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Peter Gadiot was born in Haywards Heath, in the United Kingdom. He grew up in East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.
He trained at the prestigious Drama Centre London.
In addition to acting on stage and screen he has written and directed several short films and is an active campaigner against human trafficking, actually rowing the Atlantic Ocean in support of his cause.- Anna Massey was born on 11 August 1937 in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Frenzy (1972) and The Machinist (2004). She was married to Dr. Uri Andres and Jeremy Brett. She died on 2 July 2011 in London, England, UK.
- Haydn Gwynne was fluent in French and Italian. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Warwick before taking a five-year lectureship in Italy, where she taught English. She also drove across the United States before becoming an actress in her mid-twenties.
She first came to notice on television as starring in the David Lodge campus comedy/drama Nice Work (1989), before joining the sharp comedy series set in a television newsroom, Drop the Dead Donkey (1990). She was known for her roles in the medical series Peak Practice (1993) and the police drama Merseybeat (2001), but later played in the stage musicals 'Billy Elliot' and 'Ziegfeld'.
She lived in London with her partner Jason Phipps, a psychotherapist, and their two sons, Orlando and Harry. Offscreen, she volunteered for Sightsavers, a group committed to combating blindness in under-developed countries. - Brenock O'Connor was born on 9 April 2000 in Sackville Road, Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Game of Thrones (2011), Dickensian (2015) and Alex Rider (2020).
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Lucy Brown is an English writer, actor and director. She recently received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Independent Film Festival in 2022, Best Feature at the London Independent Film Awards and the Best Narrative Feature award at the LA Independents Women Film Awards for her directorial debut 'Eve' within the feature 'Everything I'll ever tell my daughter.' Lucy's second screenplay 'Bride Or Groom' (which she co-wrote and produced by Stigma Films) came second in the Brit List (UK's Black List equivalent). As an actor Lucy first gained attention for her portrayal of Celia Burroughs opposite Sean Bean in a highly anticipated special event television revival of Sharpe's Challenge. From there she became more widely recognized as the mysterious Claudia Brown/ Jenny Lewis character in the popular and award winning British TV series Primeval.- Actor
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Daniel Betts was born in 1971 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England. He trained under Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes at the Drama Centre, London, graduating in 1993. His varied career has included many roles on the British and International stage, as well as TV and film work including Fury (2014), and the upcoming Brad Pitt films War Machine (2016) and Allied (2016).- Actor
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Harry Enfield was born on 30 May 1961 in Horsham, Sussex [now West Sussex], England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s (2014) and Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul (2007). He has been married to Lucy Lyster since February 1997. They have three children.- Rollo Weeks was born on March 20, 1987 in Chichester, West Sussex, UK. He is the son of Robin and Susan Weeks, and the brother of Honeysuckle Weeks and Perdita Weeks (also actors). His name means 'famous wolf' after his family's most traceable ancestor (a viking). He has been acting since the age of two. He used to attend Sylvia Young's Theater School, but now attends Stowe. His debut film was The Little Vampire (2000), which was directed by Ulrich Edel. In the future, Rollo hopes to be either a pro skateboarder, a successful businessman, or a famous actor.
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David Ryall was born on 5 January 1935 in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Automata (2014) and City of Ember (2008). He was married to Penny England, Cathy Buchwald and Gillian Eddison. He died on 25 December 2014 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Noah Huntley was born on 7 September 1974 in West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), 28 Days Later (2002) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).- Cordelia Bugeja was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), The IT Crowd (2006) and Family Affairs (1997).
- British character actress, on stage from 1894. Her many notable theatrical appearances include "Little Lord Fauntleroy" at the Prince's Theatre in Bristol, and, as Lady McClean, in "Escape Me Never" at the Apollo in London (1933) - a part she subsequently took to Broadway two years later. Until well into her seventies, Katie's screen career consisted almost exclusively of smallish parts, until she was cast as sweet, frail Mrs. Wilberforce in the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955). A most quintessentially British role, it finds her in a crumbling boarding house with dodgy plumbing, surrounded by Victorian memorabilia, a parrot named General Gordon, and an assortment of genteel, but pixillated, old friends. Her innocence and moral fortitude ultimately precipitate the downfall of a gang of bank robbers, posing as a string quartet.
This was the defining role of Katie's career and it won her the 1955 BAFTA Award as Best Actress. She had another juicy role, as eavesdropping would-be sleuth Aunt Alice, in How to Murder a Rich Uncle (1957). Sadly, there was to be no more from this delightful scene stealer, as she passed away shortly after, at the age of 78. - Actress
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Moira Redmond was born on 14 July 1928 in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Shot in the Dark (1964), Melissa (1974) and The Winter's Tale (1967). She was married to Herbert Wise and Anthony Hughes. She died on 16 March 2006 in London, England, UK.- James Weber Brown was born on 14 September 1971 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Doom: Annihilation (2019) and The Oxford Murders (2008).
- Ciarán Strange was born on 8 August 1989 in Selsey, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Borderlands 3 (2019), Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (2022) and Chainsaw Man (2022).
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Charlie Bentley was born in 1992 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor and assistant director, known for National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018), Peter Rabid (2024) and See You in Hell (2023).- Actor
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Steven Swadling was born on May 7, 1969, in Shoreham-by-Sea, England, to Christine Elizabeth (Parmiter) and Michael Barry Swadling, an electrician and has one older sibling.
Heavily influenced by Richard Burton, he was steadfast to pursue an acting career at a very early age and performed on stage whenever the opportunity arose. He joined the Connaught theatre group in 1983 and wrote a stage musical production that was later entered in to the Chichester festival. He visited Orange County just outside of LA in 1985 to study martial arts for 6 weeks then returned to England with a plan. In 1987 that plan came to fruition and Steven returned to the US and earned his Black Belt in Karate. He trained hard and learned fight coordination as his segue into film. He studied at the Van Mar Academy of Motion picture and has also studied at Sanford Meisner's PlayhouseWest, founded by Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum.
In late 1996, Steven decided to step away from the industry to raise a family and also build a foundation for his businesses. His entrepreneurial abilities helped him form a full-service advertising agency, a children's book publishing company, a film production company, Room In The Sky Films.
After establishing his place back in the industry, Steven's breakthrough moment came with Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016) starring former world champion Dave Bautista from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Alain Moussi Gina Carano and world renowned, Jean-Claude Van Damme Steven was a fundamental component for the franchise reboot of the Kickboxer (1989) classic, and served not only as an executive producer but also the role of Joseph King. Steven went on to also executive produce the second installment of the trilogy Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018) again starring Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme with the additions of Christopher Lambert Mike Tyson and several other world champions in the sporting world including Ronaldinho Gaúcho acting debut. He also reprises his role as Joseph King.
In 2016 Steven executive produced and played Detective Fripp in Point Defiance (2018) and immediately followed it up with Waterlily Jaguar (2018) directed by Melora Walters and shares the executive producing card with Paul Thomas Anderson the film stars James Le Gros Academy Award Winner Mira Sorvino and Dominic Monaghan Stacey Oristano and Christopher Backus Steven also plays Bill's (Dominic's character) business partner, Peter in the film.
Other recent films include Doe (2018) where Steven portrays a crooked retired prison warden hiding from his past. He plays a suspicious ranger in The Clearing (2020) starring with Liam McIntyre and Sydelle Noel and goes on to sidekick with Ewen Bremner in the upcoming release Freedom's Path (2022). It seems a bad guy pattern is starting to be drawn as he is slated to team up alongside Orlando Jones in Dark Forces.- Additional Crew
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Charlotte Hawkins was born on 16 May 1975 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Burnt (2015), Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017) and National Treasure: Kiri (2018). She has been married to Mark Herbert since 6 September 2008. They have one child.- Actor
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Barry Quin was born in 1949 in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for 2:22 (2017), Superman Returns (2006) and Home and Away (1988). He was previously married to Peta Toppano.- Holly grew up in Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire. Holly's first on screen role was playing Maddy in the BBC television drama about the famous school Summerhill (2008). She went on to star as Megan in two series of the children's comedy drama Paradise Cafe (2009), which was filmed in New Zealand and Rarotonga. Since then she has filmed guest roles in episodes of the BBC series Doctors (2000) and Casualty (1986).
- Zoe Hilson was born in 1968 in Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for As Time Goes By (1992), The Revengers' Comedies (1998) and Scarlet and Black (1993).
- Born in Bognor in 1950, Sammie Winmill studied acting at the Arts Educational School and worked for several seasons at the Opera House. Her first screen role was an uncredited part in the film Up Pompeii (1971). She was first noticed in the role of nurse Sandra Crumpton in a few episodes of the series "Doctor in Charge" (1972) for London Weekend television. She landed a top billing role as Carol in the sci-fi series "The Tomorrow People" (1973) for the series first season. After leaving the series, she then had many roles in various other television productions including the new Avengers series and "The Duchess of Duke Street" in 1976. She then focused her acting career then entirely on the stage where she appeared in a variety of London theatre productions. By the late 1990s, she had formed an acting school with her teaching, writing plays, and performing in one-women stage productions.
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Maisie Peters was born on 28 May 2000 in Steyning, West Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Birds of Prey (2020), Trying (2020) and How to Date Billy Walsh (2024).- Having taken time out for her family and further professional development, Debra Beaumont is back on the scene. Previous Television credits include: 'Brookside', 'Men Behaving Badly', 'Soldier, Soldier', 'House of Eliott', Inspector Alleyn Mysteries', 'Boon', 'Gentlemen and Players', 'The Bill', 'Holby City' and 'Birds of a Feather'. Her first stage role after leaving college was Fredrika in 'A Little Night Music' at the Chichester Festival Theatre, which went on to transfer to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End. Other West End credits include: Myrtle Mae Simmons in 'Harvey', Leila Arden in 'Rope' and Lydia Languish in 'The Rivals'. London fringe productions include Desdemona in 'Othello' (Bridewell), the duchess in 'The Duchess of Malfi' (Tristan Bates) and Lucia Joyce in 'Simples of the Moon' (Lyric, Hammersmith). For the Regents Park Open Air Theatre she played Miranda in 'The Tempest' and Luciana in 'A Comedy of Errors'. This was followed with 'All in the Timing', a four hander with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
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Hugh Dickson was born on 19 August 1927 in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Canterbury Tales (1969) and Poldark (1975). He was married to Dorothy White. He died on 26 November 2018 in London, England, UK.- Nigel Humphreys was born in September 1950 in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Scum (1979), Warship (1973) and Head Over Heels (1993).
- Katie Blake was born in 1977 in West Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Helen of Troy (2003), I Was a Rat (2001) and Sweet Medicine (2003).
- Paul Grunert was born in 1957 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Death Defying Acts (2007) and MI-5 (2002).
- Peter Baldwin was born on 29 July 1933 in Chidham, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Freelance (1970) and Poldark (1975). He was married to Sarah Long. He died on 21 October 2015 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
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Born just before the century turned, Charles Bennett made his writing debut as a child in 1911, fought in France during World War I while still a teen and resumed his acting career after the war's end. In 1926 he dropped acting to concentrate on being a playwright, later turning one of his most famous plays, "Blackmail," into a screenplay for production under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock. The affiliation with "Hitch" continued into the early 1940s, by which time both Bennett and the director were working in Hollywood. He wrote for producers ranging from Cecil B. DeMille to Irwin Allen to the penny-pinching folks at AIP. "If I couldn't write, I wouldn't want to live," commented Bennett, who had projects (including a remake of "Blackmail") going right up to the time of his death.- Producer
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Kimberly Quigley was born on 25 August 1979 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England, UK. She is a producer and director, known for The Red Booth (2013), War Child and Day Six.- Music Artist
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A British singer/songwriter with a keen sense for both atmosphere and melody, Tom Odell's piano-led odes to heartache and pain are emotional, raw, and often hushed affairs that evoke names like Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley. His acclaimed 2012 debut EP earned him a BRITs Critics' Choice award, and his first full-length outing, 2013's Long Way Down, reached number one on the U.K. albums chart. Uneasy with the idea of fame, Odell recorded his next two releases in New York and Los Angeles before returning home to London for 2018's intimate Jubilee Road and 2021's dark, electro-pop-leaning monsters.
Born in the West Sussex town of Chichester, England, Odell spent his formative years studying at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music. In 2012, after landing a record deal with Columbia Records, the then-21-year-old released his debut EP, Songs from Another Love, made his television debut on Later... with Jools Holland, and was nominated for and won the Critics' Choice category of that year's BRIT Awards. He released his first full-length studio effort, Long Way Down, in 2013. The platinum-selling album was a huge success, having gone straight in at number one on the U.K. charts, and Odell spent the following couple of years touring the material relentlessly, supporting huge names such as Elton John, Billy Joel, and the Rolling Stones along the way.
Odell soon sought refuge from the limelight, and found it in the shape of a small apartment in New York's East Village. It was there that he found the time to begin working on his follow-up, 2016's Wrong Crowd. After a European tour in 2014, and after scooping up an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year, Odell again relocated, this time to Los Angeles. The album began to take shape with the help of producer Jim Abbiss, best known for his work with Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, and Adele, among others. Ever the avid film buff, Odell issued a collection of films to accompany Wrong Crowd that followed the narrative of the album. Scripted by Odell and with the help of director George Belfield, the films explored themes of isolation and innocence, having drawn inspiration from greats such as Wenders, Malick, and Fellini during his time spent under the radar in New York.
In April 2018, Odell issued an eponymous single from his third studio LP, the inward-looking Jubilee Road, which arrived later that October. The single "Numb" appeared in early 2021 ahead of the release of the full-length monsters. Darker and moodier than its predecessor, the electro-pop-tinged set drew inspiration from artists like XXXTentacion, Drake, and Travis Scott. Early the following year, Odell stripped his sound back down to its piano and vocal core on the poignant single "Best Day of My Life."
His fourth studio album, monsters, was released in 2021.- Writer
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field Place, Warnham, near Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK. Percy Bysshe was a writer, known for The Cloud (1919), Le Brasier Shelley (2018) and The Burying Party (2018). Percy Bysshe was married to Mary Shelley and Harriet Westbrook. Percy Bysshe died on 8 July 1822 in at sea, off Italy.- Producer
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Phil Lott was born on 30 May 1974 in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Locked Up Abroad (2007), Undercover Boss (2010) and Kangaroo Valley (2022).- Saaj is a multi-hyphenate performer with international experience. He has performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, appeared in the Marvel's 'Eternals' and onstage in the West End in 'Best of Enemies'.
Saaj also regularly appears as a presenter on BBC Radio 2's 'Pause for Thought'
Project highlights include; leading 'Only One Six' and 'A Game of Two Halves' which released globally in cinemas in 2024. - Adam is an English born character actor who's worked extensively in Film and TV in both comedy and dramas. Adam gained his first job in Victoria Woods 'Dinnerladies' whilst in his last term at Arts Ed Drama School in London and since then has worked on movies such as 'Bridget Jones Baby' (Dir Sharon McGuire), 'King of Thieves' (dir James Marsh) and has worked with Joe Cornish on both of his movies; 'Attack The Block' and 'The Kid Who Would be King'.
Adam's first lead film role was also his first feature film 'EMR' which also starred an up and coming Tom Hardy. 'EMR' won several awards worldwide including the 'Best UK Feature Award' at London's prestigious 'Raindance Fesitval', seeing off tough competition such as Shane Meadows 'Dead Mans Shoes'.
TV credits include many of the UK's favourite TV shows including playing Olivia Coleman's 'fling' in Broadchurch, Eastenders, Humans and Guerrilla. - Maxime McKendry was born on 25 June 1922 in West Dean, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Blood for Dracula (1974). She was married to Alain Count de la Falaise and John McKendry. She died on 30 April 2009 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
- Constance Wake was born in 1928 in Horsham, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Behind the Headlines (1956), Suspense (1962) and Studio 4 (1962). She was married to Warren Mitchell. She died on 17 September 2017 in Highgate, London, England, UK.
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Anohni is a singer, songwriter and visual artist originally releasing chamber pop music under the name Antony and the Johnsons. In 2005, her album 'I Am a Bird Now' won the Mercury Music Prize and considerable success. In 2016, under the name Anohni, she released Hopelessness, an electronic dance album exploring themes of environmental destruction and American imperialism. In 2016 she was nominated for an Academy Award for contributing the song "Manta Ray" to the environmental documentary Racing Extinction.- Writer
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Kate Mosse was born on 20 October 1961 in West Sussex, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for The Winter Ghosts, Labyrinth (2012) and Theatre Live! (2009).- Tara is the oldest of 4 and spent most of her childhood traveling around the world with her family. At the age of 18, Tara was spotted by Jackie Chan while she was working at Channel V in Hong Kong. The martial arts actor signed Tara to his agency and became the first female westerner he ever took on. After an intense few months of studying martial arts with the actor, she had her first role in his movie "The Medallion". "Meet me in Miami" Tara's first Lead role in a feature film is due to be released in 2008.
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Tom Dunham is an English film director & screenwriter based in London. Over the past few years, Tom has worked with US and UK producers writing TV pilots and narrative feature screenplays, including book to film adaptations. His original material is often born from his passion for the crime drama genre.
Tom is also a development producer at Ephor Pictures, an independent London-based film and TV production company.- Gillian Eddison was born in 1934 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Play for Today (1970), The Herries Chronicle (1960) and Z Cars (1962). She was previously married to David Ryall.
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Originally a journalist, Adam Stephen Kelly was first published at age 16 while attending Steyning Grammar School in West Sussex, England, contributing articles to a local newspaper. A handful of years later, he was an established writer for the likes of Ain't It Cool News, Rolling Stone and GQ. As he continued to write about cinema, Kelly changed direction, deciding to focus on filmmaking. He was involved with a number of independent feature films in the years before his award-winning directorial debut, Done In, wowed international critics ahead of its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. Following such acclaim, which led to the film being featured on ITV's Good Morning Britain, it was released in June 2015 to further acclaim on Crypt TV, the genre movie network founded by renowned filmmaker and actor Eli Roth.
Following the success of Done In, Kelly returned to the director's chair in April 2015 on the crime thriller Kill Kane, starring Vinnie Jones. That same month, Done In concluded its festival run by winning the inaugural Brian Hibbard Award at Cardiff Independent Film Festival.
Today, Kelly is the Senior Vice President of Shogun Films, a leading independent production company based in London. His latest film, gangland drama Nemesis, stars Billy Murray, Nick Moran, Julian Glover and Frank Harper.- Actress
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Cynthia Payne was born on 24 December 1932 in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Lily Savage Show (1997), Personal Services (1987) and Cynthia Payne's House of Cyn (1995). She died on 15 November 2015 in Camberwell, London, England, UK.- Mike Murray was born in 1931 in Westbourne, West Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Ipcress File (1965), As You Like It (1963) and Ebony, Ivory & Jade (1976). He was married to Cherry Morris. He died on 21 February 2013 in Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK.
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Laurence Tolhurst was born on 3 February 1959 in Crawley, West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Ant-Man (2015), Gringo (2018) and The Wedding Singer (1998). He is married to Cindy Levinson. He was previously married to Lydia.- Writer
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Only son of John Edward Dell and Gertrude Flowers of Shoreham-On-Sea. Trained as an articled clerk in his father's law firm Dell & Loader before signing up for the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. He was eventually invalided out of the service after a aeroplane crash in training.
Trained as a solicitor, and practiced in Shoreham until getting his break with "Payment Deferred" in 1932. He had married Brenda Maude Cullum in 1924, having one son Richard Flowers Dell (1926-2008). Jeffrey and Brenda divorced in 1933. Jeffrey re-married to Eileen Weatherstone in 1934, divorcing again soon after. He married for a third time to Jill Craigie in 1938, and introduced her to the film world. Jill Craigie later divorced Jeffrey and married Michael Foot. Jeffrey married for a fourth time to Barbara Poxon (who had been his secretary) in 1948, and they had two daughters in 1953 and 1957.
In addition to his film and stage work, Jeffrey wrote three novels: "Nobody Ordered Wolves", "News From Heaven" and "The Hoffman Factor".
Lived at Chase Farm, Haslemere, and later at Bridge Cottage, Liphook until his death in 1985. Buried at Haslemere.- Composer
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Barrie Guard was born on 8 September 1940 in Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK. Barrie is a composer, known for A Room with a View (1985), Monster in the Closet (1986) and Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995).- Actor
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Ed Petrie was born on 22 August 1978 in West Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for All Over the Place (2011), Green Wing (2004) and All Over the Place: UK - Part 1 (2019).