Derren Nesbitt
Derren Nesbitt was born in 1935 in London. Rather intriguing British actor who first appeared on UK cinema & TV screens in the late 1950s, and quickly found steady work as a ra
Dandy Nichols
Born Daisy Sander in Fulham, London in 1907, she started her working life as a secretary in a London factory. Twelve years later, after drama, diction and fencing classes, she
T.P. McKenna
Dictionary of irish biography McKenna, Thomas Patrick (‘T. P.’) (1929–2011), actor, was born on 7 September 1929 in Mullagh, Co. Cavan, the eldest of ten children of
Peggy Dell
Dictionary of Irish Biography Tisdall, Margaret (Dell, Peggy) (1906–79), pianist and bandleader, was born 8 January 1906 in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, daughter of William Tisd
Lana Turner
Lana Turner had an acting ability that belied the “Sweater Girl” image MGM thrust upon her, and even many of her directors admitted that they knew she was capable of gr
Dolores Gray
Guardian obituary in 2002. If one were to compile a list of entertainers who cheered up Britain in the austere years after the second world war, the American singer and actor Dolor
Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Dictionary of Irish biography Fitzgerald, Geraldine Mary Wilma (1913–2005), actress and stage director, was born 24 November 1913 at 85 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, one of two da
Niall MacGinnis
Dictionary of Irish biography MacGinnis, (Patrick) Niall (1913–77), actor and medical doctor, was born 29 March 1913 at 25 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, the eldest of two sons o