Film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting Life', ‘If', ‘The Whales of August', awarded the 1955 Oscar for Best Documentary Short.
Born India, died France.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Lindsay Anderson
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Lindsay Anderson
Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), fi...
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Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier
Born Dorking, Surrey, as Laurence Kerr Olivier. With his wife Vivien Leigh, he managed the St James's Theatre from 1950 to its closure in 1957. Founding Director of the National Theatre, 1963 - 197...
3 memorials
Richard Todd
Actor. Born in Dublin. During WW2 he served in the parachute regiment, and was one of the first to land in Normandy during Operation Overlord. He took up acting after the war, and one of his early ...
1 memorial
Victor McLaglen
Boxer and film actor. Born as Victor Andrew D'Biere McLaglen in, according to him, Tunbridge Wells. Brought up in South Africa. Joined the British army aged 14 and so was forced to leave. Went t...
1 memorial
Joan Sims
Actor. Born Irene Joan Marion Sims in Laindon. Essex. She first appeared on stage in the early 1950s, and in 1958 was cast in 'Carry on Nurse'. She became a stalwart of this film series, initially ...
1 memorial
Tommy Trinder
Actor and comedian. Born Thomas Edward Trinder at 54 Wellfield Road, Streatham. His career started in music halls and graduated to West End theatres, films and television. He was the first compere ...
1 memorial
Previously viewed
St Augustine's Church - Victoria Park - ghost building
E9, Victoria Park, near Brookfield Road entrance
When we photographed the stone we did not notice the rectangular clearing around it but this Google Satellite image displays the space we...
1 subject commemorated
Alfred Turner - lost blue plaque
SW6, Munster Road, 44
Our colleague Alan Patient took this photograph in 2010. By 2016 it had been replaced by the "Turners and Paget" plaque.
2 subjects commemorated
Margery Allingham
Writer. Born Margery Louise Allingham in Ealing. Initially she studied drama and speech-training to cure a stammer. She turned to writing, and in 1929 published her first successful novel, 'The Cri...
1 memorial
Sam King
SE24, Warmington Road, 2
Sam King M.B.E., born 1926, Mayor of Southwark, 1983-84, wartime R.A.F. serviceman, passenger on the Empire Windrush, West Indian communi...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Kirsty MacColl
Singer-songwriter. Born Mayday Hospital, Thornton Heath, daughter of Ewan. Killed in a swimming / motorboat incident in Mexico. Whether the person actually responsible for her death was properly pr...
1 memorial