Pictures

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)

James Mason’s son sits in his father’s car, a Mercedes 300 SE

Cora (Helen Mirren) in Age of Consent (1969)

Bradley Morahan (James Mason) in Age of Consent (1969)

British stage and screen actor, Ralph Richardson

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

In a 1970 episode of It’s Tommy Cooper, British actress Joan Greenwood wears something very orange and feathery! She holds a cheroot and cigarette for good measure.

Publicity photograph of British actor, Alastair Sim

Gretchen Jordache Burke (Jean Simmons) in Beggarman, Thief (1979)

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

An autographed photograph featuring British actress, Barbara Murray. Signature reads ‘To John, Barbara Murray’.

The Lonely Hearts Singer (Kay Kendall) sings out from the television set in Ealing’s Meet Mr Lucifer (1953)

British actress Kay Kendall poses for a 1950s glamour photo

Welsh actress Peggy Cummins wears a white blouse in a publicity shot

Lucy (Margaret Lockwood) puts her arms on the shoulders of Lottie Smith (Joan Greenwood) in a scene from The White Unicorn (1947)

Publicity photo featuring the elegant Anglo-Indian actress, Merle Oberon

British actress, Deborah Kerr, in a black and white publicity photograph

James Mason (as Johnny McQueen) in a photograph from Odd Man Out (1947) (1)

Iris (Margaret Lockwood) and Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) investigate the disappearance of Miss Froy on board a train in The Lady Vanishes

Miriam Hopkins (as Ann Williams) and Sebastian Shaw (as Edmund Davey) in a photograph from Men Are Not Gods (1936) (1)

Anna (Odile Versois) and Ted (David Knight) and hold hands as they jump over groynes on a beach

Distinguished British leading lady, Vivien Leigh

Marlon Brando (as Mark Antony) in a photograph from Julius Caesar (1953) (1)

British actor, Laurence Olivier, with a small moustache wears a dark suit and herringbone tie

On the eve of battle, King Henry V (Laurence Olivier) in armour parleys with Mountjoy, the French Herald

The sight of Yorick’s skull in a churchyard evokes a monologue from Prince Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) on mortality

Victoria Page (Moira Lister) dances in the Powell and Pressburger film, The Red Shoes from 1948