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- Nicholas Smith was born on 5 March 1934 in Banstead, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Are You Being Served? (1972) and Are You Being Served? (1977). He was married to Mary Wall. He died on 6 December 2015 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
- Robert Lang was born on 24 September 1934 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Dance of Death (1969) and 1990 (1977). He was married to Ann Bell. He died on 6 November 2004 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
- Michael Johnson was born on 5 June 1939 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Human Jungle (1963), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and The Newcomers (1965). He died on 24 February 2001 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
- Dennis Andrew Nilsen, 1945 in Strichen, Fraserburgh, Scotland, also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer is a British serial killer who lived and murdered in London. In 1983 he was convicted of six murders and two attempted murders and is believed to have killed at least 15 men and boys between 1978 and 1982. He abhorred cruelty to animals, yet murdered human beings. He was a loner, yet kept the corpses of his victims in his flat for company. He was eventually caught after his disposal of dismembered human entrails blocked his household drains: the drain cleaning company found that the drains were congested with human flesh and contacted the police. Nilsen was brought to trial at the Old Bailey on 24 October, 1983. He pleaded diminished responsibility as a defense, in order to seek a verdict of guilty to manslaughter, but was convicted of six murders and two attempted murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983. In 1993, he was given permission to give a televised interview from prison.
- Bernard Spear was born on 11 September 1919 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Yentl (1983) and The Man Who Cried (2000). He was married to Mary Newton. He died on 9 May 2003 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
- H.H. Asquith, considered the founder of the British welfare state, was the prime minister of the United Kingdom who led the British Empire into the monumental debacle that was World War I.
The son of a cloth merchant, Henry Herbert Asquith was born in Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and attended Balliol College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. After graduation he became a barrister and was called to the bar in 1876. He married Helen Kelsall Melland, the daughter of a Manchester physician, in 1877. By the early 1880s he had become financially well-off from his law practice, enough so to consider politics (members of Parliament were not paid a real salary until the 1970s). He was first elected to Parliament in 1886, standing as the Liberal candidate for East Fife, Scotland.
His first wife gave him four sons and one daughter before dying from typhoid in 1891. He remarried in 1894, taking Margot Tennant, the daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, as his second wife. She bore several children, but only a son and daughter survived into adulthood. Asquith was called Herbert by his family, but his second wife called him Henry, and those who called him by his Christian name made the switch. However, in public he was addressed only as H.H. Asquith.
In 1892 he became Home Secretary during William Gladstone's last government (as Home Secretary Asquith signed the arrest order for Oscar Wilde, who was eventually incarcerated for lewd behavior). Three years after the Liberals went out of power in 1895, he was offered the party leadership but turned it down. After the Liberals' landslide victory in the 1906 general election, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer under Campbell Bannerman, a post in which he proved a stalwart proponent of free trade. Bannerman resigned the premiership due to illness in April 1908 and Asquith succeeded him, becoming the first member of the professional middle class to serve as Prime Minister.
His first government launched a guns-and-butter legislative programme, building up the British Navy in an arms race with Germany while introducing social welfare programmes. Asquith can be considered the father of the British welfare state, as his government introduced government pensions in 1908. The programme was fiercely resisted by the Tories, which provoked a constitutional crisis in 1909 when the Conservative majority in the House of Lords rejected the government's "People's Budget." Traditionally finance was the province of the House of Commons, and the resulting constitutional crisis forced a general election in January 1910. Though the Liberals were returned to government with a majority, their numbers in the Commons were much reduced, and the crisis continued.
King Edward VII consented to filling the House of Lords with freshly-minted Liberal peers, who would override the Lords' veto, if Asquith agreed to hold another general election, after which he would act if the impasse continued. However, Edward VII died in May 1910, before the second general election. Asquith had to use his considerable powers of persuasion to get Edward's successor, King George V, to agree to the plan. The new king was hesitant, as packing the Lords would undermine the power of the hereditary aristocracy. Before the December 1910 general election (the last held for eight years), Asquith's persuasion paid off, and George V agreed to pack the House of Lords. The Liberals won their second election of 1910, though the balance of power in the government rested with peers from Ireland, who demanded a Home Rule bill as the price of support for Asquith's third government.
The Parliament Act of 1911 circumscribed the legislative power of the House of Lords, as the upper chamber of Parliament was limited to delaying, but not defeating outright, any bill passed by the House of Commons. Asquith paid off the Irish block with the Third Irish Home Rule Bill, which achieved Royal Assent in late 1914, though implementation of the law was suspended for the duration of World War I, which the UK had become involved in due to a spider web of treaties. The Irish question remained a tinderbox, and while civil war in Ireland over the fate of Ulster was averted in 1914 by the outbreak of the war in Europe, simmering tensions would lead to the Easter Rebellion of 1916, which would prove to be one of the factors that contributed to Asquith's loss of power. The other was the war.
In May 1915 the Cabinet split over a scandal involving the dearth of munitions available at the front. Asquith ultimately was held responsible for the shortcomings in British war production. The "Shell Crisis" underscored the need for the British economy to be put on a wartime footing. Responding to the discord, Asquith formed a new government, creating a national coalition that included members of the Opposition (though an election should have been held in 1915, elections were suspended for the duration of the war). David Lloyd George, the most dynamic of the Liberal ministers from the old cabinet, was made minister of munitions.
The new coalition government did nothing to bolster Asquith's premiership. Both Liberals and Tories criticized his performance over the conduct of the war and assigned him some of the blame for the failed offensives at the Somme (in which Asquith's eldest son Raymond died) and Gallipoli (which led to the resignation of Winston Churchill, then a Liberal MP, as First Sea Lord). He was also blamed for his handling of the armed Easter Rebellion of Irish Catholics in Dublin in April 1916 and the resulting civil war. The Machiavellian Lloyd George undermined Asquith by splitting the Liberal Party into pro- and anti-Asquith factions. The result was that Asquith resigned as prime minister on December 5, 1916, and was succeeded by Lloyd George.
After resigning, Asquith continued in his post as Liberal Party leader, even after losing his seat in the 1918 elections. He returned to the House of Commons in a 1920 by-election and played a key role in helping the Labour Party form a minority in 1924, which gave Ramsay MacDonald his first--though short-lived--premiership.
The minority Labour government fell in 1924, and in the subsequent election won by the Tories, Asquith lost his seat in the Commons. He was raised to the hereditary peerage as Viscount Asquith, of Morley in the West Riding of the County of York, and Earl of Oxford and Asquith in 1925. Asquith moved over to the House of Lords and finally resigned the Liberal Party leadership in 1926. He died in 1928.
Violet Bonham Carter (maiden name Violet Asquith), Asquith's only daughter by his first wife, was a successful writer who was made a Life Peeress in her own right (she is the grandmother of Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter). His son Cyril became a Law Lord, and two other sons married well, one being the poet Herbert Asquith. His two children by Margot were Elizabeth (later Princess Antoine Bibesco), a writer, and Anthony Asquith, a well-regarded film director. - Gordon Salkilld was born on 9 May 1927 in Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Potter (1979), The Playbirds (1978) and Under Suspicion (1991). He was married to Irene Hammond. He died on 17 May 2003 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
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Morton M. Lewis was born on 25 October 1917. Morton M. was a producer and director, known for Naughty Girls on the Loose (1976). Morton M. died on 22 May 2006 in Sutton, Greater London, England, UK.- Art Department
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Anthony Ciccone was born on 3 May 1956 in Bay City, Michigan, USA. He is known for Nightwatch (1997), Dangerous Game (1993) and The Force (1994). He died on 24 February 2023 in Suttons Bay, Michigan, USA.- Huckle was born into a middle-class family in Ashford, Kent on 14 May 1986. He was educated at the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, where he was described as "a bit of a loner, but nothing out of the ordinary" by friends. At the age of 16, he took part in a month-long expedition to visit a school in Namibia before leaving the Harvey Grammar School to study at the nearby South Kent College.
Huckle was a regular worshipper at Ashford Baptist Church, where he was described as a quiet man. He was also a member of a church in London, which he continued to attend up until the time of his re-arrest in January 2015. - Robert Locke was born on 19 July 1956 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Poirot (1989), '68 (1988) and Roger Doesn't Live Here Any More (1981). He died on 15 July 1992 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
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Pat Rooney, Jr. was the son of Broadway's dance legend Pat Rooney. The elder Rooney's signature act was a tap routine set to the song hit "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady". Rooney trained his son Percy (nicknamed Pat Jr., although he was really Pat III), and father and son danced in vaudeville and films. In 1935, Rooney and son toured in vaudeville with violinist-comedian Herman Timberg and his son. The Timberg and Rooney kids hit it off, and formed their own vaudeville act. They were signed by Educational Pictures for 10 musical-comedy short subjects. Herman Timberg, Jr. quit the series in 1937 to produce stage revues, and later became a character actor as Tim Herbert. Rooney retired to a New Hampshire farm in 1940.- Actor
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Eddie Yeoh was a renowned Sifu in the art of Wing Chun. Arriving from Asia he began to teach kung fu alongside a handful of other students who came with him including Austin Go who some older people may recall had a kung fu shop off of Carnaby street in the west end of London After settling down and getting married to his beautiful wife Sandra , eddie opened his own wing Chun school that was true to the art and taught many students. He also showcased his skills at street events where he was photographed bending steel bars with his throat and throwing pound notes into wood like they were knives Eddies heritage also includes multiple film roles in Hollywood films especially as they used the Uk studios such as Elstree where he was passionate about acting His martial arts background dates back to Yip Man where he was in fact a student after the departure of the of course well known Bruce Lee. Yip man only took on a few students directly and this was a great honour for Eddie and his colleagues and he excelled in his skills When in England in his middle years he had a family and lived Redbridge Essex and even drove a car with a cherished plate with the name Sifu upon it. He took on a few local English students not for money but for sharing his skills for many years and was an honourable man- Additional Crew
Jed Edge was born in 1931 in London, England, UK. He is known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Company of Wolves (1984) and It Couldn't Happen Here (1987). He died on 11 April 2013 in Sutton, England, UK.- Writer
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Donald Woods was born on 15 December 1933 in Elliotdale, South Africa. He was a writer, known for Cry Freedom (1987), Tongues Untied (1989) and Biko (1986). He was married to Wendy Woods. He died on 19 August 2001 in Sutton, London, England, UK.- Editor
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Peter Boita was born on 25 August 1924. He was an editor, known for Aliens (1986), The Jewel of the Nile (1985) and Nightbreed (1990). He died in October 1997 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.- Actress
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France Chevrette was born on 21 July 1956. She was an actress, known for Mack Sennett, roi du comique (2000), Robin et Stella (1988) and Fred et cie (1994). She died on 12 May 2018 in Sutton, Québec, Canada.- Writer
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Benny Green was born on 9 December 1927 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Modesty Blaise (1966), Son of Hitler (1979) and Golden Gala (1978). He was married to Toni Kanal. He died on 22 June 1998 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.- Actor
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Arthur Lane was born on 11 June 1910 in Kings Norton, Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Strange World of Planet X (1956), Secret Venture (1955) and The Interrupted Journey (1949). He died on 28 April 1987 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.- Production Designer
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Jocelyn Herbert was born on 22 February 1917 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She was a production designer and costume designer, known for Tom Jones (1963), If.... (1968) and Is That All There Is? (1992). She was married to Anthony Baruh Lousada. She died on 6 May 2003 in Long Sutton, Hampshire, England, UK.- Eric Le Fre was born on 18 September 1903 in Clapham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Letting in the Sunshine (1932). He died in 1979 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
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Jon Hiseman was born on 21 June 1944 in Blackheath, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Charlie's Angels (2000), A Touch of Frost (1992) and Sample (2019). He was married to Barbara Thompson. He died on 12 June 2018 in Sutton, England, UK.- Sandra Michaels was born on 5 April 1944 in Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Great Expectations (1959), Katy (1962) and Fact and Fiction (1960). She died on 23 August 2006 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.
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Kenneth Milne-Buckley was born on 1 May 1906 in Chadderton, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for The Betty Driver Show (1952), Compact (1962) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He was married to Sylvia Peters. He died on 25 February 1982 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.- Joanna Clarke was born on 15 March 1921 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Nightwatchman's Stories (1959), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Benbow and the Angels (1955). She was married to Robin May. She died on 8 August 1975 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK.