People

Distinguished British stage actor and director, for whom cinema was a secondary matter

Leading British and international actor who became a star at home in saturnine roles during World War II

Dumpy British character comedienne, frequently seen as a maid or charlady; became a star in her later years

Red-headed British leading lady; moved into horror films and went to live in Hollywood

English leading actress of stage, screen and television

Distinguished British stage character actor, a respected industry figure who from 1950 was president of Equity, the actors’ trade union

British character actress with stage experience

Gentle-mannered British leading lady; married actor Michael Denison

English stage and film comedienne, specialising in warm-hearted tarts of the Northern or Cockney variety

Burly, capable Welsh leading man of the early 1950s. Later a useful character actor

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

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

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

Dignified British character actor. Married actress Joan Greenwood

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

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

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

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

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

British leading actor of Dutch descent