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Charlotte Long was born on 9 October 1965 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Tripods (1984), The Chain (1984) and Schoolgirl Chums (1982). She died on 6 October 1984 in Oxfordshire, England, UK.

Leslie Hamilton Gearren was born on 26 September 1956 in Salisbury, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). She died on 22 August 2020 in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA.

Elegant and aristocratic, Elizabeth Inglis was one of the most promising British actresses in the beginning of the 1940s. She was born on July 10, 1913 in Colchester, Essex, to Margaret Inglis (Hunt) and Alan George Hawkins. After making her debut in Borrowed Clothes (1934) and having small roles in some of Alfred Hitchcock's early movies, she reached the point of co-starring next to Bette Davis in William Wyler's The Letter (1940). She vanished from public view, though, as soon as she married television producer Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., shortly after World War II. Despite the fact she abandoned cinema to raise her children, Trajan and Sigourney, she proved to be a good mentor for her later superstar daughter, Sigourney Weaver. She made a momentary appearance in James Cameron's epic Aliens (1986), where she portrayed Ellen Ripley's (played by Sigourney) elderly deceased daughter. Elizabeth Inglis died at age 94 on August 25, 2007 in Santa Monica, California.

Lou Gish was a bright and sassy actress of natural poise and comic edge. The daughter of the actors Roland Curram and Sheila Gish, she demonstrated her range in her last two stage roles.

At the tiny Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, west London, in January last year, she played General Pinochet's Spanish lawyer in Thea Sharrock's riveting promenade production of Fermín Cabal's Tejas Verdas (Green Gables), a moving memorial to Chilean torture victims. Last summer she took on the role of Goneril in Steven Pimlott's lucid version of King Lear, starring David Warner, in the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.

In the first, she was sleek, reasonable, assured. In the second, she tore up the stage, dashing to the floor the Bible proffered by a distraught Albany (Raad Rawi) and channelling her evil complots through a serpentine presence beautifully contrasted with Zoe Waites's choleric Regan. Her younger sister, Kay Curram, played Cordelia.

Lou and Kay were returning to Chichester in part to memorialise their mother's last stage performance there - as Arkadina in The Seagull in 2003 (a production in which Kay played Nina) - but also to get over it. Typically, they arranged company visits to the local bowling alley and teased their leading man by calling him "Dave" - "He's so not a Dave," they said. Warner himself described Lou as "a wonderful, positive presence, a superb actress whose spirit remained with us for the entire run". She had been forced to leave the production when her illness took hold again.

Lou Gish was born and raised in London. After Macaulay church school, Alleyn's in Dulwich, and Furzedown school, Wandsworth, she took a degree at Camberwell School of Art. She first thought of going into journalism; as a student she won a prize for an article she wrote for Harper's magazine, and the then editor, Beatrix Miller, said she would take her on after graduation.

But Lou decided to change direction and took an office job with the actors' agent Jeremy Conway, where she answered the telephone and served the tea, sometimes jokingly dressed in a waitress uniform. A role in a fringe production in Paddington led to the acquisition of an agent of her own, and a notable cameo in Sean Mathias's 1994 revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living at the Donmar Warehouse. Rachel Weisz was a sensational, sulky Gilda in this production, and Gish, no way fazed, played Helen Carver as a screeching socialite in a glittering sheath.

When her parents first separated (Sheila Gish later married the actor and director Denis Lawson), Roland Curram sombrely announced to his daughters that he was coming out as gay. No big surprise there, said Lou, "as he had brought us up on a diet of Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Barbra Streisand." Gish and Curram had met while working on the film Darling in the mid-1960s. The star and the director, Julie Christie and the late John Schlesinger, were Lou's godparents - the coolest, she said, in the world.

In a second collaboration with Mathias, Lou played a mannish playwright and adoring assistant to Sian Phillips's Marlene Dietrich in Pam Gems's Marlene. She specialised in such strong, but marginalised, romantic figures: at the Watford Palace in 1998, in Phyllis Nagy's skilful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley, she played Marge as a hilarious piggy-in-the-middle. Later that year, she joined her stepfather Denis Lawson's production of Little Malcolm and his Struggle against the Eunuchs, starring Ewan McGregor, at the Hampstead Theatre, and subsequently in the West End. She played Ann, the object of the lads' fear and misogyny - and of a brutal attack - with devastating contempt.

In 1999, Michael Billington described how Lou - slim, green-eyed and dark-haired - lit up the Chichester stage as a rejected fiancée in Maria Aitken's revival of Noel Coward's underrated comedy Easy Virtue. She was the perfect, swish, middle-class Helena in Look Back in Anger at the Bristol Old Vic in 2001, and an effortlessly aristocratic Duchess of Malfi at the Salisbury Playhouse the following year. Of this latter performance, Alastair Macaulay wrote in the Financial Times that "she doesn't invite us into her tragedy; we are riveted by it from a distance."

Over the last 10 years of her life, Gish appeared regularly on television in such series as The Thin Blue Line (1995) EastEnders (1985), Casualty, Doctors (2000), Wire in the Blood, Coupling (2000) and Where the Heart Is.

She died of cancer at the age of 38 and was survived by her partner, the actor Nicholas Rowe, and her father, stepfather and sister.

She made her stage debut at the Floral Hall in Scarborough with Jack Hylton. Strongly associated with comedy and impersonations she played her first straight part in 'Mr Gillie' at London's Garrick Theatre with Alastair Sim and George Cole and also appeared with them in 'The Bargain' at London's St Martin's Theatre. She lived in a 300 year old cottage in the heart of Sussex.

Hildegard Neil was born on 20 May 1939 in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Antony and Cleopatra (1972), King Lear (1999) and Macbeth (1997). She was married to Brian Blessed, John Cartmel-Crossley and Barry Wenn. She died on 19 September 2023.

Pamela Salem was born on 22 January 1944 in Bombay, State of Bombay, India. She was an actress, known for Never Say Never Again (1983), The Great Train Robbery (1978) and Gods and Monsters (1998). She was married to Michael O'Hagan. She died on 21 February 2024 in Surfside, Florida, USA.

Started ballet and tap instruction at age eight under Elsie McDonald (sister of actress Jeanette McDonald's). By age twelve, the Arters twins were doing a stage presentation based upon the famous Scope-A-Tune routine of the European Kessler Sisters. Began print and store modeling in Philadelphia at age fifteen. An in-demand model by age sixteen, she appeared with Eagles' football sensation Tommy McDonald for a Penn Fruit campaign. Her mother lied about her age, which enabled her to go to New York to model in the garment district while still in high school. After making the rounds of the New York modeling circuit, she was signed by the prestigious Wilhemina Agency. She was sent to Paris to meet with Dorian Lee (Suzy Parker's agent sister), where she immediately landed the cover of "L'Official," a major coup. After doing pret-a-porter and print work in Paris for one year, she returned to New York City where she made a successful living as a model. Between international assignments she continued to hone her dance skills; singing lessons soon followed with David Collier. She added drama instruction with Robert Modica, coach of Ali MacGraw . Her agency sent the sisters to read for a scene requiring twins in _Great Gatsby, The (1972)_, which they got. Modeling continued non-stop until they received the audition call from George Roy Hill for the infamous Slap Shot (1977). The role of a hockey booster club Sparkle Twin is the one with which Louise is still closely associated. The girls were then featured with Jack Weston in O'Kay, a New York stage production that brought the girls to Toronto's Old Vic, followed by a six week run at prestigious Lincon Center. The show was originally scheduled to open on Broadway, but plans were scuttled due to the city's lengthy newspaper strike. It was shortly after this time that Louise's increasing health problems were finally diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis.

Victoria O'Keefe was born on March 27, 1969 in England. Victoria attended St. Joseph's RC School, St. John Fisher RC High School, and Dewsbury College in Dewsbury, England. She joined the Dewsbury Arts Group at age eleven. O'Keefe played the title character in the children's TV mini-series "Letty" and World War II evacuee Nicole Burke on two episodes of the TV show "Nanny." Victoria gave a very strong and impressive performance in the powerful BBC docudrama "Threads" as Jane, a laconic and apathetic teenager who's forced to live a grim and thankless existence in a harsh and unforgiving world that's been ravaged by a nuclear war. O'Keefe acted in stage productions of the plays "Beauty and the Beast," "All My Sons," and "Daisy Pulls It Off" for the Dewsbury Arts Group. Her final film role was the female lead in the fifteen minute short "Positively Negative." Victoria's life was tragically cut short at age twenty-one when she was killed in an automobile accident on the M62 motorway nearby Bold, Merseyside, England on April 18, 1990.

The youngest of four, she grew up in Leeds and left school with 8 O levels and 2 A levels then drama school, She spent 15 years with her partner Ron Bertoli until the end of 1995, Now lives in South London with her son, She quit Eastenders when it was planned that her character was going to be gang raped claiming that it would be too traumatic for her son to see

Lola Forner was born on 6 June 1960 in Alicante, Spain. She is an actress, known for Armour of God (1986), No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) and In the Name of Love (2008).

Sue grew up in, and attended schools in Mount Prospect, Illinois. She attended Lions park grade school, Lincoln Junior High, and Prospect High school. After graduation from high school, she attended Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb, Illinois, where she first began exploring her interest in body building. After graduation, Sue returned to live briefly in Chicago's Northwest suburbs. Later she would move to the west coast, pursuing a bodybuilding career, marry, and find roles in the Nemesis series of sequels and other films.

Peter Tuddenham, actor, born November 27 1918; died July 9 2007.

The amiable actor Peter Tuddenham died aged 88, he was always content to remain in supporting roles; in fact, he was most recognised for his off-screen work. He provided the contrasting voices of the computers in the science-fiction series Blake's 7 (BBC, 1978-81).

Tuddenham, who was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and brought up in the seaside resort of Felixstowe, had made his professional debut before the second world war, in repertory on the pier at Hastings. In the wartime Royal Army Service Corps, he was one of many who honed their performing skills appearing with Stars in Battledress.

Demobbed after the war, he joined a production of Ivor Novello's The Dancing Years; later, in 1959, BBC productions of this and another Novello musical, Perchance to Deam, were among his early television appearances. In 1950, he appeared in Noel Coward's Ace Of Cards, but although the play was well received on tour, it had negative reviews in London's West End.

Tuddenham's small-screen debut was in The Granville Melodramas (1955), one of ITV's earliest productions, starring then husband and wife Hattie Jacques and John Le Mesurier. He took a regular role in Anglia Television's Weavers Green (1966), a short-lived, twice-weekly soap that made an early use of location videotape recording. As an expert on the Suffolk accents, he became Anglia's regular dialect coach.

Characteristically, Tuddenham was heard but not seen as the spirit of East Anglia, in Akenfield (1974), Sir Peter Hall's film adaptation of Ronald Blythe's book, which had an otherwise amateur cast. In a now commonplace move, most of the funding came from London Weekend Television in exchange for the cinema rights; unlike subsequent cinema crossovers it was first screened on television and then released theatrically. This led to good ratings but poor box office. Still, Tuddenham became the dialogue coach for Hall's 1985 production at Glyndebourne of Benjamin Britten's opera, Albert Herring, which was televised on BBC2.

After much radio work, including the soaps Mrs Dale's Diary and Waggoner's Walk, Tuddenham became an off-screen voice in the Doctor Who stories The Ark in Space and The Masque of Mandragora, in 1975 and 1976, both starring Tom Baker. He was then cast in Blake's 7, the adventures of interplanetary rebels fighting an omnipotent Federation. This was created by Terry Nation, who had previously given the world the Daleks.

Tuddenham provided the voices of the computers (eventually three of them - Zen, Orac and Slave) in the show that featured the ship which Clive James, in the Observer, described as "a tasteless light-fitting known as the Liberator". James's view that the series was "flaring nonsense from beyond the galaxy" was widespread among critics. Jokes about the sets and special effects were frequent, and even the large audiences who enjoyed the series generally viewed it as nothing more than hokum.

However, it developed a passionate and vocal cult following, and many maintain that it and Doctor Who represent the pinnacle of British television. Tuddenham reprised his roles in revivals for radio, and in audio tapes made by fans.

Not that he lacked for work in serious drama, generally playing doctors and authority figures. He was in North and South (1975), after the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, and supported Ian Holm as JM Barrie in The Lost Boys (1978), and Eileen Atkins in The Burston Rebellion (1985), about two Norfolk teachers in 1914 who were dismissed for their leftwing beliefs: their pupils went on strike. Anything More Would Be Greedy (1989), again for Anglia, a six-part critique of the 1980s by Malcolm Bradbury, gave Tuddenham the small but vital role of the returning officer at the local elections.

His lighter guest appearances included Nearest and Dearest, Only Fools and Horses, and One Foot in the Grave. He appeared regularly as the friend of academic dropout Michael Williams in the gentle comedy Double First (1988).

Tuddenham remained a genial character, and was an unfailingly popular guest at sci-fi conventions. Rosie, his second wife, and their son Julian survived him in 2007, together with a son from his first marriage. Another son had predeceased him.

David Jackson was born on 15 July 1934 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Blake's 7 (1978), Flower of Evil (1961) and The Larkins (1958). He died on 25 July 2005 in London, England, UK.

Les Dawson was born on 2 February 1931 in Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Demob (1993), The Loner (1975) and Sounds Like Les Dawson (1974). He was married to Tracy Dawson and Meg Dawson. He died on 10 June 1993 in Manchester, England, UK.

John Richard Whiteley, a staunchly proud Yorkshireman, was a much-loved television presenter and journalist, born in Bradford, West Yorkshire in 1943. He was best known for being the presenter of the long running UK Channel 4 television show Countdown (1982).

However, prior to this he was primarily a journalist, working as a reporter for Yorkshire Television, one of whose claims to fame being that he had interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan. He was also the first journalist to interview the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher after the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party conference week in 1984.

Countdown was originally scheduled to run for only five weeks when it began in 1982 as an inception show for the then brand new UK television channel Channel 4, but the show went on to run for 23 years under his presentation, averaging four million viewers per week.

Whiteley will also be remembered for his taste in clothing, every single episode wearing a different garishly coloured tie along with an equally loud, sometimes striped, jacket. Never one to appear superior to his guests he was always self-effacing and "bumbling" - a word often used to describe him by his closest friends.

In 2004 he was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, an award of which he was said to have been very proud.

In May 2005, he was rushed into intensive care suffering from pneumonia, and although he appeared to be making a slow but steady recovery, doctors found that he had an infection in one of his heart valves. He was transferred to Leeds General Infirmary and underwent an operation to correct this. The operation went well but unfortunately two days later he suffered a heart attack and did not regain consciousness.

He will be deeply and sadly missed by his family, his closest friends and his fans, an all-round truly decent man.

Masako Natsume was born on 17 November 1957 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for Onimasa (1982), Time and Tide (1983) and Gyoei no mure (1983). She was married to Shizuka Ijûin. She died on 11 September 1985 in Tokyo, Japan.

Michael Redfern was born on 30 March 1943 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Nineteenth Hole (1989), United! (1965) and Out (1978). He was married to Carol. He died on 29 July 2022 in Spain.

Michael Sharvell-Martin was born on 2 February 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Are You Being Served? (1972), Space: 1999 (1975) and Dave Allen at Large (1971). He was married to Linda Hind. He died on 28 October 2010 in Wincanton, Somerset, England, UK.

Jean Boht was born on 6 March 1932 in Bebington, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress and producer, known for Bread (1986), Z Cars (1962) and Skins (2007). She was married to Carl Davis and William P. Boht. She died on 12 September 2023 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.

Stephen Markle was born on 26 September 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Invasion U.S.A. (1985), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and JAG (1995). He was married to Deborah Dietrich and Leslie Monthan. He died on 6 November 2018 in North Hollywood, California, USA.

Gary Olsen was born on 3 November 1957 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Outland (1981), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) and The Day of the Triffids (1981). He was married to Jane Anthony and Candy Davis. He died on 12 September 2000 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Mo Moreland was born on 30 November 1936 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), The Little and Large Show (1978) and Super Gran (1985). She was married to Roy Moreland. She died on 15 December 2023 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.

George Armstrong was born on 7 September 1962 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Tucker's Luck (1983), Just William (1977) and Grange Hill (1978). He died on 11 July 2023 in England.

Tony Hart was born on 15 October 1925 in Maidstone, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The George Mitchell Choir: Around the World in Song (1962), Saturday Special (1951) and The Lenny the Lion Show (1957). He was married to Jean Hart. He died on 18 January 2009 in Shamley Green, Surrey, England, UK.