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English actor, writer and director Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things (2002), the Operative in Serenity (2005), Lola in Kinky Boots (2005), Luke in Children of Men (2006), Dr. Adrian Helmsley in 2012 (2009) and Dr. Vincent Kapoor in The Martian (2015).
Chiwetelu Umeadi Ejiofor was born on July 10, 1977 in Forest Gate, London, England, to Nigerian parents, Obiajulu (Okaford), a pharmacist, and Arinze Ejiofor, a doctor. Chiwetel attended Dulwich College in South-East London. By the age of 13, he was appearing in numerous school and National Youth Theatre productions and subsequently attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA).
Ejiofor caught the attention of Steven Spielberg who cast him in the critically acclaimed Amistad (1997) alongside Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins. He has since been seen on the big screen in numerous features including Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (2002) (for which he won Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards, the Evening Standard Film Awards, and the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards), Love Actually (2003), Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda (2004), Kinky Boots (2005), Inside Man (2006), Children of Men (2006), American Gangster (2007) and Talk to Me (2007), for which his performance won him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ejiofor has balanced his film and television commitments with a number of prestigious stage productions. In 2008, his portrayal of the title role in Michael Grandage's "Othello" at the Donmar Warehouse alongside Ewan McGregor was unanimously commended and won him best actor at the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards. He also received nominations in the South Bank Show Awards and the What's On Stage Theatregoers' Choice Awards in 2009. His other stage roles include Roger Michell's "Blue/Orange" in 2000 which received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play, and the same year Tim Supple's "Romeo and Juliet" in which Ejiofor portrayed the title role.
Following his television debut in the series episode Deadly Voyage (1996), Ejiofor has complimented his film and theatre work on the small screen in productions including Murder in Mind (2001), created by the award-winning writer Anthony Horowitz, Trust (2003), Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2003), and Canterbury Tales (2003). His television appearance in the hard hitting emotional drama Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006) alongside Toni Collette, Sophie Okonedo and Tim Roth earned him a nomination for a Golden Globe Award as well as an NAACP Image award.
Ejiofor also appeared in such notable films as Endgame (2009), Channel 4's moving drama set in South Africa for which his performance earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries; Roland Emmerich's action feature 2012 (2009), opposite John Cusack, Danny Glover and Thandiwe Newton; and Salt (2010), opposite Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber. In 2013, he starred in Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the latter film.- Actor
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Debonair, dark-haired, exceedingly handsome Roger LaVerne Smith was born in South Gate, California to Dallas and Leone Smith on December 18, 1932. At age 6, his parents enrolled him at a professional school for singing, elocution and dancing lessons. By age 12, the family moved to Nogales, Arizona, a small town on the Mexican border where he appeared in high school theater productions, was made president of the school's acting club and became a star linebacker for his high school football team.
While studying at the University of Arizona in Tucson on a football scholarship, Roger entered and won several amateur talent prizes as a singer and guitarist which led to a TV appearance with Ted Mack and his Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour (1948) program. Stationed in Hawaii at a Naval Reserve, Roger had a chance meeting with film legend James Cagney. Cagney, impressed with the boy's clean-cut good looks and appeal, encouraged Roger to give Hollywood a try. Roger did so and it didn't take long for Columbia Pictures to snap him up 1957.
While there, young Roger gained experience on such TV anthologies as "Damon Runyon Theatre," "Celebrity Playhouse," "Ford Television Theatre" and "George Sanders Mystery Theatre" and made such films as No Time to Be Young (1957), Operation Mad Ball (1957) and Crash Landing (1958). He also played the older "Patrick Dennis" role in the madcap Rosalind Russell farce Auntie Mame (1958). Roger reconnected with Cagney around this time who not only hired him to play his son, "Lon Jr.", in the Lon Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), but made him his co-star in the musical comedy-drama Never Steal Anything Small (1959).
In a successful move to the Warner Bros. studio, Roger won the role of wisecracking private detective "Jeff Spencer" in the hip TV series 77 Sunset Strip (1958). He also wrote several of the show's episodes and played the detective character in rollover episodes of "Surf Side Six" and "Hawaiian Eye." In 1962, the actor was hospitalized after falling down at home and losing consciousness. He was diagnosed two days later with a blood clot on the brain. Although he had recovered post-surgery), it forced him to leave the series temporarily and slowed down his career considerably to the point he almost quit.
Wed to budding Australian-born actress Victoria Shaw in 1956, they had three children. A Warner Bros. contractee, she appeared in an episode of his popular series. The marriage crumbled, however, and they divorced in 1965. He next met singer-actress Ann-Margret and they married in 1967. This marriage lasted 50 years, until his death.
Roger's health continued to to be a mysterious issue following his title role in the Warner Bros. short-lived TV series Mister Roberts (1965) and it forced an early retirement when he was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a degenerative muscle/nerve disorder. He would last star as the title detective in the low-budget A.C. Lyles production of Rogue's Gallery (1968). In the meantime, he appeared on talk shows with his wife and delved into producing and writing -- with The First Time (1969) and C.C. & Company (1970).
Instead, Roger remained in the background and focused instead on managing, producing and nurturing his wife's musical career. In the 1970s, he proved instrumental in her successful Vegas comeback in Vegas (he produced her stage shows). He also helped to break her "sex kitten" image with critical acclaimed films and produced several of her 1970's TV musical specials.
Roger died of complications from his long-term illness on June 4, 2017, at age 84, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.- Actress
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Shirley Anne Field was one of Britain's most highly respected actresses. She starred opposite Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis and Ned Beatty in such classic films as The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The War Lover, Alfie, My Beautiful Laundrette and Hear My Song.
As a teenager, she returned to London, her birthplace. She worked as a photographic model to pay her way through acting school, and had small parts in films. Her break came when she was cast as Tina the Beauty Queen opposite Sir Laurence Oliver in The Entertainer. She credited Tony Richardson, the director, with starting her (proper) career.
Her role as "Doreen" in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning soon followed. Only 22 years old, Shirley Anne was a major film star. Her next movie, Man in the Moon, was featured in a Royal Command Performance. This resulted in her name being above the title in all the major cinemas around Leicester Square. Apparently this is a record to this day.
A friend of Richardson told Shirley how Tony and he had gone to Leicester Square to see her name in lights. She worked with Albert Finney at the Royal Court in Lindsay Anderson production of The Lily White Boys. They later worked together again, on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, written by Alan Sillitoe.
Hollywood was paying attention. Shirley Anne was cast as the female lead in The War Lover opposite Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner. Then she starred in a Hollywood blockbuster, Kings of the Sun, with Yul Brynner and George Chakiris, filmed in Mexico.
She interspersed her film career with theatre and TV performances in Britain and around the world. She played the lead in Wait until Dark in South Africa. She played the part of "Pamela" in the U.S. television drama Santa Barbara.
In the 1980s, she met up again with Stephen Frears, with whom she had worked when they were both beginners at the Royal Court. He cast her in My Beautiful Laundrette which was a big success and a breakthrough movie Her next big film was Hear My Song, as Cathleen Doyle, was made in the 1990s.
In recent years, she toured in theatre productions such as The Cemetery Club and Five Blue Hair Ladies Sitting on a Green Park Bench. Late in her career, she appeared alongside Flora Spencer Longhurst in Beautiful Relics, a short film directed by Adrian Hedgecock.- Actor
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Billy Murray has entertained British Television audiences for over thirty years.
He is perhaps best known for his role as DS Don Beech in ITV series The Bill (1984), and has also appeared in EastEnders (1985) as the crime boss "Johnnie Allen".
His on-screen presence is very much underrated and thanks to his charismatic manner Murray has always given convincing edge and depth to the characters he portrays.
He was set to play Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in Only Fools and Horses (1981) but was replaced at the last minute by David Jason due to conflicting production schedules.
Pick any popular mainstream long lived British drama or comedy over the past two decades and you will probably find that Billy Murray has had guest-starring roles in most of them at one time or another.
He is the father of actress Jaime Murray, who plays the gorgeous Stacie in the runaway hit drama Hustle (2004) on BBC 1.- Celia Johnson was an English actress, once nominated for an Academy Award. Johnson was born in the town of Richmond, Surrey in 1908. Richmond was incorporated into Greater London in 1965, as part of an administrative reform. Celia's parents were John Robert Johnson and Ethel Griffiths. Neither of them was involved in show business.
In 1916, 8-year-old Johnson made her theatrical debut, at a performance of the play "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid". It was a charity performance, to help raise funds for then-ongoing World War I. Nobody intended for her to become a professional actress, but she liked the stage experience.
Johnson attended St Paul's Girls' School in West London, from 1919 to 1926. She graduated at the age of 18. During her school years, Johnson often had acting parts in school plays, and played music in the school's orchestra. Her music teacher at the school was Gustav Holst (1874-1934), a relatively well-known classical composer.
In the late 1920s, Johnson studied acting at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and the Comédie-Française in Paris. One of her teachers was French actor Pierre Fresnay (1897-1975). One of her classmates in London was Margaretta Scott (1912-2005)
In 1928, Johnson made her professional debut, cast in a performance of the play "Major Barbara" (1905) by George Bernard Shaw. In 1929, she first performed in London, and in 1931 she first performed in New York City. She made a name for herself as a theatrical actress throughout the 1930s, and married journalist Peter Fleming (1907-1971).
Johnson's career and personal life were derailed by World War II. A hit role as the second Mrs. Winter in a 1940 theatrical adaptation of "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier, was cut short. The theatre where Johnson was performing was damaged through London's bombing by the Luftwaffe. Johnson's widowed sister and sister-in-law moved in with her, bringing their kids with. Having to care for 7 kids (both her own children and her nephews), left Johnson with no time to spare for theatrical tours.
Seeking a way to supplement her income during the War, Johnson started appearing in theatrical films. She started with small parts, but got her first major hit with the family drama "The Happy Breed" (1944), which followed the ups-and-downs in the life of a (fictional) family over a period of several decades. For this role, Johnson received a National Board of Review Award for Best Actress.
In 1945, Johnson was starring in another hit film, the romantic drama "Brief Encounter". It featured her in the role of Laura Jesson, a housewife trapped in a dull and monotonous marriage. Laura falls in love with a new man in her life, Dr. Alec Harvey, and he falls in love with her. With circumstances keep this relationship platonic, until Harvey leaves the country to work abroad. Laura contemplates suicide, but is forced to return to her monotonous life. The role gained Johnson a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
For most of the late 1940s, Johnson was in semi-retirement. She had given birth to two daughters and felt that she needed to devote more time to her family. From the 1950s to her death, Johnson was primarily appearing in theatrical plays and television roles. Her film roles were few, but critically well-received.
In 1982, the 76-year-old Johnson was busy with another theatrical tour. During a day-off from the tour, Johnson returned to her home in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire. She invited friends over to play bridge, but suffered a stroke during the game. She died a few hours later, while still in her home. She left an estate worth £150,557. She was survived by three children.
Johnson's fame as a theatrical actress faded away following her death, as there were few filmed versions of her performances. However, her film roles became available on the home video market, and they have helped introduce Johnson to new generations of fans. - Actress
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Dame Anna Neagle, the endearingly popular British star during WWII, was born Florence Marjorie Robertson and began dancing as a professional in chorus lines at age 14. She starred with actor Jack Buchanan in the musical "Stand Up and Sing" in the West End and earned her big break when producer/director Herbert Wilcox, who had caught the show purposely to consider Buchanan for an upcoming film, was also taken (and smitten) by Anna, casting her as well in the process. Thus began one of the most exclusive and successful partnerships in the British cinema.
Under Wilcox's guidance (they married in 1943), Anna became one of the biggest and brightest celebrities of her time. Always considered an actress of limited abilities, the lovely Anna nevertheless would prove to be a sensational box-office commodity for nearly two decades. She added glamour and sophistication for war-torn London audiences and her lightweight musicals, comedies and even costumed historical dramas provided a nicely balanced escape route. The tasteful, ladylike heroines she portrayed included nurses Edith Cavell and Florence Nightingale, flyer Amy Johnson and undercover spy Odette; Nell Gwyn and Queen Victoria also fell within her grasp. She appeared in a number of frothy post-war retreads co-starring Michael Wilding that the critics turned their noses on but the audiences ate up - including They Met at Midnight (1946), Katy's Love Affair (1947), Spring in Park Lane (1948) and The Lady with a Lamp (1951). She tried to extend her fame to Hollywood and briefly appeared there in three musicals in the early 40s, but failed to make a dent. Anna's appeal faded somewhat in the late 50s and, after producing a few film efforts, retired altogether from the screen.
She returned to her theatre roots, which culminated in the long-running "Charlie Girl", a 1965 production that ran with Anna for nearly six years. She was bestowed with the honor of Dame of the British Empire in 1969 for her contributions to the theatre. Anna continued to perform after her husband's death in 1977, later developing Parkinson's disease in her final years. She died in 1986 of complications.- A police officer's son, Terrence E. Hardiman was born in Forest Gate, Essex (the area was later absorbed into London). He went to school in Essex, graduated in 1956 and then proceeded to study English at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College. He began his career on the Shakespearean stage as an amateur thespian with the Cambridge University Players and The Marlowe Society in the late 1950s. After an impressive early performance as Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus, Hardiman joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon. A member of the ensemble from 1966 to 1970, he made regular appearances in classic plays like King Lear, Hamlet and (as Starveling the tailor) in Peter Brook's notably minimalist production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Acting on screen from 1965, Hardiman excelled in the portrayal of autocratic, imperious or sinister characters. He reached the peak of his popularity as the piercingly green-eyed, mind control-using antagonist of The Demon Headmaster (1996), a children's sci-fi series which made the actor a much recognized figure in and around London. In real life, Hardiman was known as a "good-natured gentleman" of amiable temperament.
Prior to his role as the demonic principal, Hardiman had enjoyed recurring roles in Softly Softly: Task Force (1969) (Inspector Armstrong), Secret Army (1977) (Luftwaffe chief Major Hans Dietrich Reinhardt) and Granada's Crown Court (1972) (barrister Stephen Harvesty). His impressively diverse gallery of personae in guest-starring appearances on television and in occasional forays to the big screen has included abbots and cardinals, Nazi officers, doctors, judges, police superintendents, university professors, a grand wizard (The Worst Witch (1998)) and even a Prime Minister (Ramsay McDonald in Gandhi (1982)).
In addition to his work on stage and screen, Hardiman provided narration and voice-overs for numerous audio books by authors ranging from Roald Dahl and Ken Follett to Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter and Wilkie Collins. He was married for almost six decades to the actress Rowena Cooper. Hardiman died on April 18 2023 at the age of 86. - Music Artist
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Born Ben Paul Ballance Drew, Drew was born into a world where he was bought up by music and film, inspiring his art now. Growing up in the Circle Estate, Forest Gate, he meet Ed Skerin at a youth club who introduced him into rap. He has since released three studio albums, various mix-tapes, acted in several films, and recently directed his debut film, ill manors. Despite all this, Drew says more than anything, he is a story teller.- Actor
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London-born David Farrar dropped out of school at 14 and became a writer for the Morning Advertiser newspaper; but it wasn't long before he decided to change careers and become an actor. He started out on the stage in 1932, and five years later made his film debut. Appearing at first in low-budget thrillers, such as Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938),he worked his way up to more prestigious projects, such as Ealing's Went the Day Well? (1942). Farrar hit his stride in a series of films for renowned directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, most notably the classic Black Narcissus (1947).
Farrar's brooding good looks and deep, rich baritone won him legions of female fans in the US and Europe, and soon Hollywood came a-calling. He journeyed to Universal as a contract player, but the studio put him in a succession of second-tier action pictures and costume dramas as a villain. He returned to England somewhat embittered by his Hollywood experiences and determined to do better in his own country's film industry, but he couldn't regain the momentum he had before he left for Hollywood. After a small role as King Xerxes of Persia in the Greek-shot The 300 Spartans (1962), he left film acting and turned to television. When his wife died in 1976 he retired from acting altogether, and with his daughter Barbara moved to the Natal coast in South Africa, where he passed away in 1995 at age 87.- Actor
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Raised in South Gate, California, just 20 miles southeast of Hollywood, Walter Perez was always eager to express himself artistically. In his earlier years, he often directed and played the lead character in several homemade movies where he mimicked his movie idols such as Charlie Chaplin. His working-class parents were unable to afford him the resources he needed to gain access to the industry. It wasn't until he heard about Colors United, a performing arts group aimed at inner-city high school students that he really got the chance to show others his talents. For three years he honed his acting, singing and dancing skills with the group.
Since high school, Walter has juggled auditions and a full-time schedule at Cal State Fullerton. During college, he has booked several commercials and various guest star spots on prime time television shows.
Most recently, Walter's guest appearances include "CSI: Miami", "The Closer" and "Free Radio" as well as a five episode arc on "Friday Night Lights". His feature film credits include HBO's "Walkout" and winner of the John Cassavetes award "August Evening". He just completed the title role in "Emilio" and worked on "Run For Your Life" alongside Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger.- Actor
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Peter Byrne was born on 29 January 1928 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Dixon of Dock Green (1955), Frenchman's Farm (1987) and A Christmas Night with the Stars (1958). He was married to Renée Goldschmidt and Vera Dalgleish. He died on 14 May 2018 in the UK.- Malcolm McFee, an English actor born in the mid-1940s, was best known for his role as "Peter Craven" in the hit TV series Please Sir! (1968) and The Fenn Street Gang (1971). Inspired by the 1967 movie To Sir, with Love (1967), Please Sir! (1968) - which debuted in 1968 - was itself the inspiration for the American series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975). Set in a south London secondary school called "The Fenn Street School", the situation comedy assayed the travails of a naive school teacher played by John Alderton and his unruly class of students. McFee, who was in his early 20s, played one of the mob of rowdy adolescent boys and girls (all the actors being significantly older than the ages of the characters they were portraying). McFee also was in the 1971 movie of the same name, Please Sir! (1971).
He appeared in the anti-war satirical musical Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), the first movie directed by Richard Attenborough, as one of three boys from a family that go off to World War One to fight for King and Country. McFee is the last of the three brothers to be killed, near the end of the war (and movie).
After series star John Alderton left the show in 1971, the series was renamed The Fenn Street Gang (1971) and focused on the kids after they had left school. The Fenn Street Gang (1971) lasted until 1973, dying a slow death as the chemistry of the original had been lost. The shows were popular, consistently ranking in the top five during their entire runs.
McFee's career went in the doldrums after The Fenn Street Gang (1971). He made guest appearances on other TV shows and turned to the stage, where he made a career as an actor and director. As a theater director, he worked in small theaters in Greater London and the provinces. He died suddenly in November 2001 at his home in Braintree, Essex, three weeks before he was scheduled to appear as the "Dame" in the pantomime of "Beauty and the Beast" at the Chesham-based Elgiva Theatre company. He had been suffering from cancer. - Casting Director
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Christine Terry was born in Gates Mills, Ohio, USA. Christine is a casting director, known for Family Guy (1999), American Dad! (2005) and Robot Chicken (2001).- Producer
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June joined the BBC in November 2019. She is an internationally renowned broadcaster, writer and campaigner on diversity issues. She started her career as a DJ and presenter on MTV, Kiss FM and for ten years on Channel 4's T4 youth strand. She has gone on to appear as a panellist on ITV's Loose Women and now on Sky News' The Pledge.
Since 2010, she has built a reputation as a leading campaigner on a wide range of diversity and inclusion issues. She is a passionate advocate for change in the workplace and a champion for greater representation throughout the media. She has written two books on diversity issues - Diversify (2017) and The Power of Women (2018) - and co-founded the Women - Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) Alliance in 2010, an international conference supporting female excellence and empowerment. She also co-founded the Decide Act Now (DNA) summit, promoting discussion and innovation.- Actress
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London-born actress Serena Lorien's acting career started at an early age when she booked her first UK commercial at the tender age of 6. It was also from this tender age that Serena was attending the prestigious British Arts Academy Italia Conti. This world-renowned academy was also attended by many of the UK's stars like Kelly Brook, Russell Brand and Naomi Campbell.
In the UK, Serena enjoyed roles on many prime time Television fan favorites like the top-rating soap, BBC's EastEnders (1985), the long-running Grange Hill (1978), ITV's police drama The Bill (1984), Family Affairs (1997) & Manchild (2002).
On relocating to Hollywood, Serena became in high demand, she has a string of features under her belt, including Finding Neverland (2004), The Four Feathers (2002), A Voice in the Dark (2013) & A Way with Murder (2009) to name a few.
Her latest and upcoming films find her playing a multitude of characters: an American murderess in House of Manson (2014), an attorney in A Date With Oscar, a true story about a man who bought an Oscar from eBay, alongside Alimi Ballard, a reporter in Garbage (2012), alongside Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen and William Baldwin, a doctor in the psychological thriller [error], alongside Thora Birch and Efren Ramirez, a police detective in The Human Factor (1992), alongside Eric Roberts and Danny Trejo, A Voice in the Dark (2013), alongside Richard Portnow, a wealthy Southern socialite in the upcoming thriller Gripped, directed by 'David. A. Armstrong', a drug dealer's girlfriend in the upcoming action film Blood on the Border, alongside Martin Landau, and a DA in Poe (2012), alongside David Fine.
Serena was raised in a very creative family with a musician, singer/ songwriter father who had two number one albums on the UK's New Age charts.
Serena's voice can also be heard all over the world through her voice over work most notably in Agatha Christie's "Evil Under the Sun", playing "Gladys Narracott", the hotel maid for the Nintendo Wii.- Iris Sadler was born on 22 March 1908 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Little Dorrit (1987), Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) and Mind Your Language (1977). She died on 12 January 1991 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England, UK.
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Jazmin Aguilar is a Mexican American director/writer from Los Angeles. Her short film The Letter played at numerous Academy Award/BAFTA qualifying festivals. HBO licensed the short in 2020. She directed her first theatre play The Fruit Flies at the NBC Short + Sweet Hollywood competition. She won Best Director at the Young Entertainer Awards at Warner Brothers. She is an alumnus of the HBO Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today Fellowship. Jazmin was granted funds by McDonald's Spotlight Dorado for her short film Kid Ugly.- Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert 7th Earl of Carnarvon was born on 19 January 1924 in Lancaster Gate, London, England, UK. He was married to Jean Wallop and Jean Margaret Wallop. He died on 11 September 2001 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Thomas Pogue was born on 18 July 1873 in Gate City, Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for Lloyd's of London (1936), Divot Diggers (1936) and Stage Struck (1936). He died on 21 March 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Gladys Lehman was born on 24 January 1892 in Gates, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for Meet Joe Black (1998), Luxury Liner (1948) and Two Girls and a Sailor (1944). She was married to Benjamin H. Lehman Jr.. She died on 7 April 1993 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Actress
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Dava Hulsey was born in South Gate, California as Dava Lynn Spotts. She is best known for her work in "Christmas with the Krank's (2004) when she played Amanda Frohmeyer opposite Dan Aykroyd's Vic Frohmeyer. In 2005, "Something Came over Them" was an award winning short where she romped with the pastor. Her work in "Discovering Jacob" resulted in a nomination for Best Actress from Stay Tuned TV in the documentary category which won Best Director for Michael Goldsmith. She has been married to James Hulsey since August, 1969. They have two children and two grandchildren.- Clifton Wells was born on 28 July 1937 in South Gate, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Castle in the Sky (1986), Dragon Ball (1986) and Dragon Ball (1989). He died on 29 April 2000 in Long Beach, California, USA.
- Vanessa Bell was born on 30 May 1879 in 22 Hyde Park Gate, London, England, UK. She died on 7 April 1961 in Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex, England, UK.
- Bert Boeckmann was born on 21 August 1930 in South Gate, California, USA. He was a producer, known for Father/Son (1990), Break Even (2020) and Mistrust (2018). He died on 28 April 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jennifer Nahra was born on 22 May 1976 in Gates Mills, Ohio, USA.
- Bob Klein was born on 27 July 1947 in South Gate, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The NFL on CBS (1956), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on NBC (1965).
- Mike Battle was born on 9 July 1946 in South Gate, California, USA.
- Alan Curbishley was born on 8 November 1957 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Pundits (2020), Defoe (2024) and Match of the Day (1964).
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Leigh Mitchell was born on 17 June 1939 in South Gate, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Steel Magnolias (1989), L.A. Law (1986) and Jackson County Jail (1976). She was married to Ron Mitchell. She died on 11 March 2021 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sound Department
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Ryan Anthony Arakaki was born on 1 September 1987 in South Gate, California, USA. Ryan Anthony is known for Chosen (2013), Bad Blood (2015) and Red Sands (2009).- Doug Harvey was born on 13 March 1930 in South Gate, California, USA. He was an actor, known for A League of Their Own (1993), 1974 World Series (1974) and 1984 World Series (1984). He was married to Joy. He died on 13 January 2018 in Visalia, California, USA.
- Pete Rozelle ranks as the most successful executive in the history of American sports. Under Rozelle's management of commissioner, professional American football overtook baseball as America's past-time and television came to maturity as the prime conduit for sports entertainment.
When Rozelle took over the NFL as Commissioner in 1960, the league had only 12 teams and was facing competition from the upstart American Football League. The popularity of pro football was such that attendance at stadiums was lagging and some franchises were making as as $75,000 a season in TV rights. In the first decade under Rozelle, the NFL expanded and instituted the title game between the NFL and AFL that became known as the Super Bowl, preparatory to the 1970 merger of the two leagues under the NFL banner. Stadiums were packed and season tickets became such hard-to-come items that one had to inherit them or wait for the death of other holders before becoming part of the hallowed few with the treasured ducats. In the first decade of his commissionership, the value of a franchise increased dramatically.
Rozelle made the decision to televise games on all of the-then three national networks. In the 1960s, football flourished as it was the ideal sport to exploit the new technologies such as videotape. The popularity of the sport exploded and by the end of the decade it was the nation's #1 sport.
Rozelle also should be remembered for helping break down the barriers that limited opportunities for African American players, though the rival AFL showed the way in drafting black players from small, traditionally African American colleges ignored by the NFL.
Born in South Gate, California, on March 1, 1926, Alvin Ray Rozelle -- who had been nicknamed Pete as a child of five by his uncle -- grew up in the Los Angeles suburb Lynwood, California. He served a two-year hitch in the Navy tour, then attended Compton Junior College and the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit school, where he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1950.
Rozelle worked as a public relations officer for USF's athletic-department while a student, and then was hired as USF's assistant athletic director after graduating, leading to a job with the Los Angeles Rams, which hired Rozelle as publicity director in 1952. In 1955, Rozelle left the NFL for corporate public relations, but the Rams appointed him as general manager in 1955.
Bert Bell, the serving NFL commissioner, had recommended Rozelle as his diplomatic skills would be useful in settling an ownership dispute among the Rams owners. It was his political skills rather than his skills as a sports franchise general manager that made his reputation. Although he was quite successful at marketing the franchise, pioneering the sale of souvenirs, he was less successful at trades and scouting.
When Commissioner Bell died on October 11, 1959, NFL Treasurer Austin Gunsel took over management of the League for the rest of the season. The 50-year old Gunsel was a former F.B.I. agent who had served as both J. Edgar Hoover's administrative assistant and as the head of the NFL's investigative department under Bell before being made League treasurer in 1956 (a post he would hold until his retirement in 1966).
Gunsel was the favorite to be appointed permanent commissioner. However, at the January 1960 NFL general meeting held after the season concluded, the NFL owners -- facing competition from the upstart AFL, which had completed its first season -- elected Rozelle of the Rams the new Commissioner after 23 ballots. Rozelle's diplomacy and intelligence, as well as his marketing skills, had won him the job. He was 34 years old.
Rozelle presided over the League for 29 years, until 1989. When he retired, the NFL was hurt by drug scandals, unresolved labor problems, and Rozelle's long-standing feud with Oakland Raiders coach-owner Al Davis, the former AFL Commissioner who had resigned over the merger with the NFL.
Rozelle died on December 6, 1996, in Rancho Santa Fe, California, from brain cancer. His name had been synonymous with football, as that of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis had been with baseball two generations earlier, during its reign as America's favorite (outdoor) sport. - Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
- Location Management
David Peers was born on 24 June 1924 in Notting Hill Gate, London, England, UK. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for The Ladykillers (1955), The Man in the White Suit (1951) and PT Raiders (1955). He died on 19 December 2017 in England, UK.- Cyril Fry was born in 1917 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. He died in 2010 in the UK.
- Camera and Electrical Department
McVirn Etienne was born on 7 April 1963 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. McVirn is known for Charlie (2004) and Love Life (2002).- Temple Bell was born on 12 September 1902 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Romance of Mayfair (1925), The Amazing Partnership (1921) and God's Good Man (1919). She died on 5 September 2001 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Producer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Dean Ivemey was born on 2 November 1965 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. Dean is a producer, known for Untitled Daniel Johnson Project, Gone Fishing (2008) and Time of Her Life (2005).- Lorenzo Romar was born on 13 November 1958 in South Gate, California, USA.
- Bertha Lewis was born on 12 May 1887 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Mikado (1926). She was married to Herbert Heyner (baritone). She died on 8 May 1931 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
- Additional Crew
- Director
- Writer
Theo Richmond was born on 7 May 1929 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. Theo was a director and writer, known for Heavens Above! (1963), This Week (1956) and Police Cadet (1971). Theo was married to Diane Souccar and Lee Langley. Theo died on 25 August 2022 in London, England, UK.- Doug Griffin was born on 4 June 1947 in South Gate, California, USA. He died on 27 July 2016 in Clovis, California, USA.
- Yorkshire lass, born in Leeds - parents James and Lily Newell. Attended Low Road School, Hunslet (now demolished). Acting debut "Playing the Field" (2001). So hot filming on location in Garforth, crew had to bring on replenishments of mineral water. Awaiting big break, but does play National Lottery most weeks.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Gladys Ripley was born on 9 July 1908 in Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK. She was an actress. She was married to Squadron Leader F. Price and E.A. Dick. She died on 21 December 1955.- Constance Markievicz was born on 4 February 1868 in 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico, London, England, UK. She was married to Casimir Dunin Markievicz. She died on 15 July 1927 in Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
- George Taliaferro was born on 8 January 1927 in Gates, Tennessee, USA. He was married to Viola J. Taliaferro. He died on 8 October 2018 in Mason, Ohio, USA.
- Thomas Smith was born on 5 December 1970 in Gates, North Carolina, USA.