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Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his well-to-do, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle. His notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (1968), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Revolver (1973), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover/stepfather in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Lion of the Desert (1981), Castaway (1986), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).- Actress
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Victoria Hamilton is an English actress. After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Hamilton began her career in classical theatre, appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In 2002, she appeared in the London stage play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg alongside Clive Owen and later Eddie Izzard. She made her Broadway debut in 2003 when the production moved to New York, where she earned a Tony Award nomination. She won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in the play Suddenly, Last Summer, held in 2004 at the Lyceum Theatre.
Hamilton has often worked in the costume drama genre. During the 1990s, she had supporting roles in three Jane Austen adaptations: the 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice, the 1995 film Persuasion, and the 1999 film Mansfield Park.Hamilton won the role of Queen Victoria in the 2001 television production, Victoria & Albert, portraying the monarch in her early years. From 2008 to 2011, Hamilton was a cast member in the BBC1 series Lark Rise to Candleford. From 2016-17, she portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown.- Actor
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Martin Clunes was born the son of the noted Shakespearean actor Alec Clunes. He was educated at the Royal Russell School in Surrey and the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, London. He made his television debut playing an alien prince opposite Peter Davison in Snakedance: Part One (1983) (director Fiona Cumming later said she cast him because she was struck by his unusual looks and "Mick Jagger lips"). He then won a regular role in No Place Like Home (1983), a fairly traditional middle-class BBC sitcom starring William Gaunt.
Clunes' greatest breakthrough came with starring in British Men Behaving Badly (1992), an anarchic sitcom which proved to be one of the most popular series of the 1990s. He has since established himself as one of the UK's most consistently popular television actors, starring in the long-running Doc Martin (2004), recreating Leonard Rossiter's famous role in a new version of Reggie Perrin (2009) and playing Arthur Conan Doyle in Arthur & George (2015).- Amara was born to Sri Lankan parents who had moved to England from Zambia to further her father's work opportunities. She went to the Wimbledon High School and, although she enjoyed drama, she regarded acting as a risky profession and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, graduating with a 2:1 degree. She then spent two years working in the City of London dealing in mergers and acquisitions. Whilst at Oxford she had directed and appeared in plays and finally decided to go to drama school. Within a month of graduation she was auditioning for Wes Anderson's film 'The Darjeeling Limited'.
- Ben Miles trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, following next a memorable course of solid performances on both stage and screen, such as in the Old Vic's production of William Shakespeare's "Richard II" (as Bolingbroke) in 2005 alongside his father-in-law Gary Raymond and in Harold Pinter's Harold Pinter's "Betrayal" at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, with Kristin Scott Thomas and Douglas Henshall in 2011, directed by Ian Rickson. In 2014 Miles played Thomas Cromwell in the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) version of Hilary Mantel's novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" in Stratford and at the Aldwych Theatre in London. In 2015 the RSC brought the plays to New York City, where his interpretation was nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor at the Tony Awards. Among others, his notable stage work in prolific plays also includes an acclaimed production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's "Sunset at the Villa Thalia" premiered in London at the National Theatre of Great Britain in May 2016, directed by Simon Godwin together with Elizabeth McGovern, Sam Crane, Pippa Nixon, Christos Callow, Glykeria Dimou and Eve Polycarpou in the brilliant cast.
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Davina McCall was born on 16 October 1967 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Dead Set (2008), Doctor Who (2005) and A Bear's Christmas Tail (2004). She was previously married to Matthew Robertson and Andrew Leggett.- Julie T. Wallace (born Julie Therese Keir) trained at LAMDA and made her stage debut as the mother/teacher in 'Billy the Kid' at the Upstream Theatre, followed by 'The House of Usher' in Aberystwyth, and 'Beauty and the Beast' in Bristol. She made her London debut in 'Anne of the Worlds' at the Royal Court. She was BAFTA nominated for her role of Ruth in the BBC television production of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986).
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Actor, father, motorbike fanatic: Charley Boorman is the epitome of the modern adventurer in pursuit of fresh challenges away from the success of his personal life. Choosing two wheels as his preferred mode of transport, Charley harnessed the challenges of a 'round the World trip with Ewan McGregor. Now his sights are set on the unyielding sands of the desert.
Charley Boorman has been riding motorcycles since he was seven years old. The son of renowned film director John Boorman, he grew up on a farm in Ireland and used to ride through the fields on his first motorbike and took part in schoolboy motor cross and Enduro races. The bike bug remained with Charley and, for four years, he ran a motorcycle race team and spent the years riding with David Jeffries and Matt Llewelyn.
In 2004, Charley and his best mate Ewan McGregor came up with the madcap idea of circumnavigating the globe on motorbikes. After months of intense preparations when at times, it looked like the project would not get off the ground, the pair set off from London in April 2004.
Over the next three grueling months, they traveled through three continents and fifteen countries. Long Way Round (2004) was the realisation of a dream born out of two friends' love of motorbikes, the freedom of the open road, and the adrenaline rush of an extreme challenge. Their entire journey was filmed for Long Way Round (2004), a unique television series that was broadcast on Sky One in the UK and Bravo (USA) and spawned a best-selling DVD, book and CD soundtrack. It has now sold the world over into many territories including Australia, Canada, Japan, France, Spain, and Italy.
Following the overwhelming success of Long Way Round (2004), Charley has become an icon in the motorcycling world. On the Long Way Round (2004), UK Tour Charley visited motorcycle and adventure exhibitions plus BMW dealerships across the UK to talk about his adventures. Each event was a sell-out as crowds flocked to catch a glimpse of Charley and have their book or DVD signed. A similar tour of the southern hemisphere is to take place this winter.
Next up, Charley is taking on the desert with one of the World's harshest challenges: the Lisbon-Dakar Rally. This is not just a race out of Europe via the Iberian Peninsula and down through West Africa. This is one of the most physically and emotionally demanding battles across inhospitable terrain, alone, to achieve the impossible. But for Charley, it is, as for many others, one of the most romantic and dangerous races known to man.
It remains the only race open to both amateur and professional bikers and for a first time participant like Charley, finishing the race in Dakar will be the ultimate goal.- Actor
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Steve graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1997. He says the program was more like boot camp than college. Out of 2000 applicants, only 33 were accepted and Steve-O was one of them. However, after graduation, 10 were selected for the circus and this didn't include him. So he went back home to Albuquerque, New Mexico to film himself doing dangerous and stupid stunts for submission to skateboarding companies. Steve-O's relationship with Big Brother Magazine began in 1997 when they ran a side-bar article about him catching his face on fire when their Big Brother tour came through Albuquerque. In 1999 he moved from New Mexico to Florida. For six months he worked as a performer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and was then offered a job at the Hanneford Family Circus as a clown. During this time he was featured in several more issues of Big Brother Magazine and even filmed a part for the Big Brother video "Boob". This is when he became involved with Jackass. He says he did all his filming for the first season of Jackass within three days.- Actor
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Philippe Brenninkmeyer was born in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), Super Troopers (2001) and Reasonable Doubt (2014). He is married to Tara Lynn Orr.- Sarah Tansey was born in 1972 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Far from the Madding Crowd (1998), Beginner's Luck (2001) and In and Out of the Kitchen (2015).
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Nova Pilbeam was a famous child actress on stage and screen in the UK. Her biggest successes were her two movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and this film. She married director Pen Tennyson in 1939, but unfortunately she was widowed less than two years later when he died in WWII. She retired from movies in 1951.- Actress
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Gillian Bailey was born on 14 June 1955 in Wimbledon, South London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970), Blake's 7 (1978) and Poldark (1975).- Tall, thin and distinguished character actor David Quentin Gale was born on October 2, 1936 in Wimbledon, England. David Gale began his acting career on the New York stage in the late 50s. He first started acting in both movies and television in the early 70s. With his gaunt face, lean build, and intense and imposing screen presence, David was usually cast as extremely wicked and hateful villains. Gale achieved his greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with his marvelously robust and inspired portrayal of the icy, ruthless, and arrogant mad scientist Dr. Carl Hill in Stuart Gordon's terrific horror splatter gem Re-Animator (1985). He reprised this part in the enjoyable sequel Bride of Re-Animator (1990). David's other memorable roles include demented pop psychologist TV show host Dr. Anthony Blakely in The Brain (1988), at his deliriously wired and wacky best as batty CEO Carter Brown in Syngenor (1990), and evil corporate head Fulton Balcus in The Guyver (1991). Gale had recurring parts on the TV shows The Secret Storm (1954), The Edge of Night (1956), One Life to Live (1968), and Search for Tomorrow (1951). Among the TV series he made guest appearances on episodes of are Kojak (1973), Ryan's Hope (1975), Hart to Hart (1979), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), Tales from the Darkside (1983), L.A. Law (1986), Dallas (1978), and Knots Landing (1979). Moreover, David also had a lengthy and impressive stage career: He not only acted in Broadway stage productions of the classic plays "Of Mice and Men" and "Sweet Bird of Youth," but also acted in Off-Broadway stage productions of such plays as "Elizabeth the Queen," "Joe Egg," "The Trial," "Orpheus Descending," and "Anthony and Cleopatra." Gale was married and had a son. David died of complications from open-heart surgery on August 18, 1991, in Los Angeles, California.
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Robin Hardy was born on 2 October 1929 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Wicker Man (1973), Forbidden Sun (1988) and The Fantasist (1986). He was married to Victoria. He died on 1 July 2016 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK.- Adam Bond was born on 30 May 1981 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery. (2015), Maleficent (2014) and Whiskey Cavalier (2019).
- Marlo Dwyer was born on 30 June 1915 in Wimbledon, North Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for Dangerous Mission (1954), Prisoners in Petticoats (1950) and The Sniper (1952). She died on 28 September 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Joby Talbot began writing and performing in the early 90s, joining Neil Hannon in the UK pop phenomenon, The Divine Comedy. The successful partnership produced seven albums for The Divine Comedy, Ute Lemper's critical masterpiece, Punishing Kiss and a live collaboration with Michael Nyman, which was awarded the Edinburgh Festival's Critics Choice in 1997. Now highly in demand as a pop arranger, Talbot went on to work with artists such as Travis, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney and producer Nigel Godrich. In 2000, Joby's score to the prime time comedy The League of Gentlemen won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Title Music and a series of high profile commissions followed from BBC television. In the same year The British Film Institute asked Talbot to compose a new score for Hitchcock's silent classic The Lodger, and the film together with the new score is performed regularly across Europe and in the States. As a classical composer, Talbot has worked with many of the major European orchestras and has been commissioned by the prestigious BBC Proms Festival. In 2004, Classic FM appointed Joby Talbot as the radio station's first ever 'Composer in Residence' and Sony/BMG released the resulting album 'Once Around the Sun'. Future projects include a full length ballet, a feature film for Working Title and an album collaboration with The White Stripes.- Actress
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Helen Cotterill has had a long acting career since the early 1960s with one of her first acting roles being in the H.V. Kershaw-produced series for Granada, The Villains in 1964. The year after, she appeared in The Brain Drain, the final episode of the first season of the Coronation Street spin-off Pardon the Expression as Beryl, a vacuous shop assistant at Dobson and Hawkes who didn't even know the name of the then-Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. Twenty years later, she appeared in the video The Jubilee Years as Alice Hughes who had supposedly once lived at 13 Coronation Street before emigrating to Australia. It took until 2013 for her to appear in the parent programme as Margaret Cropper, Roy's stepmother. She appeared in the BBC soap The Newcomers in the late 1960s and also acted in popular dramas and comedies such as The Wednesday Play, Armchair Theatre, The Liver Birds, Love Thy Neighbour and had a regular role in the Thames Television comic-drama Born and Bred in 1980.
Her most recent credits include Casualty, Holby City and Doctors. Her extensive list of stage work includes three years with Sir Ian McKellen's Actors' Company on British, South American and Scandinavian tours and she is an accomplished watercolour painter and sells at exhibitions and by commission.- Dan Mersh was born on 20 June 1974 in Wimbledon, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), The Death of Stalin (2017) and Justice League (2017).
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Mark Dymond began his professional on-screen acting career in 1997. Born in Wimbledon, London, England in 1974, Dymond's career includes a fair balance of film and television works. His first major film project was in the James Bond franchise titled Die Another Day (2002) as the courier Van Bierk, whose identity promptly gets borrowed by Pierce Brosnan's James Bond. While most of the early 2000's saw Mark Dymond in mostly modest roles of a more standing-by or supporting nature, 2005 lent him the opportunity for a breakthrough from that stream of casting. In 2005, Mark Dymond was the lead for the adventure/fantasy sequel Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005), sharing the screen with Bruce Payne reprising his villainous role of Damodar and Clemency Burton-Hill as Dymond's on-screen wife. Along with Clemency Burton-Hill and several other cast and crew members, he also appeared in the video documentary titled Rolling the Dice: Adapting the Game to the Screen (2006) sharing his enthusiasm and experience of portraying a hero from a popular game franchise. Going into the mid to late 2000's, Mark Dymond had a recurring role as Dr. Lorcan O'Brien during the last three seasons of the UK-produced drama series The Clinic (2003). He also shared the screen with martial arts movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme in the action movie Until Death (2007). More recent projects included work in the Sci-Fi creature film Rage of the Yeti (2011) and a 2012 film short titled The Living and the Dying (2012). This film short is the first project for which Mark Dymond has written, produced and starred in.- Additional Crew
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Victoria Stilwell is a world-renowned dog trainer, best known as the star of the international hit TV series, It's Me or the Dog (2005), and CBS's Greatest American Dog (2008). Having filmed over 100 episodes of "It's Me or the Dog" since 2005, Stilwell is able to reach audiences in over 50 countries with her philosophy of positive training methods.
Her two best-selling books, "It's Me or the Dog: How to Have the Perfect Pet" and "Fat Dog Slim: How to Have a Healthy, Happy Pet", have been widely praised, and they detail her core reward-based training philosophy: "There's a Better Way to Train - Positively". Her highly anticipated third book, "Train Your Dog, Positively", will be released in the US in the spring of 2013. A passionate advocate for positive reinforcement dog training methods, Stilwell is the Editor-in-Chief of Positively.com, which features the world's leading veterinary behaviorists, dog trainers and behavioral scientists on her Positively Expert Blog. She is a vocal opponent of punitive, dominance-based training techniques which often result in "quick fixes" but ultimately cause more long-term harm than good while damaging the owner-dog relationship.
Stilwell is the CEO of Victoria Stilwell Positively Dog Training - the world's premier global network of positive reinforcement dog trainers. In addition to her globally available Positively Podcast series, she also produces several shows in her role as the director of training and behavior for the popular eHow Pets YouTube channel.
Stilwell is committed to helping the cause of animal rescue and rehabilitation and is heavily involved organizations around the world to increase awareness of puppy mills, dogfighting, animal abuse, pet overpopulation, dog bite prevention and other animal-related causes. A co-founder of the national Dog Bite Prevention conference series, Stilwell is also a National Ambassador for the American Humane Association and serves on the Advisory Boards of RedRover, DogTV, and Canine Assistants.
A regular guest on talk shows, news broadcasts and radio programs throughout the US, Europe and Asia, Stilwell was named 2009's Dog Trainer of the Year at the Purina ProPlan Dog awards and was the recipient of the prestigious 2011 Excellence in Journalism and Outstanding Contributions to the Pet Industry Award. Since its premiere in 2005, It's Me or the Dog has been the recipient of multiple honors including 2011 and 2012 Genesis Award Nominations and a 2009 People's Choice Award nomination. Stilwell is a regular columnist for several magazines, and she has been featured in numerous journals, magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Time.com, Oprah Magazine, Rachael Ray Everyday, MSNBC.com, Self Magazine, Shape Magazine, The Daily Mail, and The Sun.
Victoria resides in Atlanta with her husband, Van Zeiler, daughter and two rescue dogs, Sadie and Jasmine.- Additional Crew
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Christian Simpson was born in London to British parents, and moved to Hollywood in 2009. He has appeared in 4 of the top 5 movie sagas of all time including Star Wars. He now works in Hollywood as a Voice and Commercial Actor.
Before diversifying his entertainment career into work in front of and behind the camera, he began as an award-winning Composer and Pianist writing with gold-selling artists. He is also a successful British Inventor and Property Investor.
Simpson's first major work as an Actor was his succinct feature as Lt. Gavyn Sykes in the #1 PG movie of all time, Star Wars: Episode I (1999), with his likeness immortalized in the Star Wars video games Galaxies (-2011) and Battle For Naboo (2001), a title where his character took the lead role.
He made recurring appearances in the British television soap opera Family Affairs (2005) as Sergeant Wilson. He also had a part in the popular BBC series Judge John Deed (2007) as George Channing Jr., Casualty (2014) as Martin Turner, True Blood (2012) and more.
In 2015 he earned an "Additional Voices" credit on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and completed filming as British fighter pilot survivor Sgt. Fletcher Smith on Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).
Behind the camera Simpson also worked on film series including The Mummy (2008) as Brendan Fraser's Double, Star Wars (2005) as Anakin Skywalker's Stand-in/Double, The Dark Knight Trilogy (2012), and Harry Potter (2011) as the Old Fred Weasley, a character who ironically died young.
In 2015 he began development for the TV adaptation of his novel The Chrononaut (2008) with the executive producer of Superman Returns, and came full circle, becoming a writer for the official StarWars.- Actress
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Kate Humble was born on 12 December 1968 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She is an actress and assistant director, known for The Runner (1992), Nature (1982) and Coast to Coast (1995). She has been married to Ludo Graham since 1992.- Paul's film and TV work includes: The multi Academy Award winning The King's Speech directed by Tom Hooper, Secrets and Lies and Life is Sweet both written and directed by Mike Leigh, The Railway Children directed by Catherine Moorsehead, and Titanic Town directed by Roger Michell. On TV, regular roles in: Sharpe, A Many Splintered Thing, Cry Wolf, Crime Traveller, So Haunt Me, Vanishing Man, Big Meg Little Meg as well as guest leads in: Casualty, Eastenders E20, The Chief, Wexford, Cadfael, Sam's Game, The Count of Solar, House of Anubis, Teenage Kicks, Minder, Crime Stories, Holby City, My Family, Chef and The Bill.
Stage work includes Nottingham Playhouse's acclaimed production of The Ashes, Marriage and The Sisterhood both at The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, the World Premiere production of 6 Actors in Search of A Director written and directed by Steven Berkoff at The Charing Cross Theatre, Child Z at Southwark Playhouse, Twelfth Night at Bolton Octagon and Ludlow Festival, The Three Musketeers and The Princess of Spain national tour for ETT, A Man For All Seasons at York Theatre Royal, I Caught Crabs in Walberswick at The Bush, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Golden Ass at Shakespeare's Globe, Les Liaisons Dangereuses for the RSC, Marya at The Old Vic and It's A Great Big Shame devised and directed by Mike Leigh. - Actor
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Gregory Cooke was born in 1966 in Wimbledon, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Titanic (1997), Boys Life 3 (2000) and $30 (1999).- Jack Stanley was born on 5 June 1991 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Robinsons (2005) and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004).
- Réginal Kudiwu was born on 13 December 1971 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Anna (2019), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) and The Transporter Refueled (2015).
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James Bradford was born in 1938 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for 300 (2006), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) and The Red Violin (1998).- Actor
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Lionel Belmore was born on 12 May 1867 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Frankenstein (1931), Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) and The Vampire Bat (1933). He was married to Emmeline Florence Carder. He died on 30 January 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Gillian Murphy was born in 1979 in Wimbledon, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Black Swan (2010), Great Performances: Dance in America (1976) and Center Stage (2000). She has been married to Ethan Stiefel since 19 September 2015.- Writer
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Thomas Forwood was born on 25 March 1974 in Wimbledon, England, UK. Thomas is a writer and director, known for Courts mais GAY: Tome 12 (2006), Le moment venu (2006) and Crash of the Century (2005).- Actor
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Born to Jamaican parents in London, on January 14, 1965, Slick Rick, born Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters, is the most successful British-American rapper in music history. Brilliant word play, the effort-less ability to bring life to the stories he rhymed about, dead on pop-culture references and hilarious one-liners make him the wittiest rapper of all time.
He began his career in the late 80s, where he released a series of acclaimed recordings such as, "Children's Story", "La Di Da Di" and "Hey Young World." Slick Rick is best known for his British accent and his story telling innovations. His music has been frequently sampled and interpolated by other artists such as TLC, Talib Kweli, Eminem, Mos Def, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys and many others; with many of these songs later becoming hit singles. Slick Rick is known as one of the architects of Hip-Hop.
These days, much of Slick Rick's story remains untold. The articles about his legal troubles may sell magazines, but they tend to overshadow the rapper's impressive and influential body of work. Rick has spent more than seven years in prison, three and a half paying his debt to society and over four years in a federal detention center while hassling with Immigrations Services over his residency in the US. Slick Rick has been in this country since his childhood and has become a productive member of our society.
Despite life's setbacks, Rick continues his commitment to his craft. Above all, Rick is very dedicated to his community. He regularly mentors the youth whenever he is given the opportunity to do so.- Actor
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Jay Brown was born in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Kickoff (2011), The Sweeney (2012) and 12 (2012).- Animation Department
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John was wounded in WWII, while serving in the British Army "Desert Rats", in North Africa. Being a graphic artist, on return to England, he started as asst. art director at Pinewood Studio, with David Lean. Seeing a note on the studio notice board asking for cartoonists and artists to apply at GBA, Cookham, for work as animators, John applied, and was accepted. Here, under David Hand, (ex Disney director of Snow-White, Bambi), he worked for four years, becoming a first rate animator and director. GBA closed, John moved to US, and Disney, working on Peter Pan, and Lady & the Tramp, in Les Clark's unit. In 1954 he left Disney to start Fine Arts Films producing Petroushka (1956) with I. Stravinsky, winning five international awards, starting a new artistic direction in the use of animation. Journey to the Stars, (1961), seen by 7 million visitors to the Seattle World's Fair, was a major step, and animating Irma La Douce (trailer), for Billy Wilder, made it possible to enjoy the artistic merits of Paris hookers. He started John Wilson Prods., for Aussie TV in Melbourne, 1963, in a brief visit down under. Back with FAF, in '64, John got the Peabody award for NBC's Exploring, as the Best Kid's Show. This led to ten years work for US-TV, (CBS, ABC, NBC) in children's and primetime entertainment. In 1971 he produced and directed the animated feature Shinbone Alley (1970), a literary and musical success based on the works of poet Don Marquis. This received the Golden Phoenix Award at the Atlanta Film Festival, (Best of Fest). For the next ten years, John produced many award-winning TV series, (Madeline-DIC), Bucky O'Hare and Peter Pan for FOX-TV. Stanley the Ugly Duckling (1/2 Hour Musical for ABC-TV. Returning to OZ, in '83, John set Ferngully for AFC, as an animated feature, which successfully protected the rainforests, released by Warner Bros. At present, John is working on the musical version of Peer Gynt.- Writer
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Raymond Briggs was born on 18 January 1934 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Snowman (1982), Ethel & Ernest (2016) and When the Wind Blows (1986). He was married to Jean Taprell Clark. He died on 9 August 2022 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.- Set Decorator
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Peter Howitt was born in 1928 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was a set decorator and art director, known for Braveheart (1995), Moonraker (1979) and Elizabeth (1998). He died on 22 September 2021 in Malta.- British novelist Georgette Heyer was born in London, England, in 1902. Although she showed an aptitude for writing at an early age, she did not, as many aspiring writers often do, attend college as a journalism or English major; in fact, she did not attend college at all. At age 17 she wrote her first novel, "The Black Moth", which was published in 1921.
In 1925 she married G.R. Rougier, who was at the time a resident of British East Africa, and she accompanied him there after the wedding. They stayed there for three years, then moved to Yugoslavia for a year before finally returning to England.
Her historical novels and detective fiction met with great success, and several of her books were turned into films. The "Boston Transcript" noted that her detective fiction books "had the delightful talent of blending humor and mystery", and the "New York Times" book reviewer said that "there are not so many shudders in [her] murder mysteries as there are in those of some other writers, but there is a lot more fun".
On July 4, 1974, she died of lung cancer in London, England. - Jane Briers was born in 1939 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Close to Home (1989), Goodnight Sweetheart (1993) and Life Without George (1987).
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Over his 30-year career, award-winning British mixer, producer and composer Gareth Cousins has been a part of some of the most groundbreaking film music in recent history, including the BAFTA and Academy Award-winning score for Gravity (2013), and scores for such blockbuster titles as Baby Driver (2017), Suicide Squad (2016), American Assassin (2017) and Notting Hill (1999).
Beginning his career at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, he has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Phil Collins, Elvis Costello, Sting and the multi-platinum classical crossover quartet, Bond.
Throughout his career, Cousins has composed his own music, scoring hundreds of television episodes.
In addition to his work on big and small screens, Cousins recently partnered with the venerable Royal Shakespeare Company to record and produce the scores and speeches for the complete cycle of Shakespeare's plays.- Writer
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British poet and novelist Robert Graves was born Robert von Ranke Graves in London, England, in 1895. He began to write poetry while a student at London's Charterhouse School, and even while serving as an officer in the British army during World War I he kept at it, turning out three books of poetry in 1916 and 1917 while posted to the western front, where he was seriously wounded in 1916. His war experiences resulted in his well-received autobiography, "Goodbye to All That", in 1919. They also contributed to a long spell of mental problems in the 1920s, culminating in his divorce in that same period. In 1929 he moved to Majorca, Spain, with an American poet he had met, Laura Riding, and the two were together for almost 15 years.
In 1934 he wrote what is his most famous novel, "I, Claudius", a first-person narrative "written" by the Roman emperor Claudius, chronicling life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberias and the notorious Caligula. Other historical novels followed, including "Claudius the God" (1934), "Count Belisarius" (1936) and 1944's "The Golden Fleece" (aka "Hercules, My Shipmate"). It was while conducting research for this novel that Graves became interested in mythology, resulting in what is arguably his most controversial work, "The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth" in 1948. That same year he published his "Collected Poems", which he subsequently revised over the years, and turned out a translation of "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam" in 1967. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1961, and stayed there until 1966.
He died in Majorca, Spain, in 1985.- Production Manager
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Liz Richards was born in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. Liz is known for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Mulan (2020) and The Zookeeper's Wife (2017).- Writer
- Actor
- Script and Continuity Department
Born in Wimbledon in the early 1950's. Marc Platt attended technical college to learn catering before working with Trust House Forte. He later joined the BBC on the administrative side, involved in the cataloging of data regarding the BBC's radio output. He had long been a fan of Doctor Who (1963) and wrote the final story to go into production, Ghost Light: Part One (1989), having submitted many previous ideas which had not been accepted. Platt also novelized the story for Virgin Publishing and provided background notes for Titan Books' script book of the story. He has also contributed to Virgin Publishing's "Doctor Who: The New Adventures" series of original novels.- Music Department
- Additional Crew
- Sound Department
Daniel Pinder was born on 23 November 1971 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is known for The Dark Knight (2008), Priest (2011) and Big Hero 6 (2014).- Actor
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Abraham Chowdhury was born on 3 May 1984 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Labyrinth (2011) and Barir Naam Shahana (2023).- Director
- Producer
- Actress
Joan Kemp-Welch was born on 23 September 1906 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She was a director and producer, known for Haunted Honeymoon (1940), 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941) and Cool for Cats (1956). She was married to Ben Wright and Peter Moffatt. She died on 5 July 1999 in England, UK.- Soundtrack
Pearl Lowe was born on 7 April 1970 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She has been married to Danny Goffey since 4 December 2008. They have three children. She was previously married to Bronner Handwerger.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Porl Thompson was born on 8 November 1957 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Ant-Man (2015), About Time (2013) and Gringo (2018). He has been married to Dali'esque Thompson since 13 November 2014. He was previously married to Janet Smith.- Kenneth Edwards was born on 18 August 1901 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Venusian (1954), An Honourable Murder (1960) and The Vise (1954). He was married to Noel Dyson. He died on 25 October 1970 in Canonbury Park North, London, England, UK.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
- Visual Effects
John Harris was born on 15 May 1925 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Superman (1978), Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). He died on 3 July 2012 in West Sussex, England, UK.