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.
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Lindsay Anderson
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Lindsay Anderson
Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), fi...
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Ernie Lotinga
Comedian and film actor. Born Sunderland. Best known for a series of films in which he played a character, Josser, in the 1930s. T. S. Eliot was a big fan. Died London. British Pathe have some...
Laurence Cowen
Scriptwriter, playwright, film and theatre director, and author. Born Laurence Cohen and also wrote as Lesser Columbus. Born Hull, or Newcastle-upon-Tyne (sources differ). Died Hampstead. Married t...
Clapham Odeon
Cinema. Designed by George Coles. The use of neon lights on its exterior gave it a distinctive look at night. It closed in 1972, but permission to demolish it was refused. It reopened as 'The Liber...
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 in the Victoria Hotel, 79 Westborough, Scarborough, Yorkshire, one of the five children of Robert Laughton (1868-1924) and Eliza Laughton (1869-1953). On t...
Person, Armed Forces, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
Barbara Everest
Film actor. Born in Southfields, London. Her career spanned over fifty years. Played Elizabeth the servant in Gaslight (1944). Her day of birth is given as 19 or 9, depending on source.
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English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts,...
Georgette Heyer
Novelist. Born at 103 Woodside, Wimbledon. From 1932, she produced one romance novel and one thriller each year. In all she wrote nearly sixty volumes. Died at Guy's Hospital.
Alhambra Theatre
The image shows the old theatre, the Charing Cross Road facade and bottom, the Leicester Square facade, now the Odeon cinema.
Lord Palmerston - Carlton Gardens
SW1, Carlton Gardens, 4
{Left most double plaque - top:} LCC Lord Palmerston, 1784 - 1865, statesman, lived here. {Lower:} Tablet fixed - 1907 Premises rebuilt ...
Chelsea civilians killed in WW2
SW3, Dovehouse Green
In remembrance of 457 civilians killed in Chelsea by enemy action 1939-1945.
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