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1. Jeremy Beadle

Ultra Quiz

Jeremy Beadle was born on April 12, 1948 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Ultra Quiz (1983), Hot Shots (1994) and Eureka (1982). He was married to Susan (Sue) Maria Marshall. He died on January 30, 2008 in Westminster, London, England, UK.

2. Douglas Adams

Writer | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Born Douglas Noel Adams on March 11, 1952 in Cambridge. From 1959 until 1970 he went to Brentwood school in Essex, and his main interest was science. As a student in Cambridge he decided to hitch-hike through Europe to Istanbul, and in order to raise funds for this he took a lot of small jobs. In ...

3. Catherine Bramwell-Booth

Self | Everyman

Catherine Bramwell-Booth was born on July 20, 1883 in Hadley Wood, Middlesex, England, UK. She died on October 3, 1987 in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England, UK.

4. Shura Cherkassky

Music_department | So Little Time

Shura Cherkassky was born on October 7, 1909 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He is known for So Little Time (1952), Sunday Night (1965) and Music for You (1951). He died on December 27, 1995 in London, England, UK.

5. Diane Cilento

Actress | The Wicker Man

Diane Cilento was an Australian actress from Queensland. She had partial Italian descent. She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For a theatrical role as Helen of Troy, Cilento was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

In 1932, Cilento ...

6. John Copley

La Bohème

John Copley was born on June 12, 1933 in Birmingham, England, UK. He is known for La Bohème (2010), Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977).

7. Edith Day

Actress | Children Not Wanted

Edith Day was born on April 10, 1896 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Children Not Wanted (1920), The Grain of Dust (1918) and A Romance of the Air (1918). She was married to Pat Somerset and Carl E. Carlton. She died on May 1, 1971 in London, England, UK.

8. George Eliot

Writer | Middlemarch

Mary Anne Evans was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm, Arbury Hall near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Her parents were Robert Evans, the manager of Arbury Hall, and Christina Evans. She had four siblings: Robert, Fanny, Chrissy and Isaac. Mary was always considered a serious child and she always had...

9. Paul Foot

Actor | Neighbours from Hell

Paul Foot is known for Neighbours from Hell (2016), The Apocalypse Box and Peacock Season (2009).

10. Bruce Fraser

Bruce Fraser was born in 1888 in Acton, London, England, UK. He died on February 12, 1981 in London, England, UK.

11. William Friese-Greene

Director | Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea

William Friese-Greene was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer born in Bristol, England. He studied at the Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school. In 1871, he was apprenticed to the Bristol photographer Marcus Guttenberg, but later successfully went to court to be freed early from ...

12. Lou Gish

Actress | Where the Heart Is

Lou Gish was a bright and sassy actress of natural poise and comic edge. The daughter of the actors Roland Curram and Sheila Gish, she demonstrated her range in her last two stage roles.

At the tiny Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, west London, in January last year, she played General Pinochet's ...

13. Sheila Gish

Actress | Highlander

Sheila Gish was born on April 23, 1942 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Highlander (1986), Mansfield Park (1999) and Highlander: Endgame (2000). She was married to Denis Lawson and Roland Curram. She died on March 9, 2005 in Camden, London, England, UK.

14. Lukas Heller

Writer | Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Lukas Heller was born on July 21, 1930 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer, known for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Flight of the Phoenix (2004). He died on November 2, 1988 in Camden, London, England, UK.

15. George Jacob Holyoake

Writer | Men of Rochdale

George Jacob Holyoake is known for Men of Rochdale (1944).

16. Hutch Hutchinson

Music_department | The Wedding Singer

Hutch Hutchinson is known for The Wedding Singer (1998).

17. Bert Jansch

Soundtrack | The Squid and the Whale

Bert Jansch was born on November 3, 1943 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a composer and actor, known for The Squid and the Whale (2005), Rebecca (2020) and Downsizing (2017). He was married to Heather Rosemary Sewell, Lynda Campbell and Loren Auerbach. He died on October 5, 2011 in London, England...

18. Karl Marx

Self | The Victor Marx Story

Karl Marx was born in 1936 in Louisiana, USA. He was married to Kathleen. He died on February 13, 2013 in Santa Maria, California, USA.

19. Edna May

Actress | Salvation Joan

Edna May was born on September 2, 1878 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Salvation Joan (1916) and Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 8 (1915). She was married to Oscar Lewisohn and Frederick Titus. She died on January 2, 1948 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

20. Carl Mayer

Writer | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Carl Meyer was the son of a stock speculator who committed suicide. He had to leave school at 15 to work as a secretary. Mayer moved away from Graz to Innsbruck and then Vienna, where he worked as a dramatist. Meanwhile, the events of the First World War turned him into a pacifist.

In 1917 he went ...

21. Malcolm McLaren

Soundtrack | Suicide Squad

In the mid 1970s, as a young man not yet thirty, Malcolm McLaren owned and operated a London shop simply called "Sex" and dreamed of fame and fortune. He met a half formed group of teenage rock star hopefuls and fed them happy half truths about the great bands he had led to stardom. With his help ...

22. William H. Monk

Soundtrack | Logan

William H. Monk was born on March 16, 1823 in London, England, UK. William H. was a composer, known for Logan (2017), 28 Days Later (2002) and Drive Angry (2011). William H. died on March 1, 1899 in London, England, UK.

23. Henry Moore

Art_department | The Pythoness

Spencer Moore was born on July 30th, 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was an English sculptor and artist. Moore is known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures usually of the female body and other public works of art, many of which are located around the world. He founded the ...

24. Sidney Nolan

Art_department | Burke & Wills

Sidney Nolan was born on April 22, 1917 in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a writer and production designer, known for Burke & Wills (1985), The Rite of Spring (1962) and Paradise Garden (1974). He was married to Mary Boyd, Cynthia Reed and Elizabeth Paterson. He died on ...

25. Paul Poole

Visual_effects | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Paul Poole is known for Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003), Play with Me Sesame (2002) and Between the Lions (1999).

26. Ralph Richardson

Actor | Doctor Zhivago

Sir Ralph Richardson was one of the greatest actors of the 20th Century English-language theater, ascending to the height of his profession in the mid-1930s when he became a star in London's West End. He became the first actor of his generation to be knighted. He became Sir Ralph in 1947, and was ...

27. Anthony Shaffer

Writer | Sleuth

Anthony Shaffer was born on May 15, 1926 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Sleuth (1972), Frenzy (1972) and The Wicker Man (1973). He was married to Diane Cilento and Carolyn Soley. He died on November 6, 2001 in London, England, UK.

28. Nat Taylor

Producer | The Reincarnate

Nat Taylor was born in 1905. He was a producer, known for The Reincarnate (1971), Explosion (1969) and Dreamland: A History of Early Canadian Movies 1895-1939 (1974). He died on February 29, 2004.

29. George Thalben-Ball

Soundtrack | Seance on a Wet Afternoon

George Thalben-Ball was born on June 18, 1896 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is known for Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), Clean Slate (1994) and Alison Balsom - Der Glanz der Trompete (2010). He was married to Jennifer Bate and Grace Evelyn Chapman. He died on January 18, 1987 in ...

30. Feliks Topolski

Art_department | The Rake's Progress

Feliks Topolski was born on August 14, 1907 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He is known for Notorious Gentleman (1945), Face to Face (1959) and Poland's New Front (1942). He died on August 24, 1989 in London, England, UK.

31. Max Wall

Actor | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

He made his stage debut at 2 with his father, Jack Lorimer, a music hall star, At 14 he ran away to play the son of George Lacey's Mother Goose in a touring panto in which he was billed as 'Max the Boy with Obedient Feet or Max Wall and His Independent Legs ,Being a dancer his 'dumb act' didn't ...

32. Edward Wood

Self | The Good Soldier

Edward Wood was born on December 12, 1924 in Florence, Alabama, USA. He died on April 12, 2021 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

33. Alan Howard

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Alan Howard was born on August 5, 1937 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He was married to Sally Beauman and ...

34. Corin Redgrave

Actor | A Man for All Seasons

Corin Redgrave, a towering, award-winning force on the British stage but a lesser universally recognized third-generation scion of the acting dynasty, was the reddish-haired middle brother of his more internationally famous sisters, Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave who achieved widespread ...

35. Daniel Topolski

Oxford Blues

Daniel Topolski was born on June 4, 1945 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Oxford Blues (1984), True Blue (1996) and The Boat Race (1938). He was married to Susan Gilmore. He died on February 21, 2015 in England, UK.

36. Roger Lloyd Pack

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

A superbly versatile character actor of lugubrious countenance and strong physical presence, Roger was the son of Charles Lloyd Pack, a frequent supporting actor in British films of the '50s and '60s. Roger was educated at Bedales, a prestigious co-educational school in Hampshire, noted for a ...