Pictures

Georgette Constantin (Peggy Cummins) waves a hand behind the wheel of her car in the 1950 film, My Daughter Joy

Max (Dirk Bogarde) in Nazi uniform tends to Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) in a scene from the 1974 film, The Night Porter

A bandaged Francis Templar (Hugh McDermott) sits up in bed and talks to his wife Lucienne (Kathleen Byron)

Author Elaine Parker discusses with Tony Flood the release of The Price of Fame, her new biography of Dennis Price, at the Underground Theatre, Eastbourne on 12th May, 2018

British actress, Elizabeth Taylor

British actor, Richard Burton

British director Lewis Gilbert wears a checked shirt on set

Police Constable Wells (Terry Scott) discovers a crime in the 1964 film, Murder Most Foul

Behind the scenes photo from the 1980 film, The Sea Wolves, featuring Trevor Howard, David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore. The actors are sitting in each other’s named chairs

Billy Universe (Billy Fury) in a scene from the 1962 film, Play it Cool

Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) brandishes a pair of pistols in a scene from the 1950 film, Gun Crazy

Publicity photograph from the 1930s featuring British actor, Robert Donat

Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) talks to Barbara ‘Babs’ Edge (Christine Norden) as she drinks tea in Mine Own Executioner (1947)

Storm Riordan (Sally Gray) holds a gun to Dr Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) in a scene from Independent Sovereign Films’ 1949 film, Obsession

Fay Lowther (Elizabeth Sellars) at her dressing table is watched by Supt Bob Lowther (John McCallum) in a scene from The Long Memory (1953)

Vivien Warren (Greta Gynt) in a scene from Gainsborough Pictures’ Dear Murderer (1947)

On the run from the police, Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) handcuffs himself to Pamela (Madeleine Carroll). A scene from Gaumont’s 1935 film The 39 Steps

Superintendent Folland (André Morell) in a scene from the Boulting brothers’ 1950 film, Seven Days to Noon

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

Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Teri Mortimer (Anne Crawford) in Walter Forde’s The Peterville Diamond (1943)

Von Kellerman, alias Keramikos (Herbert Lom) holds a gun in a still from Gainsborough’s Snowbound (1948)

Publicity photograph featuring Ann Todd, English actress. Todd is wearing an ornate embroidered shawl.

British actor Nigel Patrick, dressed in jacket and tie, smokes a cigarette

British actress, Dinah Sheridan, poses for a fashion shoot

Paramount Pictures publicity photo from 1948, featuring British actor Ray Milland

British actor, John Gielgud, a GB star

Publicity photo of British actor Dirk Bogarde, used by BBC Radio 3 to advertise its drama about the making of the film, ‘Victim’

British comedy actor, Tommy Trinder

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

British actress, Virginia McKenna, wears a crucifix pendant

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

British stage and screen actor, Ralph Richardson

British director Carol Reed, perhaps best known for his work on The Third Man (1949)

Publicity photograph of British actor, Alastair Sim

Publicity photo of British film actress, Dora Bryan

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

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

Publicity photo of British actress Googie Withers

British actor Kenneth More wears an open-necked checked shirt and watch in a casual publicity photo

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

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

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

British actor Michael Redgrave in a moustachioed publicity photograph

British actor David Niven, dressed in a dinner jacket an bow tie, raises a champagne coupé in a toast

American publicity photograph featuring British actor David Niven

Promotional shot of distinguished British actor, Alec Guinness

Handsome British film star Anthony Steel, as he appears in the role of Mark Loring, in the new Raymond Stross production, A Question of Adultery (1958), and in which he co-stars with Julie London. The film was directed by Don Chaffey and will be released by Eros Films Ltd.

British broadcaster and actor, Desmond Carrington, smiles contentedly as he leaves ATV’s studios at Borehamwood. In the Emergency – Ward 10 series Carrington played Dr Chris Anderson.

Classical British actor, Alec Clunes, in a photograph by Welsh photographer Angus McBean