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- Anthony Ainley was a notable British actor and a member of a distinguished British acting family. His brother was Richard Ainley (1910-1967) and his father Henry Ainley (1879-1945). He worked in the theatre for many years and eventually found work in various historical film dramas in the 1970s. However, his claim to fame is his casting in the role of the Master in the long running science fiction series, Doctor Who (1963). He first appeared in the role in 1981 and would makes further appearances each year up to and including 1986. He then reprised the role one last time in 1989, for the final Doctor Who serial entitled 'Survival'. He retired from acting professionally in the late nineties and played cricket up until the time of his death in May 2004.
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The son of a naval officer who ran what were called "concert parties", Kenneth Connor made his stage debut at age two, and by 11 was performing in both a solo act and a doubles act with his brother in various revue shows. He later decided to become a serious actor rather than just a revue performer, and attended a professional music and drama school. After a six-year stint in the army, he returned to the theater as an actor, and secured quite a few roles on the stage. For all his training, though, he found his greatest success doing voice characterizations on radio comedy shows. His success there led to his being cast in the first "Carry On" film, and he went on to become one of the regulars in the long-running series. After it ended Connor did a lot of television work, and achieved another round of success as the undertaker Alphonse in the popular TV series, 'Allo 'Allo! (1982). He died of cancer in 1993.- The son of a tailor, Cyril studied at the London School of Broadcasting aged 12 years. His first professional appearance, at 12, came on Radio Lyons and Radio Luxembourg in such commercials as O.K. Sauce and Quaker Oats. After demob from the Army, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art which was followed by Guildford rep and the West End. He worked in Hollywood for two years with Radio Netherland as English announcer,scriptwriter and producer of programmes. Then came BBC Radio Drama Rep. for two years (1952 - 54). Cyril, whose forebearers were Polish, was the father of three children, Michael, Simon and Sarah.
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Charles Simon was born on 4 February 1909 in Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Topsy-Turvy (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000) and The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997). He was married to Sheila Eves and Nancy McDermid. He died on 16 May 2002 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Writer
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Barry Cryer was born on 23 March 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Stanley Baxter Show (1963), Tommy Cooper (1969) and The Russ Abbot Show (1986). He was married to Theresa Margaret 'Terry' Donovan. He died on 25 January 2022 in Northwick Park, Harrow, London, England, UK.- Roy Hines was born on 16 February 1942 in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Champion Road (1958), The Silver Sword (1957) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on 20 August 1982 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
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William Schwenck Gilbert was born in London on November 18, 1836, to William Gilbert, a retired naval surgeon, and his wife Anne. The Gilberts would add three younger girls to the brood: Jane, Maud and Florence. His parents were cold and distant, with prickly characters. Stern and unyielding, they did not show affection for their son, who absorbed their inflexibility and emotional frigidity. His parents' relationship was strained, and they separated in 1876. Gilbert cared more for his father than his mother, but his biographers are mute on his feelings towards his father's death, or indeed, about his relations with his parents at all . Gilbert remained detached from life, regarding its triumphs and defeats with a reserve, a sense of atomization likely inherited from his parents.
Young William spent his formative years touring Europe with his parents before they returned to London in 1847. He was sent to the Great Ealing School and completed his education at King's College, London. He did not go on to Oxford as he was determined to join the Army to fight in Crimea. He failed to obtain a commission, and turned his attention towards making a career as a government clerk and barrister in the years 1857-66.
His interest in the theater seems to have come to him at an early age. Circa 1861, he began making submissions of prose, verse and drawings to the comic magazine "Fun," writing "The Bab Ballads" for the wag rag. He turned to playwriting, and his first legitimate production, "Uncle Baby," debuted at London's Royal Lyceum Theatre ion the October 31, 1863. The play ran seven weeks, but he was not produced again until 1866, when his pantomime "Hush-a-Bye Baby" and his burlesque "Dulcamara" were produced in December. He continued to work in burlesques for the next three years , making a reputation for himself as a tasteful and intelligent writer. Burlesque in the 19th century was akin to vaudeville, with star turns, ballet, and spectacle. Gilbert had no control over his work as in burlesque, as the stars were the thing, a position of powerlessness he resented.
Gilbert married Lucy Agnes Turner on of August 6, 1867. Little is known of her, although most biographers speculated that her personality was soothing and conciliatory, a fitting counterpoint to Gilbert's own abrasive and confrontational personality. She likely dominated her household, and Gilbert even may have been afraid of her anger lest he trespass her in her domestic fiefdom.
Gilbert's last burlesque, "The Pretty Druidess," debuted on June 19, 1869. He had already began writing for the Gallery of Illustration, a small, sophisticated theater that produced his "No Cards" on March 29th, earlier that year. Freed from the interference of stage-managers of the more vulgar, commercial theater, Gilbert was able to develop his personal style while writing for the Gallery. The Gallery presented six Gilbert musicals in which his unique tone of voice began to emerge.
Adopting a more restrained style, he produced "fairy comedies" in blank verse for the Haymarket Theatre. The fairy comedies presented a more tasteful and popular entertainment than the farce and burlesque that dominated the theater. He became a theatrical director in this period, and began directing his own plays so as to exert artistic control over them and fully realize their potential. In 1867, he directed the Liverpool production of "La Vivandiere" and the London production of "Thespis" in 1871, a year that saw six other Gilbert productions on the boards. As a director, he aimed to introduce subtlety into the English theater. "Thespis," though not a hit, is significant in that it is his first collaboration with Arthur Sullivan. Their first hit would come with their second collaboration, four years later, with "Trial by Jury."
His output for the theater included farces, operetta librettos, adaptations of novels such as Dickens' "Great Expectations," and translations of French drama. He even dabbled in writing serious drama, though he was not notably successful in that genre. The strain of so much work led to his leaving "Fun."
Gilbert's reputation was waxing, and he was positioning himself as one of the major forces on the English stage. He collaborated with Gilbert a Beckett on the political satire "The Happy Land" in 1873. The play, which lampooned prime minister Gladstone and two of his ministers, was banned briefly. This was the beginning of Gilbert pushing the parameters of what could be presented on the English stage. While Gilbert did tend to be iconoclastic, he worked in the popular theater and needed success to continue to work. Drama was then the least respected of the literary professions, and in his career, he attempted to make it more respectable, succeeding to the degree that the next generation's leading lights, Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw, were able to tackle more sensitive subjects while being respected as major authors.
Up until Gilbert decided to publish his oeuvre, plays were published very cheaply, as pamphlets for the use of actors rather than readers. Gilbert wanted his plays published as real books, proofread and attractive so they could find a place in the home libraries of gentlemen. The first volume of Gilbert's plays was published in 1875 by the respectable house Chatto and Windus in a an attractively-bound, well-printed volume that eliminated stage jargon intended for actors. Such a well-published book was unheard of for a new, relatively controversial dramatist like Gilbert, as it typically was the province of older, for long-established dramatists to be published in respectable volumes. Gilbert eventually published three more volumes of his original plays, and his popularity was such that he even made a profit from them.
After the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Trial by Jury," Richard D'Oyly Carte became the duo's producer. The third Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, "The Sorcerer," was presented in 1877, as was his masterpiece "Engaged," a cynical and ironic work that was very funny. Critics attacked the play as debasing the human spirit. However, critics and audiences eventually would accept Gilbert's cynicism when he wrote in tandem with Sullivan due to the ameliorating affect of the latter's music. The audience also began to get used to Gilbert's cynical voice.
"The Sorcerer" was a success, but their next production, "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878) was a blockbuster hit that engendered multiple pirate productions in the United States. The next year, they had an equivalent hit with their "The Pirates of Penzance." To stymie the American pirates, D'Oyly Carte presented its own "H.M.S. Pinafore" production in New York City in 1879, then introduced Gilbert and Sullivan's as-yet-unpirated "Pirates of Penzance" to the New York audience.
Gilbert continued to write plays without the participation of Sullivan, but they were not successes. His serious drama "The Ne'er-Do-Weel" (1878) flopped after opening to awful reviews, and the rewritten version, "The Vagabond," also proved a flop. Gilbert's blank-verse tragedy "Gretchen" (1879) lasted but three weeks on the boards, as did his farce "Foggerty's Fairy" (1881). The 1881, Gilbert and Sullivan's satire on Oscar Wilde and his circle, "Patience" was a success. ("Patience" eventually was transferred to the new Savoy Theatre, which Gilbert's personal company also made its home.) Coming after the failure of "Foggerty's Fairy," Gilbert decided to focus his writing to his collaboration with Sullivan. His production slowed down, partly due to his economic success obviating a need to continually turn out new plays like clockwork, but mostly due to the new careful and systematic writing methods he adopted.
In an 1885 interview, he admitted to laboriously developing his plots, in consultation with Sullivan in multiple drafts. He would create a skeleton libretto using the fewest words possible to sketch out the actions of the piece. Songs and dialog would be slowly developed and polished. This new process was time-intensive, and produced but one operetta per year, and while it produced many masterpieces, it took the risk out of Gilbert's work. He started settling into formula, which betrayed his iconoclastic nature.
For the rest of the decade, Gilbert-and-Sullivan produced "Iolanthe" (1882), "Princess Ida" (1884), "The Mikado" (1885), "Ruddigore" (1887) and "The Yeomen of the Guard" (1888). Despite its success, the collaboration became tenuous, and after "Princess Ida," Sullivan refused to write anything more for D'Oyly Carte's theater, The Savoy, and departed for a five-week-long European. When he returned to London, both Gilbert and D'Oyly Carte tried to persuade him to continue the collaboration, but Sullivan was tired of the contrived plots and balked at Gilbert's insistence that the plot of their next work involve a magic pill. Finally, Sullivan relented when Gilbert, aware of the vogue for Japanese culture then current in Europe, developed the plot for what became "The Mikado."
After "The Gondoliers," the Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration broke up permanently. The split-up was triggered by the expenses incurred by the Savoy Theater, which were shared equally by Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oyly Carte. Gilbert objected when D'Oyly Carte bought a very expensive carpet for the theater. Sullivan tried to remain neutral in the feud between Gilbert and D'Oyly Carte, but when he came down on the side of the latter, Gilbert bolted the partnership, though he remained friends with his collaborator. Neither Gilbert or Sullivan would prove as successful as when they collaborated, and Sir Arthur Sullivan eventually would become a morphine addict due to his attempts to assuage the pain from his declining health. He died on November 22, 1900 in London. D'Oyly Carte joined him in death a few months later.
There were many reasons for the break-up of the collaboration other than the expensive carpet. By the time of the premiere of "The Gondoliers" (1889), Gilbert's creative powers were in decline. His wit, once so concise, was replaced by a verbosity, which became more pronounced with "Utopia, Limited" (1893) and "The Grand Duke" (1896). The audiences demanded that Gilbert hew to the formula that had made him a huge success, but he had grown weary of it. "The Grand Duke" is a tired riff on the old formula, so much so that it is almost a parody.
Gilbert went into semi-retirement at his home in Grim's Dyke Harrow Weald after "The Grand Duke," where he played the country squire. He continued to write and finished four more plays in his lifetime. He turned out the serious melodrama "The Fortune Hunter" (1897) but returned to his lighter style with "The Fairy's Dilemma" (1904). After being knighted in 1907, he rewrote "The Wicked World" as "Fallen Fairies" (1909), with music provided by Edward German. His last produced work was the short piece "The Hooligan" (1911), which hit the boards four months before his death. "The Hooligan" represented a departure for Gilbert into serious drama, and might have been the direction his career would have taken had he lived.
Sir William S. Gilbert died on of May 29, 1911, while teaching two young women how to swim in his lake at Grim's Dyke. One the women, out of her depth, called out for help and Gilbert tried to rescue her. Accounts are conflicting, and he died of heart failure either in the middle of the lake during the attempted rescue or shortly thereafter.
One of his epigrams could serve as his epitaph, tongue-in-cheek: "Did nothing in particular, and did it very well."- Bruce Lidington was born on 30 January 1950 in Harrow, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sword of the Valiant (1984), Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and The Devil's Crown (1978). He was married to Sheila A Johnson. He died on 5 August 1996 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
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Leslie Henson, comedian born in London in 1891. Famous for his bulging eyes, malleable face and raspy voice. He studied with 'the Cairns James School of Musical and Dramatic Art as a child, he was writing and producing theatrical pieces while still at school. Became popular in Music Hall from 1910, his first West End role in 1912 was 'Nicely, Thanks!' and became a over-night star, also in 'Tonight's the Night' which became a smash-hit in 1915 followed by starring in several hit West End musical comedies including 'Yes, Uncle! in 1917. Served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I, after the war he returned to the West End playing in 'Kissing Time in 1919 and a series of musical comedies and farces throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Leslie starred in at least 15 movies, the first of which was 'The Lifeguardsman' for the British Actors Film Company in 1916, most notable was 'Alf's Button' co-starring Alma Taylor in 1920 and 'Tons of Money' in 1924, also starred in a number of talkies, best known 'A Warm Corner' in 1930 and It's a Boy' in 1934, last seen on T.V. in the late 1950s. Co-founder of ENSA. Died in London in 1957 age 66.- Actor
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Charles Paton was born on 31 July 1874 in Hoxton, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Blackmail (1929), My Wife''s Family (1931) and A Sister to Assist 'Er (1938). He died on 10 April 1970 in Harrow, London, England, UK.- Actor
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Harry Webster was born on 19 February 1915 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Far and Away (1992), Paper Mask (1990) and Tales of the Unexpected (1979). He died on 26 December 1999 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- June Rodney was born on 26 January 1931 in Stoke Newington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Assassin for Hire (1951), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956). She died on 27 November 1993 in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, England, UK.
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Johnny Franks was born on 10 December 1926 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Rock You Sinners (1958), The Chimney Sweeps (1963) and New to You (1947). He was married to Nanette Valentine. He died on 9 July 2013 in Stanmore, Harrow, London, England, UK.- Desmond Rayner was born on 31 October 1928 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Stolen Assignment (1955), Hancock's Half Hour (1956) and Screen One (1985). He was married to Claire Rayner. He died on 20 April 2014 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Sebastian Smith from Southwell, Nottinghamshire, became a well-known star of many comedy and drama shows all over Britain in the late Victorian years before meeting pioneering film-maker Cecil Hepworth. Hepworth cast the handsome tall dark Smith in many of his films, often as a smart gentleman hero, in such titles as 'Rescued by Rover'. In his later years, Smith became quite fat and bald, allowing him to take on comedy roles in films such as 'Oh Mr. Porter' with Will Hay. He died in 1948 at the age of 78.
- Edith Sharpe was born on 14 September 1894 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Cash on Demand (1961), The Outsider (1948) and Happy Is the Bride (1958). She was married to Alexander Francis Part. She died on 6 June 1984 in Harrow-on-the-Hill, London, England, UK.
- Evelyn Hall was born on 24 December 1884 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Captain of the Guard (1930), The Divine Lady (1928) and The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930). She was married to Claude King and Harry Douglas Greet (actor, b.1883-d.1922). She died on 22 August 1968 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Claire Rayner was born on 22 January 1931 in Stepney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Bob Martin (2000), Noel's House Party (1991) and The Series from Hell (1994). She was married to Desmond Rayner. She died on 11 October 2010 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
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Tony White was born on 11 October 1923 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was a director, known for Enemy Mine (1985), Department S (1969) and The Avengers (1961). He died in May 2001 in Harrow, London, England, UK.- Peggy Novak was born on 13 May 1915 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for South Riding (1938), Women Aren't Angels (1943) and Sailing Along (1938). She was married to Robert Arthur Smith. She died on 13 August 1969 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
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Sydney Streeter was born on 10 December 1910 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK. He was a production manager and producer, known for The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947) and Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956). He died in December 1989 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Actor
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Peter Sinclair was born on 31 May 1900 in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Cross Channel (1955), The Man from Morocco (1945) and Invasion (1966). He died in 1994 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Art Director
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C. Wilfred Arnold was born on 12 February 1903 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, UK. C. Wilfred was an art director and production designer, known for The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), Continental Express (1939) and Blackmail (1929). C. Wilfred died on 9 June 1970 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Frank Pettitt was born on 16 October 1899 in Bucklow, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Cards with Uncle Tom (1959), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and Shooting Star (1949). He died on 27 March 1964 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Brian Tully was born in 1931 in Hendon, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Lady of the Camellias (1976), Lorna Doone (1976) and The Devil's Crown (1978). He died on 20 September 2014 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
- Rita Grant was born on 15 October 1916 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Music Hall Parade (1939), Facing the Music (1941) and Crimes at the Dark House (1940). She died on 23 June 2017 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
- Charles Gilliard was born on 5 February 1915 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Six Days of Justice (1972), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Moody and Pegg (1974). He died in 1993 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- John Brosnan was born on 7 October 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He was a writer, known for Proteus (1995), Carnosaur (1993) and Beyond Bedlam (1994). He died on 11 April 2005 in South Harrow, London, England, UK.
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Colin M. Brewer was born on 7 May 1932 in London, England, UK. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for Where Eagles Dare (1968), Frenzy (1972) and Oliver! (1968). He died on 14 December 2016 in Clementine Churchill Hospital, Sudbury Hill, Harrow, London, England, UK.- Sound Department
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Malcolm Stewart was born in January 1929 in Stepney, London, England, UK. He is known for The Band (1978). He died in 2018 in Harrow, London, England, UK.- Cinematographer
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S.D. Onions was born on 28 March 1906 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Curse of the Demon (1957), Secret Agent (1964) and Stranglehold (1963). He died on 22 March 1968 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Ryan Arron Luke O'Donnell was an inspiring actor, so he began to attend The Sharon Harris Agency Wembley, Middlesex, at age 14. He gained the speaking character part of Gregory in Grange Hill where he acted in 1998 Episode 21 and was further written in again as Gregory in a further story line. He also was one of the evacuee children in Goodnight Mr Tom with John Thaw. He was also in the film Plain Jane an historical drama (extra) and played extra parts in Randal and Hopkirk Deceased. Sadly Ryan was diagnosed with Bone Cancer at the age of 16 and, as much as he fought his trauma for 5 years, the nasty disease took his life 5 days before his 22nd birthday. He left behind a younger brother Jed Joseph O'Donnell, younger sister Carly Lisa-Marie O'Donnell and three half sisters Chloe Becky and Neave, all younger siblings.
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Ernest Walter was born on 29 November 1919 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He was an editor, known for Superman (1978), The Haunting (1963) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). He died on 14 December 1999 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Jack Yorke was born on 16 July 1900 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Electrocord Films (1929). He died on 31 January 1976 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin was born on 28 September 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), A Bit o' Heaven (1917) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932). She was married to George Christopher Riggs and Samuel Bradley Wiggin (lawyer). She died on 24 August 1923 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
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Norman G. Arnold was born on 19 September 1892 in Leigh, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an art director and production designer, known for After the Verdict (1929), There Goes the Bride (1932) and Sally in Our Alley (1931). He died on 7 December 1963 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Actress
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Kathleen Vaughan was born on 4 January 1904 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress and producer, known for The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921), Don Juan (1922) and The Last Hour (1930). She died in 1956 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Golda Broderick was born on 24 April 1919 in Swansea, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Jane Eyre (1996) and Under the Spotlight (2006). She died on 25 January 2006 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
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George Gibbings was born on 17 July 1920 in Islington, London, England, UK. George is known for Katy (1962), Chronicle (1966) and Lord Reith Looks Back (1967). George was married to Rose Self. George died on 25 July 2010 in Harrow, London, England, UK.- Alan Conway was an English impersonator and former travel agent, best known for appearing in public as film director Stanley Kubrick in the 1990's. When knowledge of the scam reached Kubrick himself, he was apparently fascinated by the idea of having an alter ego. Alan Conway kept up the wining and dining till he was unmasked in a Vanity Fair article and went on to admit his deception on TV, in a series called "The Lying Game".
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John Gallant was born in 1930 in Paddington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Mitch (1984) and The Benny Hill Show (1969). He died on 3 August 2009 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.- Ena Moon was born on 3 September 1910 in Saltash, Cornwall, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The River House Mystery (1935), My Friend Charles (1956) and To Be a Lady (1934). She was married to Antony Oakley. She died on 11 April 1990 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- E.L. Frewen was born on 3 October 1877 in Rye, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for When Knights Were Bold (1929), My Lord Conceit (1921) and Adventures of Captain Kettle (1922). He died in May 1941 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Will Corrie was born on 14 January 1867 in Grimsby, Humberside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hard Times (1915), Dombey and Son (1919) and Tom Jones (1917). He died in 1950 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Daphne Grey was born on 6 April 1894 in Holbeck, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Duchess of Seven Dials (1920) and The Little Welsh Girl (1920). She died in 1986 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Mildred Mayne was born on 4 July 1935 in Cork, County Cork, Ireland. She was an actress, known for The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958), Take Me Over (1963) and Aladdin (1957). She died on 14 November 2016 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Ian Burgess was born on 6 July 1930 in London, England, UK. He died on 19 May 2012 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
- Kathleen Joyce was born on 7 September 1907 in Streatham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Gaunt Stranger (1931), A Spot of Bother (1938) and The Spare Room (1932). She died on 1 November 1979 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Norbert Brainin was born on 12 March 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He was married to Katinka Kottow. He died on 10 April 2005 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
- Hal Charlton was born on 9 September 1884 in New Malden, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sagacity Versus Crime (1913), Jobson's Luck (1913) and The Sanctimonious Spinsters' Society (1913). He died in 1954 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.