Sir Derek Jacobi
Actor. Born Derek George Jacobi in Leytonstone. He was invited by Sir Laurence Olivier to be a founder member of the Royal National Theatre. Probably best known for playing the eponymous lead in th...
1 memorial
Hattie Jacques
Actrees, born Josephine Edwina Jacques at 125 High Street, Sandgate, Kent. She featured in some of the most successful British radio and television programmes and films. On radio she was in ITMA, E...
1 memorial
Sid James
Comedy actor. Â Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Â Worked as a diamond sorter and th...
4 memorials
Jimmy Jewel
Comedy actor. Born James Arthur Thomas Marsh in Sheffield to a couple of music-hall entertainers.  When Jimmy's successful double act became old fashioned he restarted his career in television in t...
2 memorials
Celia Johnson
Actor. Born Celia Elizabeth Johnson at 46 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey. Best known for her performance with Trevor Howard in the 1945 film 'Brief Encounter'; which, although it has been parodied...
1 memorial
Brian Johnston
"Johnners", For nearly fifty years he was the voice of cricket on BBC television and radio. Born Hertfordshire. Died London.
1 memorial
Jan Kaplan
Author and filmmaker. Born in the former Czechoslovakia. Co-author of 'Prague in the Shadow of the Swastika', 'Prague; The Turbulent Century' and 'Prague 1900 - 2000'. He made the television series...
1 memorial
Boris Karloff
Actor. Born as William Henry Pratt at the house with the plaque. His acting career began in the theatre in Canada, where he adopted his stage name. Arriving in Hollywood he appeared in dozens of si...
Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio, Canada, USA
1 memorial
Sir Ben Kingsley
Actor. Born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snaiton, Yorkshire to an English mother and an Indian Kenyan father. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and also performed with the Royal National Theatre....
1 memorial
Roy Kinnear
Character actor.  Born Lancashire.  Played Mr. Salt in the 1971 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'.  Died following a fall from a horse while filming in Spain.
1 memorial
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