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British actor Derek Farr wears a jacket and tie. Picture is autographed ’To David Good luck, Derek Farr’

1912–1986
d. 74

British leading man of stage and screen, married to Muriel Pavlow; former schoolmaster

British actress Celia Johnson in a promotional picture for the film Brief Encounter (1945). Johnson pairs a smart herringbone jacket with jumper and pearls

1908–1982
d. 73

Distinguished British actress, on stage from 1928, usually in well-bred roles: films, rare.

Publicity photograph of British actor, Alastair Sim

1900–1976
d. 75

Lugubrious Scottish actor of stage and screen; his diction and gestures were inimitable

British actor André Morell in a still from the 1959 film, The Hound of the Baskervilles

1909–1978
d. 69

Dignified British character actor. Married actress Joan Greenwood

Dennis Price sports a natty moustache, cravat and white jumper, all whilst smoking a cigarette

1915–1973
d. 58

Suave English light leading man, who became an equally light character actor

British character comedian, Will Hay, wears a mortar board in his trademark schoolmaster role

1888–1949
d. 60

British character comedian, one of the screen’s greats; after many years in the music halls, starred in several incomparable farces playing variations on his favourite role of an incompetent, seedy schoolmaster

British comedy actress, Margaret Rutherford as Nurse Carey in Mad About Men (1954)

1892–1972
d. 80

Inimitable, garrulous, shapeless, endearing British comedy actress, who usually seemed to be playing somebody’s slightly dotty spinster aunt

Autographed photograph of British actor Rex Harrison from the 1948 film, Escape

1908–1990
d. 82

Debonair British leading actor of pleasant, if limited, range, on stage since 1924; films only occasionally gave him the right material

Naunton Wayne, well-known British actor who plays the role of Leslie, one of the club friends of of Henry Garnet (Basil Radford) in ‘The Facts of Life’, one of the four Somerset Maugham stories comprising ‘Quartet’, Sydney Box’s new production for Gainsborough Pictures

1901–1970
d. 69

Mild-mannered British light comedy actor, on stage from 1920, films from 1931; became well known with Basil Radford in many films as Englishmen abroad

Signed photo of British actor, Dirk Bogarde. The actor wears a jacket, jumper and tie, and sports a signet ring

1921–1999
d. 78

British leading actor of Dutch descent

Anna Neagle, British actress, in a publicity photo wears a pearl necklace and a black dress

1904–1986
d. 81

British leading lady, a former chorus dancer who, in partnership with producer and, later, her husband Herbert Wilcox, built up a formidable film gallery of historical heroines

British actor, Basil Radford, as Captain Paul Waggett in Whisky Galore! (1949)

1897–1952
d. 55

British light character comedian, on stage from 1922, films from 1929

British actor Michael Redgrave in a moustachioed publicity photograph

1908–1985
d. 77

Tall, distinguished British actor, former schoolmaster, on stage from 1934

American publicity photograph featuring British actor David Niven

1910–1983
d. 73

Debonair British leading man whose natural enthusiasm found several outlets before he accidentally ended up in Hollywood and was signed up as an extra

Promotional shot of distinguished British actor, Alec Guinness

1914–2000
d. 86

Distinguished British stage actor, who in the late 1940s started a spectacular film career first as a master of disguise, then as a young hero and later as any character from Hitler to Obi Wan Kenobi