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British character actor, often of supercilious types or self-satisfied businessmen; on stage from 1922, screen from 1934

Gaunt, tall English actor whose personality lent itself best to sinister or horrific parts

Veteran Scottish actor with stage and music-hall experience

English character actor of stage and screen, frequently in comic cockney roles

Hearty-type British light character actor, in films as amiable idiot or cheerful Lothario from the early 30s after a Stock Exchange career

British director, producer and screenwriter, also a playwright, novelist and publisher; married to Sydney Box

British stage and screen actress, adept at sympathetic spinsters and eccentric types

British light comedian, former child actor from 1935

Distinguished Austrian actor who came to Britain in the mid-30s

Vivacious English singing and dancing star of light musicals in the 30s, on stage from 1917

Lively British small-part actor who became a useful scriptwriter, director and production executive. Married actress Nanette Newman

British actor, fondly remembered as the impertinent fat boy of the Will Hay comedies

British leading man of silents who became a character comedian specialising in hoary rustics, chiefly beloved as the ancient but resilient old Harbottle of the Will Hay comedies

Czech actor whose personality adapted itself equally well to villainy or kindliness; in Britain from 1939

Portly British character actor (and playwright), on stage from 1929, films from 1938

Leading British stage actress, wife of Laurence Olivier

British leading man, on stage from mid-1930s. Knighted in 1997

British leading lady, usually in upper-class roles

English leading man, a likeable and dependable star of British comedies and action dramas in the 1950s

British comedy actress with a long stage career dating from 1908