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centenary of cinema

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
centenary of cinema

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Cecil Hepworth - NW1

Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 Cecil Hepworth (1874 - 1953) Brit...

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Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell CBE (1901 - 1995) film critic who inspired generations of film-m...

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Lindsay Anderson

Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), fi...

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Robert W. Paul - EC1

Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996. Robert W. Paul (1869 - 1943) Bri...

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Sir Alec Guinness - WC2

Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Sir Alec Guinness in recognition...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
centenary of cinema

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Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing, star of Hammer Films and many other motion pictures, 'A true g...

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Richard Todd

Todd attended the unveiling.

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Southgate Odeon

On this site stood the Odeon cinema 1935 - 1982 a classic example of the Odeo...

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Other Subjects

Humphrey Jennings

Humphrey Jennings

Documentary film maker. Born Suffolk.  Co-founder of the Mass Observation organisation (something like current day personal blogs but with pencil and paper).  In 1936 he helped organise the Surreal...

Person, Cinema, Greece

1 memorial
Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Actor. Born Richard David Briers at the Nelson Hospital in Merton. After many stage appearances, he came to national recognition in the television sitcom 'Marriage Lines'. He is however best rememb...

Person, Cinema, Theatre, TV & Radio

1 memorial
José Collins

José Collins

Actress and singer. Born Josephine Charlotte Collins or Cooney in Whitechapel. She started her career as a child performer and went on to perform on stage and in films in Britain and America. Her g...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Theatre, USA

1 memorial
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Actor and 40th President of the USA, 1981 - 1989.  Honorary knighthood - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.  Best film line?  In the 1942 film "King's Row" on realising that his legs have...

Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, USA

2 memorials
Sam Wanamaker

Sam Wanamaker

Actor, director and visionary who recreated Shakespeare's Globe. Born Chicago. In 1952, while working in the UK, he heard that the House Un-American Activities had black-listed him so he decided to...

Person, Cinema, Theatre, USA

2 memorials

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Charles Spackman, VC

Charles Spackman, VC

Soldier. Born Charles Edward Spackman. He was a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. On the 20th Novenber 1917 at Marcoing in France, his company came under heavy gunfire. He fought his ...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Great Exhibition - Coalbrookdale Gates

Great Exhibition - Coalbrookdale Gates

SW7, South Carriage Drive

From Royal Parks: "The gates were designed by Charles Crookes. Each of the cast iron gates was cast in one piece. Their finials, supporti...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
C. E. Leighton Thomson

C. E. Leighton Thomson

Vicar of Chelsea Old Church 1950-92. From 1986 was a canon of St Paul's. Andrew Behan has researched this man: The Reverend Prebendary Clarke Edward Leighton Thomson was born on 25 April 1919 in ...

Person, Religion, Canada, China/Hong Kong, Egypt

1 memorial
Rathbone Street WW2 fire station - AFS

Rathbone Street WW2 fire station - AFS

W1, Rathbone Street

This plaque was unveiled on 18 September 2020 at a small memorial ceremony but was not erected on the building until some time in November.

War served, Civilian war dead | WW2
9 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Henry Hugh Armstead

Henry Hugh Armstead

Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...

Person, Art

68 memorials