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BBC2 Playhouse, the Glossary

BBC2 Playhouse is a UK anthology television series of one-hour episodes produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).^[1]

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1970s British anthology television series
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Abigail Cruttenden

Abigail Lucy Cruttenden (born 23 March 1968) is an English actress.

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Aidan Higgins

Aidan Higgins (3 March 1927 – 27 December 2015) was an Irish writer.

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Aimée Delamain

Aimée Delamain (21 April 1906 – 18 June 1999) was an English actress, known for spending most of her career playing elderly ladies.

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Al Matthews (actor)

Alexander Basil Matthews (November 21, 1942 – September 22, 2018), commonly known as Al Matthews, was an American actor, singer, and radio personality.

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Alan Ford (actor)

Alan Ford (born 23 February 1938) is an English actor.

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Alan Lake

Alan Lake (24 November 1940 – 10 October 1984) was an English actor, best known as the third and final husband of screen star Diana Dors.

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Alan MacNaughtan

Alan MacNaughtan (4 March 1920 – 29 August 2002) was a Scottish actor, born in Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Alan Rowe (actor)

Alan Rowe (14 December 1926 – 21 October 2000) was an English actor born in New Zealand.

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Albert Welling

Albert Welling (born 29 February 1952) is a British actor.

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Alec Sabin

Alec Sabin (born 28 August 1947) is a Yorkshire born British actor.

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Alice Krige

Alice Maud Krige is a South African actress and producer.

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Allan Surtees

Allan Joseph Surtees (31 December 1924 – 1 November 2000) was an English actor who appeared in many television productions and films over a 30-year period.

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Alun Armstrong

Alan Armstrong (born 1946), known professionally as Alun Armstrong, is an English character actor.

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Alun Lewis (actor)

Alun Lewis Bennett (born 1949) is a British former actor and musician.

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André Previn

André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor.

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Ann Davies (actress)

Ann Cuerton Briers (25 November 1934 – 26 April 2022), better known by her stage name Ann Davies, was an English actress.

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Anna Calder-Marshall

Anna Calder-Marshall (born 11 January 1947) is an English stage, film and television actress.

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Anna Cropper

Anna Cropper (13 May 1938 – 22 January 2007) was an English stage and television actress.

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Anna Massey

Anna Raymond Massey (11 August 19373 July 2011) was an English actress.

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Annette Crosbie

Annette Crosbie (born 12 February 1934) is a Scottish actress.

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Annie Hulley (born 23 October 1955 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is an English television and stage actress who has appeared in the British soap-operas Emmerdale as Karen Moore and Coronation Street.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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Anthony Bate

Anthony Bate (31 August 1927 – 19 June 2012) was an English actor.

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Anthony Head

Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor and singer.

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Anton Rodgers

Anthony Rodgers (10 January 1933 – 1 December 2007) was an English actor and occasional director.

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Arthur Blake (English actor)

Arthur Blake (7 November 1929, Washington, Tyne and Wear – 27 November 2001, Kensington, London, England) was an English actor who appeared in British television and film from the 1950s through the 1990s.

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Arthur Bostrom

Arthur Bostrom FRGS (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, best known for his role as Officer Crabtree in the long-running BBC TV sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!.

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Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.

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Aubrey Morris

Aubrey Morris (born Aubrey Steinberg; 1 June 1926 – 15 July 2015) was a British actor known for his appearances in the films A Clockwork Orange and The Wicker Man.

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Aubrey Woods

Aubrey Harold Woods (9 April 1928 – 7 May 2013) was an English actor.

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Barbara Ferris

Barbara Gillian Ferris (born 27 July 1942, London) is an English actress and former fashion model.

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Barbara Kellerman

Barbara Rose Kellerman (originally spelt Kellermann; born 30 December 1949) is an English actress, known for her film and television roles.

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Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Barbara Leigh-Hunt (born 14 December 1935, Bath, Somerset) is an English actress.

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Barry Foster (actor)

John Barry Foster (21 August 1927 – 11 February 2002) was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years.

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Barry Jackson (actor)

Barry Jackson (29 March 1938 – 5 December 2013) was an English stage, film and television actor.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor.

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Benjamin Whitrow

Benjamin John Whitrow (17 February 1937 – 28 September 2017) was a British actor.

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Bill Nighy

William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor.

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Billie Whitelaw

Billie Honor Whitelaw (6 June 1932 – 21 December 2014) was an English actress.

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Brad Davis (actor)

Robert Creel Davis (November 6, 1949 – September 8, 1991), known professionally as Brad Davis, was an American actor.

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Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn (Bottle; born 20 February 1946) is an English actress.

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Brenda Fricker

Brenda Fricker (born 17 February 1945) is an Irish actress, whose career has spanned six decades on stage and screen.

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Brendan Price

Brendan Price is a British theatre, film and television actor.

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Brewster Mason

Brewster Mason (30 August 192214 August 1987) was an English stage actor who also appeared in films and on television.

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Brian Cox (actor)

Brian Denis Cox (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor.

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Brigit Forsyth

Brigit Dorothea Mills (28 July 1940 – 1 December 2023), better known by her stage name Brigit Forsyth, was an English-born Scottish actress, best known for her roles as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedy Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama Boon.

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Brigitte Kahn

Brigitte Kahn is a German-born British actress who has appeared on several television shows in the UK.

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Bruce Boa

Andrew Bruce Boa (10 July 1930 – 17 April 2004) was a Canadian actor, who found success playing the token American in British films and television, usually playing military types.

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Bryan Marshall

Bryan Marshall (19 May 1938 – 25 June 2019) was a British actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name, in both his native country and Australia.

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Carmen Munroe

Carmen Esme Munroe, (born 12 November 1932) is a British actress who was born in Berbice, British Guiana (now Guyana), and has been a resident of the UK since the early 1950s.

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Carol Leader

Carol Leader (born 10 November 1950) is a Jungian psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a former English theatrical and television actor.

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Caught on a Train

Caught on a Train is a British television play written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Peter Duffell, based on an overnight train journey across Europe, and following the route of a journey that Poliakoff had himself made from London to Vienna.

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Charles Dance

Walter Charles Dance (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor.

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Charles Kay

Alfred Charles Kay (born 31 August 1930), better known by his stage name Charles Kay, is an English actor.

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Cherie Lunghi

Cherie Mary Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television, theatre actress and voice over artist.

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Chris Jagger

Christopher Jagger (born 19 December 1947) is an English musician and actor.

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Christine Hargreaves

Christine Hargreaves (22 March 1939 – 12 August 1984) was an English actress who was known for portraying the role of Christine Hardman on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1960 to 1963.

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Christine Kavanagh

Christine Mary Kavanagh (born 24 March 1957) is an English actress.

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Christopher Casson

Christopher T. Casson (20 March 1912 – 9 July 1996) was an English-born actor who became a citizen of Ireland in 1946.

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Christopher Fairbank

Christopher Fairbank is an English film, stage and television actor, best known in the UK for playing Moxey in the comedy drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

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Christopher Guard

Christopher Guard (born 5 December 1953) is an English actor, musician and artist.

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Christopher Ryan

Christopher Papazoglou (born 25 January 1950), known professionally as Christopher Ryan, is a British actor best known for his roles as Mike The Cool Person in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, Dave Hedgehog in the BBC comedy series Bottom, Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses, and as Edina Monsoon's ex-husband Marshall Turtle in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.

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Christopher Strauli

Christopher Strauli (born 13 April 1946) is an English film, television and theatre actor.

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Clinton Greyn

Clinton Greyn (29 September 1933 – 19 March 2019) was a Welsh-born actor noted for his appearances in British television series of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Clive Exton

Clive Exton (11 April 1930 – 16 August 2007) was a British television and film screenwriter who wrote scripts for the series Poirot, Jeeves and Wooster and Rosemary & Thyme.

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Clive Merrison

Clive Merrison (born 15 September 1945) is a British actor of film, television, stage and radio.

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Clive Swift

Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter.

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Colin Jeavons

Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929) is a British retired television actor and TV presenter.

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Colin Welland

Colin Welland (born Colin Edward Williams; 4 July 1934 – 2 November 2015) was an English actor and screenwriter.

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Connie Booth

Connie Booth (born December 2, 1940) is an American actress and writer.

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Coral Atkins

Coral Rosemary Atkins (13 September 1936 – 2 December 2016) was an English actress, who opened and ran a home for disadvantaged children.

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Cyril Cross

Cyril Cross was an English actor, who is best known for playing Monsieur Chargon in A Patriotic Offering of the first episode of the fourth series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs.

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Cyril Luckham

Cyril Alexander Garland Luckham (25 July 1907 – 8 February 1989) was an English film, television and theatre actor.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor.

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Daphne Oxenford

Daphne Margaret du Grivel Oxenford (31 October 1919 – 21 December 2012) was an English actress, known for her early stage roles, and later her radio and television work.

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David Bradley (English actor)

David John Bradley (born 17 April 1942) is an English actor.

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David Collings

David Collings (4 June 1940 – 23 March 2020) was an English actor.

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David Daker

Colin David Daker (born 29 September 1935) is an English actor.

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David de Keyser

David de Keyser (22 August 1927 – 20 February 2021) was an English actor and narrator.

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David Neal (actor)

David Neal (13 February 1932 – 27 June 2000) was a British television actor, active from the 1960s into the 1990s.

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David Pryce-Jones

David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (born 15 February 1936) is a British conservative author and commentator.

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David Quilter

David Quilter (born 11 June 1942) is an English actor who has made numerous appearances in British television plays and series since the mid-1960s.

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David Sibley (actor)

David Sibley (born 16 July 1948) is an English actor.

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David Threlfall

David John Threlfall (born 12 October 1953) is an English stage, film and television actor and director.

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David Troughton

David Troughton (born 9 June 1950) is an English actor.

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David Waller

David Waller (27 November 1920 – 23 January 1997) was an English actor best known for his role as Inspector Jowett in the British television series Cribb.

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Davyd Harries

Davyd Harries (born 31 January 1937) is a Welsh actor.

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Deborah Kerr

Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 192116 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a British actress.

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Denholm Elliott

Denholm Mitchell Elliott (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor.

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Denis Lill

Denis Lill (born 22 April 1942) is a New Zealand-born British actor.

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Derek Mahon

Norman Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet.

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Derek Martin

Derek Martin (born Derek William Rapp; 11 April 1933) is a retired English actor.

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Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (12 September 1914GRO Register of Births: DEC 1914 11a 490 NEWPORT M. – Desmond W. Llewelyn, mmn.

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Diane Fletcher

Diane Fletcher (born 17 April 1944) is an English actress.

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Dicken Ashworth

Dicken Ashworth (born 18 July 1946) is an English actor.

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Doña Croll

Doña Croll (born 29 August 1953) is a Jamaican-born British actress.

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Dominic Guard

Dominic Guard (born 18 June 1956) is an English child psychotherapist and author, formerly an actor.

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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.

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Doreen Mantle

Doreen June Mantle (22 June 1926 – 9 August 2023) was a South African-born British actress who played Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000).

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Dorothy Tutin

Dame Dorothy Tutin, (8 April 19306 August 2001) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

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Doug Fisher (actor)

Douglas Marjoribanks Fisher (London, England, 20 September 1941 – 9 July 2000) was an English actor best known for playing Larry Simmonds in Man About the House (1973–1976), Sammy in the films The Stud (1978) and The Bitch (1979) and Jim Medhurst in London's Burning (1988–1993).

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Doug Sheldon

Doug Sheldon (born Bernard Bobrow, 22 June 1936) is an English former pop singer, actor, and novelist.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Eamon Boland

Eamon Denis Boland (born 15 July 1947) is an English actor.

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Edward Peel

Edward Peel is an English television and stage actor.

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Eileen Helsby

Eileen Helsby (born 30 June 1937) is a British actress with several television credits.

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Eleanor Bron

Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author.

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Elizabeth Bell (actress)

Elizabeth Bell (20 March 1941 – 21 October 2012) was an English stage and television actress.

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Elizabeth Estensen

Elizabeth Estensen (born 10 August 1949) is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Diane Sugden on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1999 to 2021, with a guest stint in 2022.

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Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Jean Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an English character actress.

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Elsie Randolph

Elsie Randolph (9 December 1904 – 15 October 1982) was an English actress, singer and dancer.

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Eric Allan

Eric Allan (born 8 March 1940) is a British actor.

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Eric Bentley

Eric Russell Bentley (September 14, 1916 – August 5, 2020) was a British-born American theater critic, playwright, singer, editor, and translator.

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Eric Mason

Eric Mason (died 7 June 2010) was a British actor.

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Eric Porter

Eric Richard Porter (8 April 192815 May 1995) was an English actor of stage, film and television.

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Eric Richard

Eric Richard (born Eric Smith, 27 June 1940) is an English actor and presenter.

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Ernst Jacobi

Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening, professionally called Ernst Jacobi (11 July 1933 – 23 June 2022), was a German actor.

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Fiona Walker

Fiona Walker (born 24 May 1944) is an English actress, known for numerous theatre and television roles between the 1960s and 1990s.

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Frank Mills (British actor)

Albert Frank Mills (11 August 192711 February 2021) was an English actor.

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Frederick Jaeger

Manfred Frederick Jaeger (9 May 1928 – 18 June 2004) was a German-born British film, television, theatre and radio character actor.

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Frederick Treves (actor)

Frederick William Treves BEM (29 March 1925 – 30 January 2012) was an English character actor with an extensive repertoire, specialising in avuncular, military and titled types.

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Fulton Mackay

William Fulton Beith Mackay (12 August 1922 – 6 June 1987) was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s television sitcom Porridge.

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Garrick Hagon

Garrick Hagon (born September 27, 1939) is a British-Canadian actor in film, stage, television and radio, known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope.

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Gary Raymond

Gary Barrymore Raymond (born 20 April 1935) is an English film, television and theatre actor.

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Gary Shail

Gary Shail (born 10 November 1959) is an English actor, director, producer and musician.

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Gary Watson

Garrowby Watson (born 13 June 1930), known professionally as Gary Watson, is a British retired actor.

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Gawn Grainger

Gawn Grainger (born 12 October 1937) is a Scottish actor, playwright and screenwriter.

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George Pravda

George Pravda (born Jiří Pravda; 19 June 19161 May 1985) was a Czechoslovak theatre, film and television actor.

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Georgia Slowe

Georgia Slowe (born 3 June 1966) is an English actress.

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Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter.

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Geraldine James

Geraldine James OBE (born 6 July 1950) is an English actress.

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Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown; 9 May 1932 – 30 January 2015) was an English actress, who had a long career in film, theatre and television.

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Gerard Murphy (actor)

Eamon Gerard Murphy (14 October 1948 – 26 August 2013) was a Northern Irish film, television and theatre actor.

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Gertan Klauber

George Gertan Klauber (5 March 1932 – 1 August 2008) was a Czech-born English bit part character actor.

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Gillian Blake

Gillian Blake (born 10 May 1949) is a retired British actress who became well known in the early 1970s as Dora in Follyfoot.

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Graham Simpson (businessman)

Graham Simpson (born 27 July 1946) is an English businessman and the former chairman of English football club Watford.

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Gwyneth Strong

Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an English actress.

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Hana Maria Pravda

Hana Maria Pravda (Becková; after first marriage, Munk; after second marriage, Pravda; 29 January 1916 − 22 May 2008) was a Czech actress.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.

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Harry Landis

Harry Landis (born Hyman Jacob Londinsky, 25 November 1926 – 11 September 2022) was a British actor and theatre director.

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Harry Towb

Harry Towb (27 July 1925 – 24 July 2009) was an actor from Northern Ireland.

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Helen Fraser (actress)

Helen Fraser (born Helen Margaret Stronach; born 15 June 1942) is a retired English actress, who has appeared in many television series since the early 1960s.

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Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Mirren (born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov, 26 July 1945) is a British actor.

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Henry Stamper

Henry Stamper (2 March 1937 – 18 January 2009) was a Scottish actor known for his mastery of almost all British regional dialects.

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Hugh Burden

Hugh Archibald Nairn BurdenThe Daily Telegraph, 25 July 1962 (3 April 1913 – 16 May 1985) was an English actor and playwright.

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Hugh Griffith

Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh actor.

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Hugh Morton (actor)

Hugh Morton (28 June 1903 – 11 July 1984) was an English actor, best known for his work on BBC Radio for which he made more than 3,000 broadcasts, beginning in the 1920s.

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Hywel Bennett

Hywel Thomas Bennett (8 April 1944 – 24 July 2017) was a Welsh film and television actor.

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Ian Holm

Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert (12 September 1931 – 19 June 2020) was an English actor.

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Ian Marter

Ian Don Marter (28 October 194428 October 1986) was an English actor and writer, known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who from December 1974 to September 1975, with a non-regular, one-serial return in November and December 1975.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Ian Richardson

Ian William Richardson (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a British actor from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Imelda Staunton

Dame Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton (born 9 January 1956) is an English actress and singer.

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Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 193723 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer, best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.

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Ivor Roberts (actor)

Ivor Roberts (19 July 1925 – 5 September 1999) was a British actor and a television continuity announcer who often appeared in comedic roles.

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J. G. Devlin

James Gerard Devlin (8 October 1907 – 17 October 1991) was a Northern Irish actor who made his stage debut in 1931, and had long association with the Ulster Group Theatre.

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Jack McKenzie (actor)

Jack McKenzie (born 9 March 1942) is a Scottish actor.

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Jack Shepherd (actor)

Jack Shepherd (born 29 October 1940) is an English actor, playwright and theatre director.

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Jacqueline Tong

Jacqueline Tong (born 21 May 1951) is an English actress.

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James Grout

James David Grout (22 October 1927 – 24 June 2012) was an English actor of radio and television.

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James Marcus (English actor)

James Marcus (born Brian T. James, 23 June 1942) is a British actor.

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James Villiers

James Michael Hyde Villiers (29 September 1933 – 18 January 1998) was an English character actor.

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Jan Francis

Janet Stephanie Francis (born 5 August 1947) is an English actress.

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Jane Wymark

Jane Wymark (born 31 October 1952) is an English actress.

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Janine Duvitski

Janine Duvitski (born Christine Janine Drzewicki; 28 June 1952) is a British actress, known for her roles in the BBC television sitcom series Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave and Benidorm.

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Jeffry Wickham

Jeffry Wickham (5 August 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English stage, film and television actor.

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Jennie Stoller

Jennifer Stoller (26 April 1946 – 18 November 2018) was a British actress.

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Jennifer Hilary

Jennifer Mary Hilary (14 December 1942 – 6 August 2008) was a British actress of stage, film and television.

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Jennifer Lonsdale

Jennifer Lonsdale (born 17 July 1953 in Gosport, Hampshire) is a retired British television actress and public official.

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Jenny Agutter

Jennifer Ann Agutter (born 20 December 1952) is an English actress.

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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist.

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Jeremy Kemp

Edmund Jeremy James Walker (3 February 1935 – 19 July 2019), known professionally as Jeremy Kemp, was an English actor.

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Jeremy Sinden

Jeremy Mahony Sinden (14 June 1950 – 29 May 1996) was an English actor who specialised in playing eccentric military men and overgrown schoolboys.

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Jerome Willis

Jerome Barry Willis (23 October 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a British stage and screen actor, with a strong reputation for Shakespearean roles in the theatre.

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Jim Broadbent

James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor.

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Jimmy Winston

James Edward Winston Langwith (20 April 1945 – 26 September 2020), known professionally as Jimmy Winston, was an English musician and actor.

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Joe Gladwin

Joseph Gladwin (22 January 1906 – 11 March 1987) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Fred Jackson in Coronation Street, Stan Hardman in Nearest and Dearest, and Wally Batty in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine (1975–1987).

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John Alderton

John Alderton (born 27 November 1940) is an English actor.

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John Bennett (actor)

John David Bennett (8 May 1928 – 11 April 2005) was an English actor.

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John Bird (actor)

John Michael Bird (22 November 1936 – 24 December 2022) was an English actor, director, writer and satirist.

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John Bluthal

John Bluthal (born Isaac Bluthal; 12 August 1929 – 15 November 2018) was a Polish-born Australian actor and comedian, noted for his six-decade career internationally in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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John Bryans

John Bryans (died 2 March 1989) was a British actor, who appeared frequently on television.

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John Carson (actor)

John Derek Carson-Parker (28 February 1927 – 5 November 2016), known as John Carson, was an English actor known for his appearances in film and television.

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John Dicks (actor)

John Dicks (born 23 July 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor.

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John Fortune

John Courtney Fortune (born John Courtney Wood; 30 June 1939 – 31 December 2013) was an English actor, writer and satirist, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the television series Bremner, Bird and Fortune.

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John Fothergill (innkeeper)

John Rowland Fothergill (1876–1957) was an English innkeeper and entrepreneur, described as a "pioneer amateur innkeeper" in Who's Who.

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John Franklyn-Robbins

John Franklyn-Robbins (14 December 1924 – 21 March 2009) was an English character and voice actor.

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John Junkin

John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was an English actor and scriptwriter who had a long career in radio, television and film, specialising in comedy.

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John Kani

Bonisile John Kani, OIS, (born 30 August 1942) is a South African actor, author, director and playwright.

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John Lee (Australian actor)

John Lee (31 March 1928 – 21 December 2000) was an Australian actor with an extensive career in film and television in Australia as well as the United Kingdom and the United States.

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John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow (born, 1945) is an American actor.

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John Nettles

John Vivian Drummond Nettles, OBE (born 11 October 1943) is an English actor and author.

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John Normington

John Normington (28 January 1937 – 26 July 2007) was an English actor primarily known for his work on television.

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John Ringham

John Henry Ringham (10 February 1928 – 20 October 2008) was a British actor who appeared on both television and stage.

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John Rolfe (actor)

John Richard Rolfe (1935 – 12 August 2020) was a British actor.

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John Savident

John Frederick Joseph Savident (21 January 1938 – 21 February 2024) was a British actor, known for his numerous television roles, including his portrayal of Fred Elliott in the soap opera Coronation Street from 1994 to 2006.

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John Wood (English actor)

John Wood (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English actor, known for his performances in Shakespeare and his lasting association with Tom Stoppard.

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John Woodvine

John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.

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Jonathan Pryce

Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor who is known for his performances on stage and in film and television.

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Joss Ackland

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film, radio and television roles.

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Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress.

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Judy Cornwell

Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940) is an English actress and writer best known for her role as Daisy in the successful British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995).

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Judy Parfitt

Judy Catherine Claire Parfitt (born 7 November 1935) is an English theatre, film, and television actress.

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Julian Glover

Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935) is an English classical actor with many stage, television, and film roles.

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Julie Covington

Julie Covington (born 11 September 1946) is an English singer and actress, best known for recording the original version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina", which she sang on the 1976 concept album Evita.

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Julie Walters

Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress.

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Keith Barron

Keith Barron (8 August 1934 – 15 November 2017) was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017.

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Keith Jayne

Keith Jayne (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor, known for playing the title role in the 1981 television adaptation Stig of the Dump.

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Ken Campbell

Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English actor, writer and director known for his work in experimental theatre.

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Kenneth Haigh

Kenneth William Michael Haigh (25 March 1931 – 4 February 2018) was an English actor.

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Kenneth MacDonald (English actor)

Kenneth MacDonald (20 November 1950 – 6 August 2001) was an English actor who was best known for the parts of Gunner Nobby Clark in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Mike Fisher in Only Fools and Horses.

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Kim Thomson

Kim Ellen Thomson (born 30 October 1959) is a British actress who has appeared on stage, television and film since the early 1980s in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Laurence Harrington

Laurence Harrington (born 30 September 1938) is a British actor who has played DS Probert in Z-Cars, Lunar Guard in Doctor Who, George Latimer in Softly, Softly, the Lawyer in The Sweeney, Jackson in Space: 1999, Gary in Agony, Jeff Sadler in Boon, Ricky Price and Cyril Harrington-Morse in two separate episodes on Lovejoy, Vic Lawson in Love Hurts and James Palfrey in Dalziel and Pascoe.

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Lee Montague

Lee Montague (born Leonard Goldberg; 16 October 1927) is an English actor noted for his roles in film and television, usually playing tough guys.

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Lesley Manville

Lesley Ann Manville (born 12 March 1956) is an English actress known for her frequent collaborations with Mike Leigh, appearing in the films Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010), and Mr. Turner (2014).

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Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is a British actress, singer and former model.

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Leslie Grantham

Leslie Michael Grantham (30 April 1947 – 15 June 2018) was an English actor, best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

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Liam Neeson

William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.

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Lilli Palmer

Lilli Palmer (born Lilli Marie Peiser; 24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a German actress and writer.

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Linda Robson

Linda Patricia Mary Robson Dunford (Robson; born 13 March 1958) is an English actress and television presenter.

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Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish actress.

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Lloyd McGuire

Lloyd McGuire (born 2 September 1947) is an English actor in film and television.

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Lynda La Plante

Lynda Joy La Plante, CBE (née Titchmarsh; born 15 March 1943) is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.

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Lynn Farleigh

Marilyn J. "Lynn" Farleigh (born 3 May 1942) is an English actress of stage and screen.

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Maggie Steed

Maggie Steed (born Margaret Baker; 1 December 1946) is an English actress and comedian.

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Malcolm Bradbury

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic.

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Margaret Tyzack

Margaret Maud Tyzack (9 September 193125 June 2011) was an English actress.

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Margaret Whiting (actress)

Margaret Elizabeth Whiting (8 February 1933 – 13 December 2023) was a British actress.

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Margery Mason

Margery Mason (27 September 1913 – 26 January 2014) was an English actress and director.

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Mark Wingett

Mark Christopher Wingett (born 1 January 1961) is an English actor.

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Martin Fisk

Martin Fisk (born 28 April 1946 in London) is an English actor.

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Mary Wimbush

Mary Wimbush (19 March 1924 – 31 October 2005) was an English actress whose career spanned sixty years.

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Matthew Guinness

Matthew Guinness (born 6 June 1940) is an English actor.

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Maurice Roëves

John Maurice Roëves (19 March 1937 – 14 July 2020) was a British actor.

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Michael Angelis

Nicolas Michael Angelis (29 April 1944 – 30 May 2020) was an English actor.

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Michael Byrne (actor)

Michael Byrne (born 7 November 1943) is a British actor known for his roles in the National Theatre, Hollywood films, and television shows.

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Michael Elphick

Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English film and television actor.

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Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon (19 October 1940 – 27 September 2023) was an Irish-English actor.

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Michael Goldie

Michael Goldie (26 February 1932, Edmonton, London – 17 June 2013, France) was a British character actor active between 1963 and 1996.

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Michael Hordern

Sir Michael Murray Hordern, CBE (3 October 19112 May 1995)Morley, Sheridan.

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Michael Kitchen

Michael Roy Kitchen (born 31 October, 1948) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which comprised eight series between 2002 and 2015.

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Michael Pennington

Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington (born 7 June 1943) is an English actor, director and writer.

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Michael Sheard

Michael Sheard (born Michael Lawson Perkins; 18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish character actor who featured in many films and television programmes, and was known for playing villains.

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Michael Thomas (actor)

Michael Thomas (11 April 1952 – 4 March 2019) was a British theatre actor, who worked on the English stage and screen for the past forty years.

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Michael Troughton

Michael Troughton (born 2 March 1955) is an English actor, teacher and writer.

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Mike Bradwell (theatre director)

Mike Bradwell is a British theatre director.

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Mike Grady (actor)

Michael Grady (born 6 February 1946) is an English character actor.

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Mike Packer

Mike Packer (born Lusaka, Zambia) is an English dramatist, actor and poet.

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Milo Sperber

Milo Sperber (20 March 1911 – 22 December 1992) was a British actor, director and writer, who was born in Poland.

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Miriam Karlin

Miriam Karlin (23 June 19253 June 2011) was an English actress whose career lasted for more than 60 years.

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Nat Jackley

Nat Jackley (born Nathaniel Tristram Jackley Hirsch; 16 July 1909 – 17 September 1988) was an English comic actor who starred in revue, variety, film and pantomime from the 1920s to the mid-1980s.

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Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas C. Frost (born 1955), known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film and television actor.

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Nicholas Le Prevost

Nicholas Le Prevost (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor.

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Nick Berry

Nicholas Berry (born 16 April 1963) is a retired English actor and pop singer.

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Nicky Henson

Nicholas Victor Leslie Henson (12 May 1945 – 15 December 2019) was a British actor.

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Nigel Bennett

Nigel Bennett (born 19 November 1949) is an English-born Canadian actor, director and writer.

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Nigel Havers

Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor and presenter.

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Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor.

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Noel Dyson

Elsie Noël Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English character actress.

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Noel Johnson

Noel Frank Johnson (28 December 1916 – 1 October 1999) was an English actor.

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Norman Rodway

Norman John Frank Rodway (7 February 1929 – 13 March 2001) was an Anglo-Irish actor.

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Norman Rossington

Norman Rossington (24 December 1928 – 21 May 1999) was an English actor best remembered for his roles in The Army Game, the ''Carry On'' films and the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night.

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Norman Wisdom

Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, musician and singer best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring a hapless character called Norman Pitkin.

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Nula Conwell

Nula Conwell (born 24 May 1959) is an English character actress.

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Oliver Smith (actor)

Oliver Smith (born 29 May 1952) is an English actor.

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Oscar Homolka

Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain, and America.

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Pat Heywood

Patricia Heywood (1 August 1931 – 26 June 2024) was a Scottish character actress who appeared in stage productions, films and television.

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Patience Collier

Patience Collier (born Irene Marjorie Ritscher; 19 August 1910 – 13 July 1987) was a British actress.

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Patricia Garwood

Patricia Garwood (28 January 1941 – 24 February 2019) was an English television, film and stage actress who first appeared on film aged 9 in The Lavender Hill Mob and is best known as playing Beryl Crabtree in five series of the BBC situation comedy No Place Like Home between 1983 and 1987.

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Patrick Newell

Patrick David Newell (27 March 1932 – 22 July 1988) was a British actor.

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Patrick Troughton

Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor best known for his roles in television and film.

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Paul Copley

Paul Mackriell Copley (born 25 November 1944) is an English actor.

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Paul Freeman (actor)

Paul Freeman (born 18 January 1943) is an English actor who has appeared in theatre, television and film.

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Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor.

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Paul Seed

Paul Seed (born 18 September 1947) is a British television director and former actor.

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Paula Milne

Paula Milne is a British screenwriter.

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Pauline Jameson

Pauline Jameson (5 June 1920 – 8 April 2007) was an English actress whose work encompassed stage and screen.

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Peggy Ashcroft

Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years.

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Penelope Nice

Penelope Nice is a British comedy actress.

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Peter Arne

Peter Arne (born Peter Randolph Michael Albrecht; 29 September 19181 August 1983) was a British character actor.

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Peter Barkworth

Peter Wynn Barkworth (14 January 1929 – 21 October 2006) was an English actor.

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Peter Benson (actor)

Peter Henry Benson (3 April 1943 – 6 September 2018) was a British actor, best known for his role as Bernie Scripps in the popular ITV television series Heartbeat, a police drama set in the fictional Yorkshire village of Aidensfield during the 1960s.

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Peter Birrel

Peter Birrel (Peter Cohen; 19 July 1935 – 23 June 2004) was an English actor who played numerous parts on British television for nearly forty years.

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Peter Blake (actor)

Peter Blake (born John Beattie Dempsey; 8 December 1948 – 21 July 2018) was a Scottish actor.

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Peter Cellier

Peter Cellier (born 12 July 1928) is an English actor who has appeared on film, stage and television.

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Peter Craze

Peter David Craze (27 August 1946 – 30 December 2020) was a British actor, brother of fellow actor Michael Craze.

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Peter Dean (actor)

Peter Dean (born 2 May 1939) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Pete Beale in EastEnders, Jeff Bateman in Coronation Street and Sergeant Jack Wilding in Woodentop.

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Peter Eyre

Peter Gervaise Joseph Eyre (born 11 March 1942) is an American-born English actor.

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Peter Howell (actor)

Peter Norman Bulmer Howell (25 October 1919 – 20 April 2015) was an English actor.

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Peter Martin (actor)

Peter Martin (c. December 1941 – 19 April 2023) was an English actor.

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Peter Sallis

Peter John Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television.

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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov; 16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, director and writer.

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Peter Vaughan

Peter Ewart Ohm (4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016), known professionally as Peter Vaughan, was an English character actor known for many supporting roles in British film and television productions.

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Peter Welch (actor)

Peter William Welch (30 March 1922 – 20 November 1984) was a British actor who appeared in television programmes including Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Spy Trap, Softly, Softly, Doctor Who and Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan.

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Peter-Hugo Daly

Peter-Hugo Daly (born 1956 in Islington, London) is an actor and musician.

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Phil Davis (actor)

Philip Davis (born 30 July 1953) is an English actor, writer, director and narrator.

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Philip Jackson (actor)

Philip Jackson (born 18 June 1948) is an English actor.

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Philip Madoc

Philip Madoc (born Philip Arvon Jones; 5 July 1934 – 5 March 2012) was a Welsh actor.

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Philip Martin (screenwriter)

Philip Martin (3 July 1938 – 13 December 2020) was an English television screenwriter.

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Philip Saville

Philip Saville (28 October 1927 – 22 December 2016) was a British director, screenwriter and former actor whose career lasted half a century.

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Philip Sayer

Philip Sayer (26 October 1946 – 19 September 1989) was a British actor.

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Prunella Scales

Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales (née Illingworth; born 22 June 1932) is a retired English actress.

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Radio Times

Radio Times (currently styled as RadioTimes) is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items.

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Ralph Arliss

Ralph Arliss (born 11 September 1947) is a British actor.

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Ralph Bates

Ralph Bates (12 February 1940 – 27 March 1991) was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and the 1975 series Poldark.

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Raymond Westwell

Raymond Westwell (6 January 1919 – 23 November 1982) was a British actor and director who worked for many years in Australia.

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Rhys Adrian

Rhys Adrian Griffiths (28 February 1928 – 8 February 1990) was a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Richard Davies (Welsh actor)

Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Leech

Richard Leeper McClelland (24 November 1922 – 24 March 2004), known professionally as Richard Leech, was an Irish actor. Richard Leeper McClelland was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Isabella Frances (Leeper) and Herbert Saunderson McClelland, a lawyer. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Dublin, and qualified as a doctor in 1945.

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Richard Pasco

Richard Edward Pasco, (18 July 1926 – 12 November 2014) was a British stage, screen and TV actor.

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Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)

Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster.

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Robert Eddison

Robert Leadam Eddison, OBE (10 June 1908 – 14 December 1991) was an English actor, who despite his lengthy career as a classical stage actor, is probably most widely remembered in the role of the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Robert Gillespie

Robert James Gillespie (born 9 November 1933 in Lille, France) is a British actor, director and writer.

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Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television.

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Robert James (actor)

Robert James (28 March 1924 – 31 July 2004) was a Scottish actor, who was best known for his television work.

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Robert Urquhart (actor)

Robert Urquhart (16 October 1922 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who worked on the stage, for British television, and in film.

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Roger Brierley

David Roger Brierley (2 June 1935 – 23 September 2005) was an English actor.

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Roger Hammond (actor)

John Roger Hammond (21 March 1936 – 8 November 2012) was an English character actor who appeared in many films and television series.

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Roger Rees

Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work.

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Ronald Lacey

Ronald William Lacey (28 September 1935 – 15 May 1991) was an English actor.

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Rosalie Crutchley

Rosalie Sylvia Crutchley (4 January 1920 – 28 July 1997) was a British actress.

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Rosamund Greenwood

Rosamund Mary Von Pokorny (12 June 1907 – 15 July 1997) better known as Rosamund Greenwood, was a British actress who was active on screen from 1935 until 1990.

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Rosemary Leach

Rosemary Anne Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress.

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Rosemary Martin

Rosemary Martin (17 December 1936 – 14 August 1998) was an English actress, born in Birmingham.

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Roy Boyd

Roy James Boyd (18 August 1938 – 27 April 2024) was an English actor best known for his roles on television between 1963 and 2010.

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Roy Evans (actor)

Roy Evans (born 10 January 1930) is an actor who has appeared in British television from the 1960s to 2004, appearing in a wide range of productions including Doctor Who (The Daleks' Master Plan as Trantis, The Green Death as Bert and The Monster of Peladon as a miner), Blake's 7 ("Redemption" as a Slave), Porterhouse Blue (as Arthur), Only Fools and Horses (The Jolly Boys' Outing as Harry the coach driver), as well as peasant roles in The Black Adder.

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Rula Lenska

Rula Lenska (born Roza Maria Leopoldyna Lubienski 30 September 1947) is a British actress.

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Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915The date of Brooke's death and burial under the Julian calendar that applied in Greece at the time was 10 April. The Julian calendar was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier".

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Russell Harty

Frederic Russell Harty (5 September 1934 – 8 June 1988) was an English television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows.

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Sally Kellerman

Sally Clare Kellerman (June 2, 1937 – February 24, 2022) was an American actress whose acting career spanned 60 years.

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Sam Kelly

Roger Michael Kelly (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014), known by the stage name Sam Kelly, was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre.

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Sandor Elès

József Sándor Éles (15 June 1936 – 10 September 2002), sometimes credited simply as Sándor Éles, was a Hungarian actor.

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Sara Kestelman

Sara Kestelman (born 12 May 1944) is an English actress.

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Screen Two

Screen Two is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing Screen 2 between April 1977 and March 1978). BBC2 Playhouse and Screen Two are 1980s British anthology television series, 1980s British drama television series, BBC anthology television shows and British drama television series.

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Sebastian Shaw (actor)

Sebastian Lewis Shaw (29 May 1905 – 23 December 1994) was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet.

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Second City Firsts

Second City Firsts is a British drama anthology series of single plays, broadcast by the BBC, all lasting thirty minutes. BBC2 Playhouse and Second City Firsts are 1970s British anthology television series, 1970s British drama television series and BBC anthology television shows.

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Shane Rimmer

Shane Lance Deacon (May 28, 1929 – March 29, 2019), known professionally as Shane Rimmer, was a Canadian actor and screenwriter who spent the majority of his career in the United Kingdom.

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Sharon Duce

Sharon D. Duce (born 17 January 1948) is an English actress.

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Sheila Ruskin

Sheila Ruskin (born 28 March 1946) is an English actress.

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Siân Phillips

Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress.

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Simon Ward

Simon Anthony Fox Ward (16 October 194120 July 2012) was a British stage and film actor.

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Siobhán McKenna

Siobhán McKenna (24 May 1922 – 16 November 1986) was an Irish stage and screen actress.

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Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead (originally produced and published as: Sizwe Bansi is Dead) is a play by Athol Fugard, written collaboratively with two South African actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, both of whom appeared in the original production.

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Stanley Price (writer)

Stanley Price (12 August 1931 – 28 February 2019) was a British novelist and playwright who wrote for the theatre, film and television from the 1960s.

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Stephanie Cole

Patricia Stephanie Cole (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, radio and film actress, known for high-profile roles in shows such as Tenko (1981–1985), Open All Hours (1982–1985), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990–1994), Keeping Mum (1997–1998), Doc Martin (2004–2009), Cabin Pressure (2008–2014), Still Open All Hours (2013–2019), Man Down (2014–2017) and as Sylvia Goodwin in ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2011–2013).

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Stephen Moore (actor)

Stephen Vincent Moore (11 December 1937 – 4 October 2019) was an English actor, known for his work on British television since the mid-1970s.

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Stephen Murray (actor)

Stephen Umfreville Hay Murray (6 September 1912 – 31 March 1983) was an English cinema, radio, theatre and television actor.

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Stephen Yardley

Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English actor.

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Stratford Johns

Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for playing the role as senior CID officer Charlie Barlow, a character he originated in the early years of the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars, and then continued to play in several spin-off series in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Susan Engel

Susan Engel (born 25 March 1935) is a British actress.

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Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 – 8 November 1979) was an English actor who after having started his career on stage, was best remembered for numerous appearances in films and television from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Sylvester McCoy

Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith (born 20 August 1943), known professionally as Sylvester McCoy, is a Scottish actor.

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Sylvia Coleridge

Sylvia Coleridge (10 December 1909 – 31 May 1986) was a British stage, film, radio and television actress.

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Television play

A television play is a television programming genre which is a drama performance broadcast from a multi-camera television studio, usually live in the early days of television but later recorded to tape.

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Terence Alexander

Terence Joseph Alexander (11 March 1923 – 28 May 2009) was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac, which ran for nine series on BBC1 between 1981 and 1991.

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Terence Bayler

Terence Bayler (24 January 1930 – 2 August 2016) was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor.

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Terrence Hardiman

Terrence Edward Hardiman (6 April 1937 – 18 April 2023) was an English actor.

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Terry Molloy

Terry Molloy (born 4 January 1947) is an English actor.

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Terry Walsh (actor)

Terry Walsh (5 May 1939 – 21 April 2002) was a British actor stuntman, stunt arranger and fight arranger who contributed much to British television and film, especially during the 1970s.

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The Mind Beyond

The Mind Beyond is a BBC2 supernatural anthology television series – part of BBC 2's Playhouse series – which ran from September to November 1976. BBC2 Playhouse and The Mind Beyond are 1970s British anthology television series, 1970s British drama television series and BBC anthology television shows.

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Theatre 625

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. BBC2 Playhouse and Theatre 625 are BBC anthology television shows.

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre was a British anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. BBC2 Playhouse and Thirty-Minute Theatre are 1970s British anthology television series, 1970s British drama television series and BBC anthology television shows.

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Tim Brooke-Taylor

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (17 July 194012 April 2020) was an English actor and comedian.

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Tim Pigott-Smith

Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith, (13 May 1946 – 7 April 2017) was an English film and television actor and author.

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Tim Woodward

Timothy Oliver Woodward (24 April 1953 – 9 November 2023) was an English actor.

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Timothy Spall

Timothy Leonard Spall (born 27 February 1957) is an English actor and presenter.

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Tom Kelly (actor)

Tom Kelly is a British actor, noted for his roles in television.

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Tom Kempinski

Thomas Michael John Kempinski (24 March 1938 – 2 August 2023) was an English playwright and actor best known for his 1980 play Duet for One, which was a major success in London and New York City, and much revived since.

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Tony Caunter

Anthony Patrick Caunter (born 22 September 1937) is a retired British actor best known for his role as Jack Shepherd in the Yorkshire TV sitcom Queenie's Castle and also his portrayal of the kindly car dealer Roy Evans in EastEnders from 1994 to 2003.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC2_Playhouse

Also known as BBC Playhouse.

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