Highgate West London, England
The men and women are interred at Highgate West Cemetery in Highgate, London, England.
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Charles Dickens' father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office, and because of this the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, Chatham. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn't earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start working in a factory, labeling bottles for six shillings a week. The economy eventually improved and Charles was able to go back to school. After leaving school, he started to work in a solicitor's office. He learned shorthand and started as a reporter working for the Morning Chronicle in courts of law and the House of Commons. In 1836 his first novel was published, "The Pickwick Papers". It was a success and was followed by more novels: "Oliver Twist" (1837), "Nicholas Nickleby" (1838-39) and "Barnaby Rudge" (1841). He traveled to America later that year and aroused the hostility of the American press by supporting the abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement. In 1858 he divorced his wife Catherine, who had borne him ten children. During the 1840s his social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage: novels like "David Copperfield" (1849-50), "A Tale of Two Cities" (1959) and "Great Expectations" (1860-61) only increased his fame and respect. His last novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was never completed and was later published posthumously.Memorial- Actress
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Beryl Bainbridge was born on 21 November 1932 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Rookery Nook (1953), Sweet William (1980) and An Awfully Big Adventure (1995). She was married to Austin Howard Davies. She died on 2 July 2010 in London, England, UK.- Writer
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Jacob Bronowski was born on 18 January 1908 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was a writer and producer, known for The New Yorker: Shorts & Murmurs (2015), Insight (1960) and The Ascent of Man (1973). He died on 22 August 1974 in East Hampton, New York, USA.- Charles Cruft is known for Crufts Dog Show (2005) and Crufts Dog Show (1966).
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David Devant and his Spirit Wife is known for Asylum (1996).- Fred Dove has been married to Chrissy Dove since 23 June 1990. They have two children.
- Freud is the grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In 1933, the year the National Socialists came to power, he emigrated to England with his family. Freud attended the Central School of Art and Goldsmith's College in London and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham from 1938 to 1943. He gained international fame through his portraits and nude paintings, which he created in a consistently realistic style from 1952 onwards. In his early work the artist was based on surrealism and neo-romanticism. But he quickly found his own image character, which was characterized by a realistic wealth of detail. The work entitled "Interior in Paddington" was created in 1951 and reveals its realism in the dark mood of the picture. Today the work hangs in the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. Freud's surreal images show mysterious connections between plants and people. In his nude paintings, the artist depicted naked, spongy bodies, which he often decorated with offensive details.
Another feature of these bodies are the partially visible veins that run through them. His first wife, Kathleen Garman Epstein, often modeled for him. He executed these subjects with unusual sensitivity. Later, Freud concentrated on a more expressive style of painting with a more pronounced contrast in color. In this way he created, among other things, a series of portraits of his mother. In 1939 Lucian Freud became a British citizen. In 1944 his first exhibition took place at the Lefevre Gallery. In 1948 he married Kathleen Garman Epstein. After his divorce, he married Caroline Blackwood. In 1954 he took part in the Venice Biennale. In 1982 a monograph on Lucian Freud was published, written by Lawrence Gowing. In 1982 Freud began using the technique of etching. The result is an extensive work that has an exciting interaction with his paintings. The artist's etchings and paintings stand side by side on an equal footing in his entire oeuvre. In 1983 the artist was made an honorary knight. His pictures have been present at numerous exhibitions around the world. In his etching work the artist implements all the themes that also occupied him in painting. This mainly results in portraits and nudes, but also landscapes.
Some of the etchings are realized in large format and impress with their complex line work. The subjects are not depictions of ideality, but rather show physical naturalness and unvarnished personality. Freud used a variety of graphic means and applied a sophisticated printing technique to bring out nuances and sensitivity. In 2002, some of his works were shown at Art Chicago. His work titles include "Girl with a White Shirt" (1951 - 1952), "John Minton" (1952), "Hotel Bedroom" (1954), "Naked Girl Sleeping II" (1968), "Factory in North London" ( 1981 - 1983), "Reflection" (1985), "Bella" (1987). In May 2002 his portrait of the British Queen Elizabeth II was exhibited. In the same month, on May 12, 2002, Lucian Freud received the "Jerg Ratgeb Prize", which is awarded every three years by the HAP Grieshaber Foundation, at the Spendhaus Reutlingen Municipal Art Museum. In June 2002, an exhibition of more than 140 of the artist's paintings, etchings and drawings opened in London. After the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008), the Center Pompidou in Paris showed an internationally acclaimed solo exhibition in 2010.
Lucian Freud died on July 20, 2011 in London. - British novelist Stella Gibbons was born in London, England, in 1902, one of three children. Her father was a doctor with offices in the poor section of the city, and her home life was not a happy one. She would make up wild, romantic stories to tell her brothers and other neighborhood children to "escape" from the poverty in the neighborhood and the tense situations at home. Her father home-schooled her until she was 13, at which time he sent her to the North London Collegiate School for Girls. At 19 she attended University College in London for two years, majoring in journalism (it was the only college in London that actually had a journalism course).
After graduation she got a job at the British office of United Press, decoding cables. It was here she became a professional writer, learning to edit out irrelevant text, keep the reader interested in the article and present facts clearly and and with some flair. She spent ten years on "Fleet Street", doing different jobs for different employers, and began writing short stories and poetry. Unlike many writers, she refused to use a typewriter, preferring to write her stories, plots, ideas, etc., with a pen in notebooks. Her best-known novel is probably "Cold Comfort Farm", which was made into a film (Cold Comfort Farm (1995)).
She died in London, England, on Dec. 19, 1989. - Additional Crew
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- Philip Harben was born on 17 October 1906 in Fulham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Pantomania, or Dick Whittington (1956), Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) and Dick Whittington (1949). He died on 27 April 1970 in Paddington, London, England, UK.
- Alexander Litvinenko was born on 30 August 1962 in Voronezh, Voronezhskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a writer, known for Assassination of Russia (2002) and My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder (2007). He was married to Marina Litvinenko. He died on 23 November 2006 in London, England, UK.
- Radclyffe Hall was born on 12 August 1880 in Bournemouth, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Trial of Loneliness and The Third Sex (1934). She died on 7 October 1943 in London, England, UK.
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Christine Rossetti is known for The Moment After (1999).Plot: Toward the front of the cemetery is the family plot of the Rossettis- Mrs. Henry Wood was born on 17 January 1814 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Ex-Flame (1930), East Lynne (1931) and East Lynne (1913). She was married to Henry Wood. She died on 10 February 1887 in London, England, UK.
- British character actor with radio and stage experience from 1951. Studied at University College in London and learned acting at the Old Vic Theatre School. Toured South Africa in 1952 and subsequently appeared in many Shakespearean roles in Stratford-upon-Avon. Busy television actor from the late 1950's, popular as ruthless tycoon John Wilder in The Plane Makers (1963). Also noted for his voice-overs for Winston Churchill in two documentary features.
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George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in Finchley, north London, in the United Kingdom, to Lesley Angold (Harrison), a dancer, and Kyriacos Panayiotou, a restaurateur. His father was a Greek Cypriot, and his mother was of English background. He first discovered fame as a musician when he and school friend, Andrew Ridgeley, formed the pop group Wham!. Success came fast and furious with their first album, 'Fantastic' (1983) hitting the UK number one spot. Wham! survived for five years and during that time the group notched up four number one singles and two number one albums. Most of their other releases made top three. George also contributed to the Band Aid Single 'Do They Know It's Christmas' (1984), and scored two further solo number one hits with 'Careless Whisper' and 'A Different Corner'.
Following the break-up of Wham!, George went on to have a hugely successful career as a solo artist, his debut album 'Faith' (1987) - and the single of the same name - both achieving instant and international success. The album has since been certified Diamond.
Over the last four decades George has notched up 8 number one albums in the and 13 number one singles in the UK (including Wham!, Band Aid, and the 'Five Live' EP). In the U.S. he has achieved 2 number one albums and 10 number one singles, with numerous other number one hits throughout the rest of the world.
He has performed duets with artists including Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Queen, and Lisa Stansfield, and actively participates in charitable causes, Live Aid and the Freddie Mercury concert for AIDS being just two of the more prominent examples. According to a BBC documentary, George donated more than five million pounds towards various charities. Whilst with Wham!, he donated all the proceeds of 'Last Christmas' (1984) to charity. The single reached number two in the UK and George also performed simultaneously on the number one charity record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'.
George released the single 'December Song' in 2008 as a free download: his hope was that purchasers would donate money to charity.
He remained in contact with his Wham! partner and long-time friend Andrew Ridgeley until his death in 2016.- Actress
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Demure British beauty Jean Simmons was born January 31, 1929, in Crouch End, London. As a 14-year-old dance student, she was plucked from her school to play Margaret Lockwood's precocious sister in Give Us the Moon (1944). She had a small part as a harpist in the high-profile Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), produced by Gabriel Pascal, starring Vivien Leigh, and co-starring her future husband Stewart Granger. Pascal saw potential in Simmons, and in 1945 he signed her to a seven-year contract to the J. Arthur Rank Organization, and she went on to make a name for herself in such major British productions as Great Expectations (1946) (as the spoiled, selfish Estella), Black Narcissus (1947) (as a sultry native beauty), Hamlet (1948) (playing Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's great Dane and earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination), The Blue Lagoon (1949) and So Long at the Fair (1950), among others.
In 1950, she married Stewart Granger, and that same year, she moved to Hollywood. While Granger was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Rank sold her contract to Howard Hughes, who then owned RKO Pictures. Hughes was eager to start a sexual relationship with Simmons, but Granger put a stop to his advances. Her first Hollywood film was Androcles and the Lion (1952), produced by Pascal and co-starring Victor Mature. It was followed by Angel Face (1952), directed by Otto Preminger with Robert Mitchum. To further punish Simmons and Granger, Hughes refused to lend her to Paramount, where William Wyler wanted to cast her in the female lead for his film Roman Holiday (1953); the role made a star of Audrey Hepburn. A court case freed Simmons from the contract with Hughes in 1952. They settled out of court; part of the arrangement was that Simmons would do one more film for no additional money. Simmons also agreed to make three more movies under the auspices of RKO, but not actually at that studio - she would be lent out. MGM cast her in the lead of Young Bess (1953) playing a young Queen Elizabeth I with Granger. She went back to RKO to do the extra film under the settlement with Hughes, titled Affair with a Stranger (1953) with Mature; it flopped.
Simmons went over to 20th Century Fox to play the female lead in The Robe (1953), the first CinemaScope movie and an enormous financial success. Less popular was The Actress (1953) at MGM alongside Spencer Tracy, despite superb reviews; it was one of her personal favorites. Fox asked Simmons back for The Egyptian (1954), another epic, but it was not especially popular. She had the lead in Columbia's A Bullet Is Waiting (1954). More popular with moviegoers was Désirée (1954), where Simmons played Désirée Clary to Marlon Brando's Napoleon Bonaparte. Simmons and Granger returned to England to make the thriller Footsteps in the Fog (1955). She then starred in the musical Guys and Dolls (1955) with Brando and Frank Sinatra; she used her own singing voice and earned her first Golden Globe Award. Simmons played the title role in Hilda Crane (1956) at Fox, a commercial failure. So, too, were This Could Be the Night (1957) and Until They Sail (1957), both at MGM. Simmons had a big success, though, in The Big Country (1958), directed by Wyler. She starred in Home Before Dark (1958) at Warner Bros. and This Earth Is Mine (1959) with Rock Hudson at Universal.
Simmons divorced Granger in 1960 and almost immediately married writer-director Richard Brooks, who cast her as Sister Sharon opposite Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry (1960), a memorable adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel. That same year, she co-starred with Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) and played a would-be homewrecker opposite Cary Grant in The Grass Is Greener (1960).
Off the screen for a few years, Jean captivated moviegoers with a brilliant performance as the mother in All the Way Home (1963), a literate, tasteful adaptation of James Agee's "A Death in the Family". However, after that, she found quality projects somewhat harder to come by, and took work in Life at the Top (1965), Mister Buddwing (1966), Divorce American Style (1967), Rough Night in Jericho (1967), The Happy Ending (1969) (a Richard Brooks film for which she was again Oscar-nominated, this time as Best Actress).
Jean continued making films well into the 1970s. In the 1980s, she appeared mainly in television miniseries, such as North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985) and The Thorn Birds (1983). She made a comeback to films in 1995 in How to Make an American Quilt (1995) co-starring Winona Ryder and Anne Bancroft, and most recently voiced the elderly Sophie in the English version of Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle (2004). She now resided in Santa Monica, California, with her dog, Mr. Gates, and her two cats, Adisson and Megan. Jean Simmons died of lung cancer on January 22, 2010, nine days before her 81st birthday.- Actor
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Bob Hoskins was described by the director John Mackenzie as "an actor from the British tradition but with an almost American approach, an instinctive approach to acting and knowing how to work with the camera". He was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was living after being evacuated as a result of the heavy bombings. He is the son of Elsie Lillian (Hopkins), a nursery school teacher and cook, and Robert William Hoskins, Sr., who drove a lorry and worked as a bookkeeper. Growing up, Hoskins received only limited education and he left school at 15, but with a passion for language and literature instilled by his former English teacher.
A regular theatre-goer, Hoskins dreamed of starring on stage, but before he could do so he had to work odd jobs for a long time to make ends meet. His acting career started out more by accident than by design, when he accompanied a friend to watch some auditions, only to be confused for one of the people auditioning, getting a script pushed into his hands with the message "You're next". He got the part and acquired an agent. After some stage success, he expanded to television with roles in television series such as Villains (1972) and Thick as Thieves (1974). In the mid-'70s, he started his film career, standing out when he performed alongside Richard Dreyfuss in John Byrum's Inserts (1975) and in a smaller part in Richard Lester's Royal Flash (1975).
Hoskins broke through in 1978 in Dennis Potter's mini TV series, Pennies from Heaven (1978), playing "Arthur Parker", the doomed salesman. After this, a string of high-profile and successful films followed, starting with his true major movie debut in 1980's The Long Good Friday (1980) as the ultimately doomed "Harold Shand". This was followed by such works as The Cotton Club (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), which won him an Oscar nomination as well as a BAFTA award, Cannes Film Festival and Golden Globe), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (Golden Globe nomination), Mermaids (1990), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Felicia's Journey (1999) and Enemy at the Gates (2001).
Hoskins always carefully balanced the riches of Hollywood with the labor of independent film, though leaned more towards the latter than the former. He worked at smaller projects such as Shane Meadows' debut TwentyFourSeven (1997), in which he starred as "Allen Darcy". Besides this, he found time to direct, write and star in The Raggedy Rawney (1988), as well as direct and star in Rainbow (1995), and contributing to HBO's Tales from the Crypt (1989) and Tube Tales (1999).
Suffering from Parkinson's disease in later years, Hoskins died of pneumonia at age 71 in a London hospital.