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Born in England on Christmas Day, 1905, Lewis Allen first came on the show-biz scene when he was appointed executive in charge of West End and Broadway stage productions for famed impresario Gilbert Miller. Allen also co-directed some of the productions (including the celebrated "Victoria Regina" with Helen Hayes and Vincent Price) before he was lured to Hollywood by Paramount studio head Buddy G. DeSylva. The Uninvited (1944), based on Dorothy Macardle's best-selling novel, made for an auspicious directing debut; its success prompted an immediate follow-up, the suspense thriller The Unseen (1945) (with a script by Raymond Chandler). Otherwise, his filmography leans heavily toward "tough guy" movies of the Alan Ladd-George Raft-Edward G. Robinson school. Allen also directed much TV (Perry Mason (1957), The Big Valley (1965), Mission: Impossible (1966), Little House on the Prairie (1974), many more).- Mick Worthington was born on 26 July 1964 in Oakengates, Shropshire, England, UK.
- Sir Gordon Richards was Britain's most famous jockey, who rode over 4,000 winners and was Champion Jockey a record 26 times. After he retired through injury, he became a successful trainer. He is still the only flat jockey to be knighted. In 1942, he won four of the five classic races (the 2,000 Guineas, the 1,000 Guineas, the St Leger and the Oaks), but the Derby eluded him until his final attempt, in the week of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, shortly after he had been knighted.