Film director and playwright. Born in Holland Park. At the age of 24 he became writer in residence at the National Theatre. His many works encompass the stage, cinema and television.
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Stephen Poliakoff
Actor. Born Judith Olivia Dench in Heworth, York. Made her stage debut with the Old Vic company in 1957. Over the decades, she has performed with the Royal Shakespeare and the National Theatre comp...
Singer, actor (also athlete and civil rights activist). Born Princeton, New Jersey to a former slave, who educated himself to become a theologian and who had great expectations of his son, expectat...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
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.
Born Charles Spencer Chaplin in East Street, Walworth (possibly, see Londonist). Comic actor, composer, director and producer. Born into a music hall family. He joined a troupe of child dancers, '...
Photographer and motion picture pioneer. Born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston upon Thames. He changed his name, probably inspired by the recent discovery in Kingston of a Saxon coronation stone...
The HQ of the United States Army Air Forces moved from London to Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park and then, following the success of D-Day, to France.
'Caves' is a misnomer, as they are entirely man-made chalk and flint mines. The earliest mention of them is around 1250, and it is believed that they were last worked in the 1830s. In World War 1, ...
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