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...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Peggy Ashcroft
Actor. Born Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon.
1 memorial
Davis' Theatre
Built by Grace and Marsh and operated by Israel Davis and his family. It opened with the British premiere of Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command, and was equipped with the largest Compton organ...
1 memorial
Jean Simmons, OBE
Actor. Born Crouch Hill. Played Estelle in David Lean's 1946 Great Expectations, Ophelia in Laurence Olivier's 1948 Hamlet. Became American citizen in 1956. Died California.
1 memorial
Lord Grade
Born Louis Winogradsky (anglicised as Lew Grade) in Tokmak, near Odessa, Ukraine. In 1912 his family emigrated to London to escape antisemitism. He started his career as a dancer and arranged enter...
1 memorial
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First Test Match in England
SE11, Kennington Oval, Hobbs Gates
The "D.R. London S.E.5" is puzzling. The Oval is in the SE11 post code, not SE5. Possibly "D. R." is an organisation, based in SE5, that ...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Chaplin mosaics 1
SE1, Lambeth Walk, Chandler Hall
We've numbered the mosaics left to right. The text plaque is to the right of the curved wall, just out of sight. Chaplin certainly lived ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Peggy Ashcroft
Actor. Born Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon.
1 memorial
William Thornburgh Brown, Deputy
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial