Una O’Connor
UNa O’CONNOR (WIKIPEDIA) Born to a Catholic nationalist family in Belfast, Ireland. Although her mother died when she was two, her father was a landowner farmer, insuring that t
Richard Todd
RICHARD TODD OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2009. Richard Todd, who has died of cancer aged 90, will be best remembered for the films in which he played a wide assortment of cle
Kenneth Haigh
KENNETH HAIGH OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2018. The actor Kenneth Haigh, who has died aged 86, was the original Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at th
Kenneth More
Quote from David Shipman in “The Great Movie Stars – The International Years” (1972): “Kenneth More was THE big British star of the 50’s. e might be claimed to be the
Dinah Sheridan
THE TIMES OBITUARY IN 2012: Dinah Sheridan played elegant, well-bred English women in many routine films before Genevieve allowed her to be funny and made her a star. With her ca
Wendy Barrie
Wendy Barrie was a British film and television actress. Barrie was born in Hong Kong to English parents. Her father was a successful lawyer and King’s Counsel, F.C. Jenkins an
Binnie Barnes
Binnie Barnes was born in Islington, North London in 1903. She began her career as a ballroom dance and then went into revue. Her first major film role was as Catherine Parr
Nancy Malone
New York Times” obituary from 2014. Nancy Malone, a child model in the 1940s who became a successful actress as an adult before moving to the other side of the camera as a televi
Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones was born in 1934 in Pennsylvania. She achieved fame early in life because of her winning the leads in two of the major cinema musicals of the mid-1950’s, “Okl