Cast: Ian Carmichael (Henry Palfrey); Terry-Thomas (Raymond Delauney); Alastair Sim (Stephen Potter); Janette Scott (April Smith); Dennis Price (Dunstan Dorchester) ...

1668. A Cockney stage actress (a former orange seller) and a French born Duchess are mistresses and rivals for the affections of King Charles II and for the hearts of the British people.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enlisted to protect Sir Henry Baskerville from the legendary Dartmoor hound that caused the death of his uncle Sir Charles.

Already past 40 when he made his professional acting debut, the stocky, often bearded Ricky Tomlinson has since become one of Britain's most popular character actors, his local fame noted by a ...

Star struck shop girl Elizabeth pretends to be a boy in order to perform on stage as a female impersonator. When she falls in love she must drop the disguise and become a woman once more.

Norman Bormann COOPER, R.R.

The opinion voiced by colleague Tony Lawson that Gerry Hambling is "probably the best English editor" of his generation is shared by a number of his peers. Hambling started as an assistant to Hugh ...

After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff. Bryan Stanley Johnson was born in 1933 in Hammersmith, ...

From a working-class East London background, Bryan Magee had a scholarship, Oxford and Yale education (he was President of the Oxford Union) before going onto a career of such breadth and achievement ...

A greengrocer's daughter, in convent school plays, followed by a professional debut at Liverpool Playhouse in 1960, Rita Tushingham became the first significant female face of the British New Wave.

The screen's loss was politics' gain when dominant actress Glenda Jackson successfully stood as Labour MP for Hampstead in 1992, and has not filmed since, giving herself whole-heartedly to her ...