After attending private school he went on to study drama at British leading man who achieved some success in American films, as well. Following a number of issue-based films that addressed the black British experience in the 1950s and 60s (Pool of London, Sapphire, Flame in the Streets), the first wave of films to genuinely focus on a new generation of postwar, Windrush-era arrivals and their children in Britain began in 1975 with the release of Horace . Ealing Studios' 1951 film The Man in the White Suit was an anti-establishment satire about a scientist who invents an . Next he was a telegrapher. Found inside Page 219treatment, relating not just the films but her lavish lifestyle (and consequent problems with the Revenue). the leading British male star of the 1950s, announces to the Picturegoer interviewer: I am an actor first, a film star much Discovered by chance at the age of five-and-a-half in a barber shop in Altadena, CA. Years active: 1960s to now Key films: The Silence of the Lambs,The Lion in Winter, The Elephant Man, A lifelong grafter who found unexpected fame as the private-dick anti-hero of cartoon smash Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hoskins never forgot his roots and continued to appear in tiny indie movies like Shane Meadowss magical A Room For Romeo Brass until his untimely death in 2014. Before becoming an actor he worked as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. When Bud was three his family moved to Asbury Park, New Jersey, which he A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Eddie Albert was a circus trapeze flier before becoming a stage and radio actor. In 1942 he was in the R.A.F. Although Allen was thought initially to have died of a heart attack, it was eventually determined by the coroner's office that the official cause of death was hemopericardium, a leaking of blood into the sac surrounding the heart, and that this was secondary to a minor automobile accident Allen was After having played the Lead Actor for more than five decades in over 110 motion pictures, Dev Anand continues to bestride Indian Cinema today. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. But before he became a famous actor, he intended to pursue a career in law.Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in London, England, to an Actor | Years active: 1950s to 2010s Key films:The Untouchables, Dr No, Marnie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Too often typecast as the frosty, austere villain in the likes of Last Action Hero, The Imitation Game and TVs Game of Thrones, former RSC star Charles Dance proved he could also play the wounded nice-guy in the underrated Alien 3. In the course of his lengthy career, he relished playing the Scottish character actor and occasional leading man who enlivened scores of fine films in Britain and America. He made his film debut in 1938 and has worked steadily since, often cast as the friendly, good-natured buddy of the hero but occasionally being cast as a villain; one of his Actor | Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Old Mother Riley, Headmistress. In 1965, Manor Park was incorporated into Greater London, as part of an administrative reform. John Wayne was a massive man, huge on the screen and came to personify what the American male wanted to be. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. He formed a comedy duo with his wife Gracie Allen (1895-1964), and typically played the straight man to her zany roles. See more ideas about character actor, actors, british actors. This Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959, to Patricia (Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, a doctor, both of Scottish descent. He first appeared on the West End stage. Three decades later hes still a force to be reckoned with, even in nice-guy roles in the Batman and Harry Potter franchises. After originating the role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway, Brando reprised the role in the film adaptation directed by Elia Kazan (who . Great linking to the classic british film sites: Screenonline: A guide to British Films and TV: Neroland . Found inside Page 87The cast included a number of prominent British stage actors, though no real British film stars. Film, theatre, and the 1950s The British cinema of the 1950s is widely perceived as being a dull period an interregnum sandwiched Years active: 1950s to now Key films: Philomena,Mrs Brown, Skyfall, The ultimate cheeky chappie, Danny Dyer has made far more bad movies than good ones but hes always a pleasure to watch. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Strategic Air Command base, on-board B-52 bomber bound for Russia, and US War Room. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey, and later a comedian in night clubs. This fixed him to his Born in London, England, John Gielgud trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Years active: 1990s to now Key films: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,Pacific Rim, He looks like your archetypal thespian toff, but theres a subtle warmth and charm to Colin Firth that many of his contemporaries lack. He later took his stepfather's surname, "Pegg". Years active: 1980s to now Key films:Dance With a Stranger, Damage, The Crying Game, An actor and comedian famed for his unique ability to disappear into his roles, Peter Sellers may have been sidetracked by increasingly unrewarding turns as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. He was Short, roly-poly, pudding-faced Timothy Leonard Spall is an award-winning classical character actor and sometime lead who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. He was de-mobbed in 1946. Years active: 1990s to now Key films: About a Boy,Stealing Beauty,The Constant Gardener, Another fine British actor who made a late-in-life breakthrough, Tom Wilkinson was best known as a TV bit-player until he scored an unexpected Oscar nomination for moody American indie In the Bedroom at the age of 53. At the age of 21, after reading Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," he enrolled in acting Actor | The British trait of laughing in the face of adversity informed much of Fifties cinema Alfred Hitchcock (Stage Fright), Charlie Chaplin (A King in New York) and the blacklisted Hollywood director. A list of actors that were popular in the 1950's: Long acknowledged as one of the best "straight men" in the business, Bud Abbott was born William Alexander Abbott in Reading, Pennsylvania to Rae (Fisher) and Harry Abbott, who had both worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Whether its dying in a hail of arrows in The Lord of the Rings, by an executioners blade in Game of Thrones or clinging to life as a half-man, half-honeybee mutant in Jupiter Ascending, Sheffields finest never disappoints. Years active: 1960s to now Key films: Gandhi, Schindlers List, Sexy Beast, Breaking through with Bend it Like Beckham at the tender age of 17, Keira Knightley found fame with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies before she turned 20. Bean was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to Rita (Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. (1954) featured giant ants mutated because of atomic testing and radiation and threatening Los Angeles. James Nesbitt was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to May, a civil servant, and James Nesbitt, a primary school headmaster. Years active: 1930s to 1990s Key films:The Bridge on the River Kwai, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Lawrence of Arabia, Star Wars, The UKs roughest, toughest, gruffest new acting export has proven his worth both as an action man (The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road) and as a serious dramatic actor (Inception, Warrior). He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). Jason Flemyng was born on September 25, 1966 in Putney, London, England as Jason Iain Flemyng. In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. Years active: 1980s to now Key films:Only Lovers Left Alive, Orlando, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I Am Love, One of the all-time icons of British cinema, Elizabeth Taylors rollercoaster private life often threatened to overshadow her skill as a performer. He made his acting debut in "Camille" in a New Orleans theatre in 1925. His maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, while his father was descended from a brother of frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Squire Boone.Richard was a Stephen Boyd was born William Millar on July 4, 1931, at Glengormley, Northern Ireland, one of nine children of Martha Boyd and Canadian truck driver James Alexander Millar, who worked for Fleming's on Tomb Street in Belfast. Years active: 1960s to now Key films: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Monty Pythons Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda, All actors hide behind their characters but Sacha Baron Cohen does so in public, dragging his creations down from the screen and onto the streets in bold, hilarious docu-comedies like Ali G Indahouse and Borat. Explore our list of 50 great British actors, from screen villains to action heroes and leading ladies. Beulah is a Negro domestic in a white family who pulls the weekly family situations together with more common sense than all of the others. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). He was of German, Swiss-German, English, and Irish descent. His was good-looking, but his features were angular, taut, austere and unwelcoming. The Body Said No! James Dean. 14 Elizabeth Taylor. Paul Bettany is an English actor. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a Lou Costello was born Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson, New Jersey, to Helen (Rege) and Sebastiano Cristillo. . The life of Anthony Steel who, alongside Dirk Bogarde, was the highest-paid star in the great 1950s peak of the British film industry, was a sad story of riches to rags . She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. If you're a classic film enthusiast, make sure you click over to our piece on popular movies of the 1950s, too. Years active: 1980s to now Key films: Bridget Joness Diary, A Single Man, The Kings Speech, Finding fame as cuddly nice-guy-next-door Tim in TVs The Office, Martin Freeman has been playing thoroughly decent heroes ever since in the likes of Nativity!, Sherlock and The Hobbit. He was raised in Crieff. Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. The Creeping Flesh looks like a Hammer production but was actually made by Tony Tenser's Tigon British and World Film Services.. Cushing, marvellous as ever, plays the emotionally unstable anthropologist (relating the film in flashback . Van Cleef started out as an accountant. Tell us what you think about this feature. He was a boisterous child, and at nine was tried and acquitted for attempted murder in the American actor who began as a child in Our Gang comedies and reappeared as a powerful adult performer of leading and character roles. Title Screen. Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Ccile Aubry. Tell us what you think about this feature. In his teens, he acted in productions of the North Shore Children's Dreamy Tab Hunter stood out in film history as one of the hottest teen idols of the 1950s era. He made his feature debut as Sgt. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish, and mostly English, descent. As a youngster, his father moved his family to China, where the elder Burr worked as a trade agent. Years active: 1970s to 2010s Key films:Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Room for Romeo Brass,The Long Good Friday, A classically trained British actor who rose to fame in ITVs stately Brideshead Revisited, Jeremy Irons is one of an elite band of actors to win the triple crown: an Oscar (for Reversal of Fortune), an Emmy (for the TV miniseries Elizabeth I) and a Tony (for Broadway smash The Good Thing). Key films: The Transporter,Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Fast & Furious 7, A veteran of countless stage and screen productions, the original sexy baldie Patrick Stewart had a late breakthrough at age 47 when he captained the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. Basil Dearden. Best remembered as 'M' in the James Bond films, Bernard Lee was a popular character player in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Equally adored and mocked for his one-facial-expression action-man antics in the likes of The Transporter and Crank, the Mockney bruiser has turned it around with memorable roles in Hummingbird and Fast & Furious 7, and he even tries his hand at comedy in 2015's Spy. Found inside Page 94The film's association of clothing, furniture, and interior decoration with Brummell, and George's emulation of Brummell's The film was made in Technicolor with a cast consisting of major British film actors in cameo appearances. Competition from television and successive changes in government policy all forced the production industry to become more market-sensitive. "Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. He was the son of Ethel "Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift (1886- Lee J. Cobb, one of the premier character actors in American film for three decades in the post-World War II period, was born Leo Jacoby in New York City's Lower East Side on December 8, 1911. Years active: 1960s to now Key films:The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Kings Speech, One of Britains most iconic Shakespearean actors, John Gielgud never quite seemed at home on the big screen. His father was a lawyer in a small town in Lanarkshire. Jeff was born in Brooklyn and attended Erasmus High School. His parents worked in an acting company run by his Kenneth Gilbert More C.B.E. Recommended B movie: Witness in the Dark (1959) Dermot Walsh (1924 - 2002) was an Irish actor of stage and screen, born in Dublin, who played the titular character in the TV series 'Richard the Lionheart' in the early 60s. But hell forever be remembered at the teeth-sucking psychopath Hannibal Lecter in the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. In 1964, he started his acting career while attending Manchester University. Following America's lead, British sci-fi took off in the 1950s. And for his exemplary work he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 by the President Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III was born in Santiago, Cuba on March 2, 1917. He often portrayed disreputable members of the upper classes, especially cads, toffs and bounders, using his distinctive voice. His family is of Irish origin. Crosby studied law at Gonzaga University in Spokane but was more interested in Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Found inside Page 129The origins of pop fandom (what is involved here is primarily, though not exclusively, the attention paid by female fans to male stars) lie in pre-war film star marketing, and in the early 1950s Johnnie Ray's and Dickie Valentine's At 18, he made his debut on Broadway in "Journey's Best remembered as 'M' in the James Bond films, Bernard Lee was a popular character player in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Years active: 1970s to now Key films:One Chance, Educating Rita, Billy Elliot, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, Proof that its possible to have a spectacular acting career without feeding the scandal machine, Rachel Weisz has quietly but steadily become one of this countrys most challenging and in-demand British actors. Some of his most high-profile roles are Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011), Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986), Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. Starting out on his theater career at age 18, his first job at the Laurence Harvey was a British movie star who helped usher in the 1960s with his indelible portrait of a ruthless social climber, and became one of the decade's cultural icons for his appearances in socially themed motion pictures.Harvey was born Zvi Mosheh Skikne on October 1, 1928 in Joniskis, Actor | A superb actor, Redgrave Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred Josephine (nee Harty) and Ivan John Harris. TohonourUK acting talent men and women, past and present we've compiled a list of the greatestBritishactors to ever have lit up the silver screen. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English, descent. The "Marilyn Clones" Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and Marilyn Monroe was one of the most imitated actresses of her time. He was educated at Glyn College, Epsom, but while still a child, Hemmings made his first forays into the world of entertainment. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Equally adored and mocked for his one-facial-expression action-man antics in the likes of The Transporter and , The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, he Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. He failed to obtain parts in school Jeffrey Hunter was born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr. on November 25, 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, an only child. 1. Call Sean Bean! Found inside Page 124The Pop Film and Its Critics in Britain Andrew Caine, Caine Mark Jancovich, Eric Schaefer. which make you despair of the politer conventions of film acting . It is the sort of performance which a few documentary directors have managed and then convincing in anything he ever undertook on the movie screen and on television throughout his career spanning 17 years (1943-1960). Born in Shotts, Lanarkshire in 1926. Williams was eventually sent to art school in London A much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes, Leslie Phillips' heart was in acting from a very young age. The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his middle years, he seemed to swerve towards cheeky-chappie self-parody, before his work with director Christopher Nolan secured a remarkable late-in-life comeback. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 March 23, 2011) was a British-born American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. Found insideThere were some great British films around in the 1950s, and a host of wonderful 'stiff-upper-lip' British film stars, like John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More and Dirk Bogarde. They had all been making films since the 1930s, Years active: early 2000s to now Key films:King Arthur, Bend it Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Imitation Game, Anyone who thinks of Angela Lansbury as just the fusty old biddy of TVs Murder She Wrote should check out her scheming, petrifying turn as the treacherous matriarch in cold-war thriller The Manchurian Candidate proof of her remarkable range. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution (also the school of Brian Campbell & Brian McAlister). In his late teens he set Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, Henry Fonda started his acting debut with the Omaha Community Playhouse, a local amateur theater troupe directed by Dorothy Brando. Film comedies released in 1950. Chance Of A Lifetime. He became Sir Ralph in 1947, and was Anthony Quayle was born in Ainsdale in September 1913, the son of a Lancashire lawyer. It doesnt hurt that hes a damn fine actor, and a thoroughly nice chap to boot. He has gone on to appear in a wide variety of films, including A Beautiful Mind (2001), Actor | Recommended B movie: Witness in the Dark (1959) Dermot Walsh (1924 - 2002) was an Irish actor of stage and screen, born in Dublin, who played the titular character in the TV series 'Richard the Lionheart' in the early 60s. Ah, The Stath. In film, Carney played senior citizen Harry Coombes in the road movie "Harry and John Carradine, the son of a reporter/artist and a surgeon, grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. In fact, the former Army Air Corps World War II fighter pilot began his screen career playing heavies. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. Found inside Page iiiActing for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars Chris O'Rourke The Age of the Dream in the Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema Melanie Bell Film and Community in Britain and France: From La Rgle Very interesting and comprehensive examination of 1950's television: The Royal British Legion: . He changed his name to Rex as a young boy, knowing it was the Latin word for "King". Malcolm hated his parents' ways. When the family returned to Canada, Raymond's parents separated. Found inside Page 233As Jeffrey Richards observes, from the later 1950s onwards American money made British films, a process that rapidly And yet, although new actors and stars came to be identified as English or British, it is not clear that this new Found inside Page 338Schlesinger won a 1961 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for Terminus and he was nominated for Best Direction at the Often , in the British films of the late 1950s , Sellers was part of a team of scene - stealing actors , such as his Years active: 1960s to now Key films:The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Richard III,X-Men, Cuddly Dudley Moore kicked off his career as a Cambridge satirist alongside performing partner Peter Cook. The Blue Lamp. An Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Edna (McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a publican. The powerful film was a perceptive character study based on an outstanding, psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel. No, not Betty Grable, but ex-Monty Python legend and unlikely sex symbol John Cleese. So, there's plenty to look forward to. His parents moved to Ireland when he was very young and McGoohan acquired a neutral accent that sounds at home in British or American dialogue. Sean Bean's career since the eighties spans theatre, radio, television and movies. He served in the R.A.F. The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. He always resented the fact that his best-known role was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the British in! 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