Writer and director of film and theatre.  Born Welwyn, brought up in Salford.  Trained at RADA then at East 15 Acting School where he met Alison Steadman, who he married in 1973.  Together they made a number of plays and films including: 'Nuts in May' and  'Abigail's Party'.  Divorced in 2001.  He has made a number of critically-aclaimed films including: 'High Hopes' and 'Secrets and Lives'.
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Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh & Alison Steadman
Unveiled by Simon Callow who has never worked on a Leigh movie though he and ...
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Joan Sims
Actor. Born Irene Joan Marion Sims in Laindon. Essex. She first appeared on stage in the early 1950s, and in 1958 was cast in 'Carry on Nurse'. She became a stalwart of this film series, initially ...
1 memorial
Biograph Theatre
Designed by architect Keith D. Young, for light entertainment and music hall, and named the Spread Eagle Assembly Rooms. In 1900, it was re-named Wandsworth Palace of Varieties, and showed animated...
1 memorial
Richard Todd
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 ...
1 memorial
George Harrison
Musician and songwriter. Born Liverpool.  One of the four Beatles.  Died Los Angeles.
3 memorials
Sir Alexander Korda
Film producer. Born Sandor Kellner in Hungary. Worked in film in Hungary, Austria and Germany and then in Hollywood 1926-30. He then moved to Britain where he became a leading figure in the film i...
1 memorial
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