Lord Grade
Born Louis Winogradsky (anglicised as Lew Grade) in Tokmak, near Odessa, Ukraine. In 1912 his family emigrated to London to escape antisemitism. He started his career as a dancer and arranged enter...
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Granada Ventures
A TV production and distribution company, now part of ITV. Gave permission to use, for Olivier's statue, the image of Hamlet taken from Olivier's 1948 film to which Granada have the performing rig...
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Cy Grant
Actor, musician, writer and poet. Born Cyril Ewart Lionel Grant in Beterverwagting, British Guiana (modern day Guyana). He served in the Royal Air Force during WW2, and in Britain, he qualified as ...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Music / songs, Race Issues, TV & Radio, South America
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Benny Green
Bernard 'Benny' Green, jazz musician, saxophonist, writer, author, broadcaster and raconteur. When his long-running BBC radio show was cancelled there were demonstrations outside Broadcasting Hou...
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Sir Hugh Carleton Greene
Journalist and television executive. Born in Berkhamsted, brother of novelist Graham Greene. In 1934 he became chief correspondent in Berlin for the Daily Telegraph. The Nazis deported him, but he ...
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Bonnie Greer
Playwright and novelist. Born in Chicago. She visited Britain as part of a production at the Edinburgh Festival in 1986 and has remained here ever since. She has written many plays for radio and ha...
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Sheila Hancock
Actor, often in comedy roles. Born in Blackgang, Isle of Wight, she was the younger daughter of Enrico Cameron Hancock (1893-1970) and Ivy Louise Hancock née Woodward (1898-1970).Her father was a p...
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Tony Hancock
Comedy actor. Â Otherwise known as Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. Â Born in Birmingham as Anthony John Hancock. He was a major figure in British television and...
6 memorials
Tommy Handley
Radio comedian. Â Born Liverpool. Â Best known for the BBC radio show "ITMA -Â It's that man again".
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Irene Handl
Comedy actor. Â Born 13 Leith Mansions, Paddington and grew up in St John's Wood. Â Began acting in her mid thirties and was almost never out of work, giving cameo performances in many British films ...
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