Madeleine Christie was born in Edinburgh in 1904 and is the mother of actress Amanda Walker. She died in London in 1996.

Michael Petrovitch’s first television was in an episode of the British TV series “Jason King” in 1972.   That same year he had the leading role opposite Susan Hampshire in “Neither the Sea nor the Sand”.   Most of his acting career was concentrated on television and he seems to have stopped acting in 1986

Alexandra Stewart left for Paris, France, in 1958, to study art. Within a year, she made her film debut in Les Motards, and has since then enjoyed a steady career in both French- and English-language films. Besides her cinema career, she regularly appeared on television in shows such as Les Jeux de 20 heures and […]

John Heard obituary in “The Guardian” in 2017. John Heard, who has died aged 71, was an engaging, intelligent character actor in American film, television and theatre from the mid-1970s onwards. In Big (1988), his slyly funny turn as a resentful executive provided a welcome antidote to the sweetness of a comedy about a boy […]

New York Times obituary from 2010: Lamont Johnson, an Emmy-winning television director known for bringing an understated touch to delicate subjects, died on Sunday at his home in Monterey, Calif. He was 88. The cause was heart failure, his son, Chris, said. Mr. Johnson, the director of more than 150 television shows, miniseries and movies of […]

MEikipedia – Maura O’Connell (born 16 September 1958) is an Irish singer and actress. She is known for her contemporary interpretations of Irish folk songs, strongly influenced by American country music. O’Connell was born in Ennis, the main town in County Clare, in the west of Ireland. Born into a musical family, O’Connell was the third of four sisters. Her […]

Glyn Grain appeared on Coronation Street between November 1996 and March 1997 as crooked businessman Fraser Henderson. With an acting CV dating back to the late 1960s, his other credits include roles in The Jazz Age, Crown Court, Travelling Man, Rockcliffe’s Folly, Spender, Cracker, The Chief, Wycliffe, Peak Practice, Heartbeat, Burnside, Casualty, The Bill, Spooks, Ultimate Force and Holby City. On stage he appeared in a 2007 production of Not […]

James Garner obituary in “The Guardian” in 2014 Through many films and two influential television series, Maverick and The Rockford Files, James Garner, who has died aged 86, developed a persona with a subtly different appeal. It began as original and accrued familiarity over the course of four decades: a coward who was the soul […]

Fury (born Rupert Edmund Holovchik; June 6, 1928) is an American bodybuilder, actor, and model. He is best known for starring in a number of “sword-and-sandal” films in the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Long Island, New York, Fury moved to Los Angeles, California in the late 1940s and competed in numerous bodybuilding competitions, such as “Mr. Muscle Beach” in […]