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Jerry Springer was born on 13 February 1944 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Domino (2005), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Ringmaster (1998). He was married to Margaret 'Micki' JoAnn Velten. He died on 27 April 2023 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.- Music Artist
- Actor
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Rod Stewart was born on 10 January 1945 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He is a music artist and actor, known for Innerspace (1987), The Three Musketeers (1993) and No Way Out (1987). He has been married to Penny Lancaster since 16 June 2007. They have two children. He was previously married to Rachel Hunter and Alana Stewart.- Blake trained at the Arts Educational School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is the granddaughter of the actress Annette Mills and a grand-niece of the actor Sir John Mills. Actresses Hayley and Juliet Mills are Blake's first cousins once-removed.
Blake has appeared regularly in television programmes written by and starring Victoria Wood during the 1980s and 1990s; most notably as the continuity announcer in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985) in the mid 80s, introducing the spoof soap Acorn Antiques (1987).
She also has extensive radio credits.
She appeared in the first episode of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave in 1990; her character was responsible for firing Victor Meldrew, and thus set the events of the show into motion.
She appeared as a witch in the pantomime Wizard of Oz at "The Lowry Theatre and Gallery" in Salford in 2004.
She appeared as Bev Unwin in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street until her departure in December 2006.
Blake played the character of Madame Morrible in the West End production of Wicked. She began her run on 2 April 2007, replacing Miriam Margolyes. Blake played her final performance on 12 April 2008 and was replaced by Harriet Thorpe.
In late 2008 to early 2009, she starred in the national UK tour of Boeing Boeing and appeared as Judith in one episode of Wild at Heart's third series. She was also in a national tour of Grumpy Old Women 2 in 2009 with Jenny Eclair and Wendi Peters.
Blake appeared as Hilary Nicholson in the RTÉ and BBC comedy Mrs. Brown's Boys (2011), replacing Sorcha Cusack, who played Hilary in Series 1. She is currently (autumn 2015) playing The Queen in a theatre tour of the West End hit Handbagged.
Blake briefly reprised her Coronation Street role of Bev Unwin in July 2015 to help the long-running character Deirdre Barlow, who was played by the late Anne Kirkbride, bow out of the soap due to Kirkbride's death in January 2015. - Actress
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Susan Tully was born on 20 October 1967 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for EastEnders (1985), Up 'n' Under (1998) and Stella (2012).- Director
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Rupert Goold was born in 1972 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Judy (2019), True Story (2015) and The Hollow Crown (2012). He has been married to Kate Fleetwood since 2001. They have two children.- Actor
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Urbane, debonair British character actor, a former insurance policy draughtsman. He trained for acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and made his stage debut in 1938. After serving for six years in the Royal Artillery, he appeared in films from 1948, latterly coming to note under the direction of Stanley Kubrick. Sharp had a penchant for aristocratic types or professional authority figures, but could also relied upon to be an effective straight man in British sitcoms.
Dennis Anthony John Sharp (16 June 1915 - 23 July 1984) was an English actor, writer and director.
Anthony Sharp was a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and made his stage debut in February 1938 with HV Neilson's Shakespearean touring company, playing the Sergeant in Macbeth at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. Repertory engagements in Wigan, Hastings, Peterborough and Liverpool were followed by war service, after which he resumed his stage career at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate in September 1946, playing Hansell in Tangent.
He first appeared in the West End in Family Portrait at the Strand Theatre in February 1948. Among his many subsequent appearances were Cry Liberty (Vaudeville Theatre 1950), Who Goes There! (Vaudeville Theatre 1951), For Better, For Worse (Comedy Theatre 1952), Small Hotel (St Martin's Theatre 1955), No Time for Sergeants (Her Majesty's Theatre 1956), The Edwardians (Saville Theatre 1959), She's Done It Again (Garrick Theatre 1969), The Avengers (Prince of Wales Theatre 1971) and Number One (Queen's Theatre 1984).
Other London credits included The Rivals (Sadler's Wells 1972), She Stoops to Conquer (Lyric Hammersmith 1982) and several appearances at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park. There he played Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing in 1958 and Malvolio in Twelfth Night the following year, rejoining the company in 1978 for such plays as The Man of Destiny.
Sharp was also a playwright. His stage version of the Thomas Love Peacock novel Nightmare Abbey was a big hit at the Westminster Theatre in 1952, opening there on 27 February. "Anthony Sharp's altogether delightful adaptation provided one of the most unusual as well as most amusing offerings of the season," commented Theatre World editor Frances Stephens. After a try-out in Sheffield, the historical drama The Conscience of the King was remounted at the Theatre Royal Windsor, starting on 14 March 1955; Sharp himself played 17th century parliamentarian John Hampden. A third play, Tale of a Summer's Day, was written in 1959.
In addition Sharp was a prolific director, particularly of comedy-thrillers and 'boardroom' dramas. His credits included Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Wolf's Clothing (Strand Theatre 1959), Billy Bunter Flies East (Victoria Palace 1959), The Gazebo (Savoy Theatre 1960), Guilty Party (St Martin's Theatre 1961), Critic's Choice (Vaudeville Theatre 1961), Act of Violence (1962 UK tour), Devil May Care (Strand Theatre 1963), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), Hostile Witness (Haymarket Theatre 1964), Wait Until Dark (Strand Theatre 1966), Justice is a Woman (Vaudeville Theatre 1966) and Harvey (1970 UK tour). He also directed several productions in Hong Kong and Australia.
On screen Sharp was frequently cast as supercilious professional or aristocratic types, notably in the Stanley Kubrick films A Clockwork Orange (as Minister of the Interior) and Barry Lyndon (as Lord Hallam). Other film credits include Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass, two for Michael Winner (The Jokers and I'll Never Forget What's'isname), Russ Meyer's Black Snake and the Disney film One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. His only starring role in a feature film was the homicidal priest Father Xavier Meldrum in Pete Walker's 1975 horror picture House of Mortal Sin. n 1977 he had a leading role in the children's television series The Flockton Flyer. Other TV dramas in which he appeared included The Plane Makers, Doomwatch, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Crown Court, Upstairs, Downstairs, Schalcken the Painter and The Life and Times of David Lloyd George. He also played numerous cameo parts in sitcoms, notably Dad's Army (1969, 1977), Steptoe and Son (three episodes, 1970-74), Nearest and Dearest (1973), Man About the House (1975), Rising Damp (1975), George & Mildred (1976, 1978) and To the Manor Born (eight episodes, 1979-81). He worked frequently with such TV comedians as Benny Hill, Morecambe and Wise, Frankie Howerd and Bernie Winters, and towards the end of his life appeared in the early 1980s alternative comedy programmes The Young Ones and The Comic Strip.
His final feature film, in which he played foreign secretary Lord Ambrose, was the James Bond picture Never Say Never Again, released in 1983.
On radio, in 1981, he appeared as the town clerk of the fictional Frambourne Town Council in the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile, the radio sequel to Dad's Army; it was in that episode that Arthur Lowe reprised his role of Captain Mainwaring for the very last time several months before his death. In 1982-84, he was a regular as Major Dyrenforth on the Radio 2 series The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket, his last few episodes being broadcast posthumously.
He was born Dennis Anthony John Sharp in Highgate in 1915 and was an insurance policy draughtsman before training as an actor. From 1940-46 he served with the Royal Corps of Signals and the Royal Artillery in North Africa, Italy and Austria. "Once the war was over," he recalled, "I wangled a transfer to the Army Broadcasting Service and helped run radio stations at Naples and Rome. These were very full and very pleasant days - announcing, script-writing, disc-jockeying, organising programmes, producing, acting.
He married the actress Margaret Wedlake in July 1953 and a son, Jonathan, was born in 1954. In Who's Who in the Theatre he listed his favourite part as Malvolio and his recreations as church architecture and watching cricket.
He died of natural causes aged 69 in his native London; at the time of his death he was playing the Doctor in the West End production of Jean Anouilh's Number One at the Queen's Theatre.- Music Artist
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Kamaal Khan was born on 12 March 1972 in Highgate, London, United Kingdom. He is a music artist and actor, known for Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998), Radhe (2021) and Race 3 (2018).- Alexandra Staden was born on 21 August 1979 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure (2004), Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) and Vanity Fair (2004). She has been married to Diarmid Hugh Mackenzie since October 2006.
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Paddy Russell attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and started her career as an actress. She left acting to become a stage manager because it paid more money. She progressed from being director Rudolph Cartier's floor manager to becoming a director herself, becoming one of the first two women directors in BBC television. She finished her career having spent 40 successful years in television.- Actor, narrator (audible.com), Richard Lyntton was born (Richard Bramford) in Whittington Hospital, Highgate, London. He is of English descent. Lyntton was brought up in Primrose Hill, North London. He attended William Ellis Grammar School and Exeter University. Richard served as a Captain and tank commander in the British Army in Gulf War 1, Bosnia and Russia. He graduated from Mountview Theater School (Mountview Academy of Theater Arts) in 1998. Lyntton's theatre appearances include A Midsummer NIght's Dream (1998), Techno-Frantic Love (1999), Men Without Shadows (2000), Inherit the Wind (1999), Bless the Bride (1999), Indian Ink (2002). Film & Television roles began in 1997, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Knock (1999), Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life (1999), and in USA 2002, My Father's Gun, Law & Order: SVU (2004 & 2011), The Answer Man (2009), One Life to Live (2010), Blue Bloods (2011), Royal Pains (2011), Creed (2015), Career Opportunities in Organized Crime (2016), The Blacklist: Redemption (2017), Mr. Robot (2017), Redcoats (2017), The Break With Michelle Wolf (2018), Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2019), The Plot Against America (2020), The Equalizer (2021), WeCrashed (2022), and numerous shorts and Independent Features.
- Jane Barrett was born on 7 May 1922 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), Eureka Stockade (1949) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). She was married to Hans Heinrich Helweg and Derek Glynne. She died on 20 July 1969 in Torbay, Devon, England, UK.
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- Music Department
Steven Severin was born on 25 September 1955 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He is a composer. He has been married to Arban Ornelas since 2 October 2002. They have one child. He was previously married to Millie Kendall.- Vivian Gaye was born on 13 December 1907 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Frog (1937) and Gone to the Dogs (1928). She was married to Ernst Lubitsch. She died on 18 July 2010 in Southampton, New York, USA.
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- Director
- Additional Crew
Peter Ashmore was one of Britain's foremost theatre directors from 1947 when he directed his first big London West End hit, "Edward, My Son", through to 1961 when he directed his last play, the unsuccessful "Mr Rhodes." He worked continuously throughout this period, directing plays in London's West End. He also directed several plays in New York, including "Legend of Lovers" (1951) with Richard Burton and Dorothy McGuire and "The Master of Thornfield with Errol Flynn (1958).- Actor
- Producer
Leslie Linder was born on 31 August 1924 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954), See No Evil (1971) and 10 Rillington Place (1971). He was married to Dorothy Alison. He died on 16 January 2010 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Ernest Hare was born on 5 December 1900 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A for Andromeda (1961), Producers' Showcase (1954) and Murder Bag (1957). He died on 15 September 1981 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
John Salmon was born on 18 January 1931 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Only When I Larf (1968), The Best Sherry in the World (1967) and The Dick Emery Show (1963). He died on 7 April 2017 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.- Sheila Minto was born on 18 September 1908 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She died on 19 October 1994 in London, England, UK.
- The impeccably-spoken Sylvia Peters, a lady synonymous with 1950s television in Britain, was born in Highgate, London, on 26th September, 1925, to an Italian clock-maker Romelo Petronzo, and his English wife Ethel, who arranged for the young Sylvia to have ballet lessons. Trained as an actress she joined the BBC in 1947 and in 1953 was one of the principal announcers for Elizabeth ll's coronation, later assisting the queen with her Christmas broadcasts. Whilst working at the BBC she met her husband Kenneth Milne-Buckley and, in addition to working as a continuity announcer, she also presented shows such as 'Come Dancing' and 'Jim's In' as well as the occasional acting role, particularly in BBC TV pantomimes. In 1963 she opened a clothes shop in Wimbledon, aimed at the youth market, and its success led to her retiring from television in the late 1960s to concentrate on its running. She died on July 26th 2016, leaving a daughter and two step-children.
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Joel Lightman was born in 1980 in Highgate, London, England, UK. Joel is a composer, known for A Dying Breed (2008), Me and My Garden (2006) and End of an Era (2006).- Warren Austin was born on 12 November 1877 in Highgate Center, Vermont, USA. He died on 25 December 1962 in Burlington, Vermont, USA.
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Beryl Grey was born on 11 June 1927 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Producers' Showcase (1954), This Is the BBC (1959) and Chelsea at Nine (1957). She was married to Sven Svensson. She died on 10 December 2022 in England, UK.- Gron Davies was born on 15 February 1921 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Gilbert and Sullivan (1953). He died in October 2001 in Dyfed, Wales, UK.
- Vincent Sternroyd was born on 8 October 1857 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Leah Kleschna (1913), The Prisoner of Corbal (1936) and The Howard Case (1936). He was married to Beatrice Mary Cowlrick. He died on 3 November 1948 in Hendon, London, England, UK.
- Hugh Montgomery was born on 18 November 1938 in Highgate, London, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Da Vinci Code Exposed: What They Don't Want You to Know (2011), Ancient Code: Are You Ready for the Real 2012? (2009) and God Kings: The Descendents of Jesus Traced Through the Odonic and Davidic Dynasties (2009). He is married to Hermione. He was previously married to Edith Elizabeth Schubert-Klein.