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Actors, actresses, directors and producers of stage, screen, radio and television. Page eight of nine

British actor Jack Hawkins wears a jacket and tie
  • 1910–1973
  • d. 62
Jack Hawkins
Dominant British actor; after long apprenticeship became an international star in middle age, but in 1966 lost his voice after an operation
Grimshaw (Mervyn Johns) wears a hat and bow tie in My Learned Friend (1943)
  • 1899–1992
  • d. 93
Mervyn Johns
Welsh character actor, on stage from 1923; usually played mild-mannered roles
Autographed photo from 1943 featuring Meriel Forbes
  • 1913–2000
  • d. 86
Meriel Forbes
British stage actress, wife of Sir Ralph Richardson
Main title from Train of Events (1949) featuring Valerie Hobson
  • 1917–1998
  • d. 81
Valerie Hobson
British leading actress in dignified and disciplined ladylike roles
Main title from Train of Events (1949) featuring Jack Warner
  • 1895–1981
  • d. 85
Jack Warner
Genial British character actor, former music-hall comedian; TV’s ‘Dixon of Dock Green’
Main title from Train of Events (1949) featuring John Clements
  • 1910–1988
  • d. 77
John Clements
Distinguished British actor-manager. Born in London, he was on stage from 1930
Main title from Train of Events (1949) featuring Susan Shaw
  • 1929–1978
  • d. 49
Susan Shaw
British leading lady groomed by the Rank ‘charm school’, whose career was hampered by alcoholism
Main title from Train of Events (1949) featuring Irina Baronova
  • 1919–2008
  • d. 89
Irina Baronova
Born in Russia, one of the famed ‘baby ballerinas’. Married Laurence Olivier’s theatrical agent, Cecil Tennant
Margaret Leighton, British actress, pictured in 1948
  • 1922–1976
  • d. 53
Margaret Leighton
Elegant English leading actress, mainly in the theatre
British actor Trevor Howard smokes a cigarette. Howard is dressed in a herringbone jacket and tie
  • 1913–1988
  • d. 74
Trevor Howard
Distinguished English leading man, on stage from 1934
Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring Iris Hoey
  • 1885–1979
  • d. 93
Iris Hoey
English actress, in occasional films
Signed photograph of British actress, Linden Travers (1)
  • 1913–2001
  • d. 88
Linden Travers
British leading actress of stage (from 1931), screen shortly after
Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring John Lodge
  • 1903–1985
  • d. 82
John Lodge
American leading man of the 1930s, mainly European films
Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring George Graves
  • 1876–1949
  • d. 73
George Graves
English comic actor, in films of the 1930s as an elderly bumbler
Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring Clifford Evans
  • 1912–1985
  • d. 73
Clifford Evans
Welsh actor with stage experience
Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring Athole Stewart
  • 1879–1940
  • d. 61
Athole Stewart
British 1930s stage character actor
German lobby card from The Wild Geese (1978) (2)
  • 1928–2022
  • d. 93
Hardy Krüger
Blond German leading man who filmed internationally
Will Fyffe (as Aeneas McGrath) in a screenshot from The Brothers (1947) (2)
  • 1885–1947
  • d. 62
Will Fyffe
Pawky Scots comedian, famous in the halls for his song ‘I Belong to Glasgow’
Greta Gynt (as Elsie Silver) in a screenshot from Mr. Emmanuel (1944) (4)
  • 1916–2000
  • d. 83
Greta Gynt
Norwegian leading lady, popular in British films of the 1940s
Michael Denison (as Henry Brodrick) in a photograph from Hungry Hill (1947) (14)
  • 1915–1998
  • d. 82
Michael Denison
British leading actor with a firm but gentle manner

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