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

Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring George Graves — George Graves (1876–1949)
English comic actor, in films of the 1930s as an elderly bumbler.

Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring Clifford Evans — Clifford Evans (1912–1985)
Welsh actor with stage experience.

Main title from The Tenth Man (1936) featuring Athole Stewart — Athole Stewart (1879–1940)
British 1930s stage character actor.

German lobby card from The Wild Geese (1978) (2) — Hardy Krüger (1928–2022)
Blond German leading man who filmed internationally.

Will Fyffe (as Aeneas McGrath) in a screenshot from The Brothers (1947) (2) — Will Fyffe (1885–1947)
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) — Greta Gynt (1916–2000)
Norwegian leading lady, popular in British films of the 1940s.

Michael Denison (as Henry Brodrick) in a photograph from Hungry Hill (1947) (14) — Michael Denison (1915–1998)
British leading actor with a firm but gentle manner.

Glamorous British film star Phyllis Calvert wears a shawl as she smokes a cigarette. A 1940s studio publicity photo for Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945). — Phyllis Calvert (1915–2002)
British leading lady of the forties, former child actress; usually played good girls.

Ian Hunter (as Philip Templar) in a photograph from The White Unicorn (1947) (81) — Ian Hunter (1900–1975)
British actor of dependable characters; on stage from 1919, films soon after.

Stewart Granger, famous British film star who later made his name in Hollywood, poses for a promotional photo in the mid-1940s — Stewart Granger (1913–1993)
Darkly handsome English-born leading actor who gained fame in the romantic melodramas of the 1940s.

Screenshot from Please Turn Over (1959) (1) featuring Julia Lockwood — Julia Lockwood (1941–2019)
British leading lady, daughter of Margaret Lockwood.

British actress Patricia Roc strikes a sexy pose in a publicity shot for Jassy (1947). — Patricia Roc (1915–2003)
British leading lady of the 1940s, signed for films after brief stage experience.

British actress Jean Kent in a publicity shot for Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) — Jean Kent (1921–2013)
British leading lady of the 1940s, on stage aged ten, formerly (as Jean Carr) in the Windmill chorus.

Jean Simmons, British actress, wears a lacy top and a pearl necklace as she poses for a 1950s publicity photo — Jean Simmons (1929–2010)
Self-possessed and beautiful British leading lady who settled in Hollywood to make films that were generally unworthy of her talents.

British music hall comedian, Sid Field — Sid Field (1904–1950)
British comedian who after years in music hall became a West End star in 1943

A new picture of the talented and lovely British actress Joan Greenwood under contract to the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. — Joan Greenwood (1921–1987)
Plummy-voiced British leading lady of the 1940s.

1916–1990
d. 73

Durable, indomitable British leading lady who was an appealing ingénue of the 1930s, a star villainess in the 1940s, and, from the 1950s, a likeable character actress of stage and television

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