Edna Best
IMDB Entry: Genteel, lady-like British actress who was a much respected theatrical star in the 1920’s and 30’s, both in her own country and in the United States. Born in Hove,
Nova Pilbeam
Guardian” obituary: by Eric Shorter Among the many might-have-beens in film history was the starring of Nova Pilbeam opposite Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940), Alfred Hitchco
Susan Harrison
Susan Harrison (1938–2019) is one of the most intriguing “what if” stories of 1950s Hollywood. Unlike the journeyman actors of her era who appeared in hundreds of ro
Ed Lauter
Ed Lauter is an accomplished character actor who was born in 1940 in Long Beach, Long Island. Among his films are “The Last American Hero” in 1973, “The Longest Yard”,
Robert Culp
The Guardian obituary in 2010 – Television stars tend to be more intimate with their audience than film stars, mainly because they are seen close up in people’s living
Robert Redford
Redford Robert Redford(born August 18, 1936),[ is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of theSundance Film Fe
Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi’s obituary from “The Independent” newspaper by David Shipman: As Hollywood’s enormous audience decamped to television in the 1950s the American film industry
Ava Gardner
New York times obituary in 1990. Ava Gardner, a North Carolina sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the most bewitching movie actresses in the world, died of pneumonia y
John Alderton
John Alderton is a cornerstone of British television history, an actor who mastered the difficult transition from the “cheeky lad” of the 1960s to a sophisticated, vers
Valerie Hobson
Valerie Hobson was- to her disadvantage- ineffably ladylike. The British film industry of the 30s and 40s was a man’s world and the female stars got short shrift. Those B