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Ben has a host of notable television performances under his belt including a starring role in BBC One's The Split, Silent Witness, ITV's Law & Order, Cleaning Up, Brief Encounters, Midwinter of the Spirit and Des, Channel 4's The Inbetweeners and Derek, BBC thriller Hunted, BBC comedies Rev, Miranda, Fleabag, Russell Howard's Good News, Live at the Apollo, and Brittania for Sky Atlantic. He also stars in the Amazon movie Cinderella and forthcoming releases include The Light, a drama series for Channel 4, the AppleTV thriller Suspicion and Jane Austen feature Persuasion (Netflix).
He is highly regarded for his work with Ricky Gervais, touring, writing and acting alongside him since 2012. Smith starred in the 2016 Gervais movie David Brent: Life on the Road, as well as working on the C4 series Derek and a number of comic songs and sketches. Ben also boasts a wide following amongst children, creating and co-writing the BAFTA winning Four o'Clock Club and starring in and writing for the cult animation Strange Hill High, both for CBBC. He read a number of different books for CBeebies Bedtime Stories and appeared in the film adaptation of the bestselling book Ratburger, for Sky One.
Ben has written music for the screen since 2010 including CBBC's Four o'Clock Club and Strange Hill High, as well as for the movies Attack The Block and Quartet. He has also penned a number of mainstream advertising campaigns including Sainsbury's and the wildly successful Snoop Dogg series for Just Eat. He still makes Rap music for himself and his fans under the name Doc Brown.- Actor
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After three years of performing arts studies, Chucky Venn has plied his trade professionally in the acting business for eleven years. His big break came when he auditioned for the role of Curtis Alexander on hit football soap Dream Team (Hewlland International, Sky One). What originally started out as a two-episode contract developed into a three-year role filming 98 episodes. In-between projects he also landed a featured role in medical drama Casualty (BBC1) as well as The Bill (ITV). After which he then swapped Sky One's No.1 soap for prime time ITV's Footballers Wives (Shed Productions). Chucky has featured in 'Return to House on Haunted Hill (Warner Premier), Blockbusters 'Bourne Ultimatum' (Universal Pictures), 'Batman The Dark Knight' (Warner Brothers), 'Thick as Thieves' (Lionsgate) with Morgan Freeman & Antonio Banderess plus 'Sharpe's Peril' (Picture Palace, ITV) with Sean Bean and the horror sequel 'Wrong Turn 3' (Twentieth Century Fox), as well as strong performances in the Olivier nominated hit plays Iya Lle 'The First Wife' (Soho Theatre) and hit musical 'Annie Get Your Gun' (Young Vic Theatre), with Jane Horrocks, playing the first Black 'Buffalo Bill'. Chucky played a lead role in the action movie 'Ghost Recon Alpha' with Oscar Winning directors Herve De Crecy & Francois Alaux, as well as featuring in the Tragic Theatrical Drama 'Wedlock Of The Gods' (Cochrane Theatre) and a National Tour of the hit play Keeler with Paul Nicholas. After landing a role on hit No1 TV show EastEnders (BBC1) playing Ray Dixon, Chucky has received an MVSA & Screen Nation Award for Best Male TV Star.- Actor
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Micheál MacLiammóir was a theatrical giant who dominated Irish theatre for over 50 years. Actor, designer, playwright and brilliant raconteur he was very much his own creation. He cut an imposing figure under the spotlight and in real life dressed flamboyantly wearing full make-up at all times and a jet black hairpiece. When he died in 1978 aged 79 The Irish Times wrote, "Nobody can assess the contribution that Micheál MacLiammóir made to Irish theatre." Throughout his life MacLiammóir closely guarded the fact that he was not in fact Irish at all but had been born in London. As Alfred Willmore he had been a child actor on the London stage in the company of Noël Coward. He later travelled widely throughout Europe, studying arts and languages, before reaching Ireland where he met his future partner, the actor Hilton Edwards. In 1928 the two men started the world famous Gate Theatre in Dublin and among the early players were James Mason and Orson Welles, the latter employing him later to be Iago to Welles' cinematic Othello.
MacLiammóir appeared on Broadway in the 1930s and from the 1950s onwards toured the world in an acclaimed one man show 'The Importance of Being Oscar', based on the life of Oscar Wilde. He followed this in 1963 with 'I Must Be Talking to My Friends', a show about Irish writers, and lastly with 'Talking About Yeats', his final one man entertainment. On MacLiammóir's death Sir John Gielgud commented, "Designer, wit, linguist and boon companion as well as actor, he was a uniquely talented and delightful creature."- Actor
- Writer
Whilst still a student, Antony Ernest Brown toured German universities with his own production of Sheridan's 18th Century drama The Rivals. Joining RADA in January 1954 Antony trained for a full two years, graduating in December 1955. Then, in 1956, the London-born actor took his diploma to Stratford-upon-Avon to sign up with the Royal Shakespeare Company, at first doing small parts, although he did get the chance to tour with the company abroad, including Russia. After a spell doing both television and theatre in the 1960s, he joined the National Theatre in 1974. Confusingly, he was sometimes billed in theatre programmes (and in some tv-credits) as "Anthony Brown," but this would appear to be the result of careless printing. Reports of his death in 2001 were premature and undoubtedly caused by confusion with his newsreader namesake. Actually, the 88-year-old actor was said by his Old Vic colleagues to be still sending out Christmas cards in 2017.- Stunts
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Alan Stuart was born on 31 August 1931 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Willow (1988), Stormbreaker (2006) and Formula 51 (2001). He was married to Margaret Stuart. He died on 28 November 2016 in Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK.- Trevor Baylis was born on 13 May 1937 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. He died on 5 March 2018 in Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London, England, UK.
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Tony Gurrin was born in 1926 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. Tony was an editor, known for Matushka (1973), That Sinking Feeling (1979) and Behind the Rent Strike (1979). Tony was married to Dorothy Taylor. Tony died on 16 August 2015 in the UK.- Writer
- Actress
Lucienne Hill was born on 30 January 1923 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. She was a writer and actress, known for Becket (1964), It Started in Paradise (1952) and Play of the Week (1959). She was married to James Hill, Robert Davies and Andrew Broughton. She died on 29 December 2012 in Wargrave, Berkshire, England, UK.- Marjorie Battiss was born on 22 February 1886 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Stepping Toes (1938). She died in 1976 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK.
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Esther Coleman was born on 8 October 1900 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Songs My Mother Sang (1926), Derby Day (1937) and Derby Day (1938). She died on 28 February 1989 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- Josiah Stamp was born on 21 June 1880 in Kilburn, London, England, UK. He was married to Olive Jessie Marsh. He died on 16 April 1941 in Shortlands, Bromley, Kent, England, UK.