Julius Caesar"") and via that connection entered the professional theatre as a trainee director at Bernard Miles' Mermaid Theatre in London. There"
"Richard Lynch Richard Lynch (February 12, 1940 – June 19, 2012) was an Irish-American actor best known for portraying villains in films and television. His film credits included ""The Sword and the Sorcerer"", ""Invasion USA"", ""The Seven-Ups"", ""Scarecrow"", ""Little Nikita"", ""Bad Dreams"", ""God Told Me To"", and ""Halloween"". He appeared in science fiction productions, including ""Battlestar Galactica"" (as Wolfe) and its sequel series ""Galactica 1980"" (as Commander Xaviar). He also appeared in such shows as ""Starsky and Hutch"", ""Baretta"", ""T. J. Hooker"", ""Blue Thunder"", ""Airwolf"", ""The A-Team"", ""Charmed"" and """". Richard Hugh Lynch was born on February 12, 1940 (sometimes"
"Richard Lynch Richard Lynch (February 12, 1940 – June 19, 2012) was an Irish-American actor best known for portraying villains in films and television. His film credits included ""The Sword and the Sorcerer"", ""Invasion USA"", ""The Seven-Ups"", ""Scarecrow"", ""Little Nikita"", ""Bad Dreams"", ""God Told Me To"", and ""Halloween"". He appeared in science fiction productions, including ""Battlestar Galactica"" (as Wolfe) and its sequel series ""Galactica 1980"" (as Commander Xaviar). He also appeared in such shows as ""Starsky and Hutch"", ""Baretta"", ""T. J. Hooker"", ""Blue Thunder"", ""Airwolf"", ""The A-Team"", ""Charmed"" and """". Richard Hugh Lynch was born on February 12, 1940 (sometimes"
"altogether. He died in Katowice in 1965. Lech Owron Lech Owron (6 July 1893 – 9 June 1965) was a Polish stage and film actor whose career began in the 1920s during the silent film era. Born in Radom, Lech Owron graduated from the Edward Rontaler Gimnazjum in Warsaw, he then studied mining engineering in Mons, Belgium. During the outbreak of World War I, he was in Russia and returned to Poland in 1919 where he became the director of the newly formed Quid Pro Quo Theater in Warsaw. He also worked as bank clerk in the early 1920s. Owron"
"""War & Peace"". Robin Langford Robin W. J. Langford (12 September 1953 – 22 November 2014) was an English actor, writer and director. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, he acted at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia at the age of 12, and in his first film, at the age of 12 he played Elizabeth Taylor’s son (with Richard Burton, Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Peter Ustinov). He also played many film and television roles, as well as directed in the theatre. Notable TV credits include: ""The Duchess of Duke Street"", ""Smiley's People"""
"Kevin Lloyd Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 – 2 May 1998) was an English actor, best known for portraying DC Alfred ""Tosh"" Lines in Thames Television's ""The Bill"". Born in Derby, Lloyd trained at East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex. Prior to appearing in ""The Bill"" he had already played the high-profile role of nightclub owner, Don Watkins, in the soap opera ""Coronation Street"". He also made appearances in a number of other TV shows, including the first series of ""Starting Out"", ""Boon"", ""Minder"", ""Dear John"", ""Farrington of the F.O."", ""Dempsey and Makepeace"", ""Z-Cars"", ""Andy Capp"", ""Auf Wiedersehen"
"Leo Sheffield Leo Sheffield (15 November 1873 – 3 September 1951), born Arthur Leo Wilson, was an English singer and actor best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. He made his first stage appearances under the direction of W. S. Gilbert in 1906, remaining with the D'Oyly Carte company for three years. After touring in musical theatre for the next five years with other managements, he rejoined D'Oyly Carte from 1915 to 1928 in the principal baritone roles, appearing in London seasons and on tour in Britain and, in"
"""Clash of the Titans"" (1981), ""Gangs of New York"" (2002), ""Johnny English"" (2003), ""Alexander"" (2004), ""V for Vendetta"" (2005), ""Quantum of Solace"" (2008), ""Red 2"" (2013) and ""Jupiter Ascending"" (2015). Pigott-Smith was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the son of Margaret Muriel (née Goodman) and Harry Thomas Pigott-Smith, who was a journalist. He was educated at Wyggeston Boys' School, Leicester, King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon and Bristol University. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. After a long career in smaller roles, Pigott-Smith's appearance as Arthur Llewellyn Davies in the BBC's ""The Lost Boys"" mini-series led"
"daughter Loy. Tony Hale Anthony Hale (born September 30, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series ""Arrested Development"" as the neurotic Buster Bluth. Since 2012, he has played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy ""Veep"", for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Hale was born in West Point, New York. His mother, Rita (née Garnett), worked as a staff assistant to State Representative Kathy Ashe, and his father, Mike Hale, taught nuclear and atomic physics and served"
"1970, in Santa Barbara, California. He was survived by his wife, a daughter, a son and four grandchildren. His body was cremated, with the ashes taken to his native city of Dublin and buried with full military honours in Deans Grange Cemetery. Arthur Shields Arthur Shields (15 February 1896 – 27 April 1970) was an Irish actor on television, stage and film. Born into an Irish Protestant family in Portobello, Dublin, Shields started acting in the Abbey Theatre when he was 17 years old. He was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Barry Fitzgerald. They were the sons of Adolphus"
"is now playing the role of Dylan in EastEnders. Ricci Harnett Ricci Harnett (born 8 February 1975) is an English actor, best known for his role as Carlton Leach in the film ""Rise of the Footsoldier"". Harnett was born in London. Used to work in Watford B and Q He made his screen debutin ""The Object of Beauty"" alongside John Malkovich. He also appeared in the film ""28 Days Later"" as Corporal Mitchell. Harnett played the lead character of Carroll Bailey in Porcelain Film's 2009 film ""Breathe"". Harnett has made a number of appearances on popular television series such as"
"and disliked, and hated and admired, but never, I think, sufficiently loved by any but its three leading actors."" The play was adapted into a film in 1933, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, and starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins. It first played in London in 1939 and has enjoyed a number of stage revivals. Coward had known Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne since his first trip to New York in 1921, when he was penniless, and they were scarcely better off. Dreaming of future stardom, they resolved that when all three were"
"Ritchie Coster Ritchie Coster (born 1 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Dietrich Banning in ""The Tuxedo"" (2002), Chechen in ""The Dark Knight"" (2008), Elias Kassar in ""Blackhat"" (2015), Mayor Austin Chessani on the second season of the HBO anthology television series ""True Detective"" and Francisco Scaramucci / Mr. Blue on the SyFy television series ""Happy!"". Coster was born in London, England. He attended the Latymer School, Edmonton and later trained in acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Coster has played varies roles throughout his career, in the"
"to 1985 as a stunt performer and in small acting roles (usually as a henchman) including: ""Dr. No"" (1962), ""Goldfinger"" (1964), ""Thunderball"" (1965), ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" (1969), ""For Your Eyes Only"" (1981), and ""A View to a Kill"" (1985). He also worked on ""The Guns of Navarone, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Kelly's Heroes, The Eagle Has Landed and Revenge of the Pink Panther"". He married in 1952. One of his two daughters Wendy Leech became one of the first female stunt performers and married the stuntman Vic Armstrong. Leech died at age 90 in Cardiff. George Leech (actor)"
"Louis Aldrich Louis Aldrich, ""né"" Salma Lyon, (October 1, 1843 – June 17, 1901) was a stage actor who later became president of the Actors' Fund of America. Aldrich was born at sea while his mother was on her way from Germany to the United States. He was later adopted by a family living in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Whitewater College in Wayne County, Indiana through 1857. He went on tour as a child actor playing Richard III, Macbeth, and Shylock, Claude Melnotte, Young Norval and other heroes of the classic drama before 1857, being billed under various titles, such"
"Tony Hale Anthony Hale (born September 30, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series ""Arrested Development"" as the neurotic Buster Bluth. Since 2012, he has played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy ""Veep"", for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Hale was born in West Point, New York. His mother, Rita (née Garnett), worked as a staff assistant to State Representative Kathy Ashe, and his father, Mike Hale, taught nuclear and atomic physics and served in the"
"Vain"" and ""Working Class Hero"" in 1982 and 1983 respectively. Between 1981 and 1989 he penned scripts for Coronation Street - quite notably making him the only (regular) member of the cast to write for the programme. He died on 21 September 2004 of cancer in Cambridge aged 53. He was survived by wife Janet and two daughters. Bob Mason (actor) Bob Mason (29 July 1951 – 21 September 2004) was a British actor and writer, born in Rochdale, Lancashire. Throughout 1976 he played Terry Bradshaw in ""Coronation Street"" and later as Sergeant Eddie Slater in ""The Lakes"" in 1997."
"first volunteered with the organization after his goddaughter was diagnosed with leukemia. G. W. Bailey George William Bailey (born August 27, 1944) is an American stage, television and film actor. Although he appeared in many dramatic roles, he may be best remembered for his ""crusty"" comedic characters such as Staff Sergeant Luther Rizzo in ""M*A*S*H"" (TV series 1979–1983); Lieutenant/Captain Thaddeus Harris in the ""Police Academy"" films (1984–1994) and Captain Felix Maxwell in ""Mannequin"" (1987). He played the role of Detective Lieutenant Louie Provenza on TNT's television crime drama ""The Closer"", and its spinoff series ""Major Crimes"", from 2005 to 2018."
"""The Third Man"", ""The Blue Lamp"", ""The Battle of the River Plate"", and ""Whistle Down the Wind"". He died of stomach cancer on 16 January 1981, aged 73. Lee was born on 10 January 1908, the son of Nellie (née Smith) and Edmund James Lee. He was born in either County Cork in what is now the Republic of Ireland, or Brentford, London. Lee's father was also an actor and Bernard's first appearance on stage in 1914, at the age of six, was with his father in a sketch called ""The Double Event"" at the Oxford Music Hall in London."
"Robin Langford Robin W. J. Langford (12 September 1953 – 22 November 2014) was an English actor, writer and director. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, he acted at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia at the age of 12, and in his first film, at the age of 12 he played Elizabeth Taylor’s son (with Richard Burton, Sir Alec Guinness and Sir Peter Ustinov). He also played many film and television roles, as well as directed in the theatre. Notable TV credits include: ""The Duchess of Duke Street"", ""Smiley's People"" and ""The Tripods"","