A. J. P. Taylor
Historian and broadcaster. Born Alan John Percivale Taylor in Birkdale, Lancashire. A lecturer in modern history at Manchester University and in international history at Oxford. His major works inc...
Historian and broadcaster. Born Alan John Percivale Taylor in Birkdale, Lancashire. A lecturer in modern history at Manchester University and in international history at Oxford. His major works inc...
Actor. She started acting at the age of four, and trained at the New York City Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Graduated in 2012 from LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art). Aft...
Keith Taylor writer, designer, director of photography, award winning producer and director of many television programmes, including ‘Statues and Monuments’. He served as a Magistrate for 20 years ...
Former film and television studios. Originally Henry Chinnery of Weir House allowed filmmakers to use his greenhouse. Dedicated studios were built in the 1910s and were expanded and renamed. By th...
John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. See Londonist's excellent post How Television Was Invented In London. We love it when our friends d...
Comic actor, born as Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens in Finchley, Middlesex. He performed with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during World War II and went on to work on radio and ...
Actor. Â Born Paddington. Â Her parents are the actors Eric Thompson and Scottish actor Phyllida Law. Â Married first Kenneth Branagh and then Greg Wise, both actors.
Actor. Born in Dublin. During WW2Â he served in the parachute regiment, and was one of the first to land in Normandy during Operation Overlord. He took up acting after the war, and one of his early ...
Actor and comedian. Born Thomas Edward Trinder at 54 Wellfield Road, Streatham. His career started in music halls and graduated to West End theatres, films and television. He was the first compere ...
Actor.  Born Mill Hill.  Played the second Doctor Who 1966-9.  Died in a hotel at  Columbus, Georgia, USA where he was attending a Science Fiction convention.
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