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	Birth : 15 January 1853, London, England, UK Death : 20 January 1939, Hollywood, California, USA (pneumonia) Height: 178
Filmography: The Best Man Wins The Best Man Wins Maud Muller

Married to actress Josephine Ditt (Mrs. Tom Ricketts), Ricketts directed the first motion picture in Hollywood. Starting in the honkytonks of London, he became of the best Shakespearean actors of his day. Ricketts worked up to a few days before his death.

	Birth : 21 July 1863, London, England, UK Death : 20 December 1948, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (pneumonia) Birth Name: Charles Aubrey Smith Height: 188
Filmography: Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 11 Himself The Builder of Bridges Edward Thursfield John Glayde's Honor John Glayde

Movie roles are sometimes based upon what the audience expects to see. If the role called for the tall stereotypical Englishmen with the stiff upper lip and stern determination, that man would be C. Aubrey Smith, graduate of Cambridge University,a leading freemason and a test cricketer for England. Smith was 30 by the time he embarked upon a career on the stage.

	Birth : 17 June 1920, Hereford, England, UK Death : 13 October 1996, London, England, UK (pneumonia) Height: 160
Filmography: "Bold as Brass" Bessie Briggs "Wit and Wisdom" "Wogan"

Beryl Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in industrial Manchester, England. She left home at the age of 16 to go and work in a shop. She lasted 6 weeks. She applied for and was accepted in a revue in the Summer season in Bridlington. She had no formal training but joined the National Theater in London as a comedy actress.

	Birth : 14 May 1934, Bettws, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK Birth Name: Jane Elizabeth Ailwen Phillips Height: 171
Filmography: The 50 Greatest Television Dramas Herself "Network First: Victoria and Albert" Narrator The Guernica Children Narrator

Born in Wales in 1934, veteran stage actress Sian Phillips is forever identified on TV as the tarantula mommy/empress Livia in the classic BBC series "I, Claudius" and in the movie Dune (1985) as the Reverend Mother. Her broad range of roles went from endearing to downright deadly. Sian was brought up bilingual in both English and Welsh and performed on the Welsh radio station at age 11.

	Birth : 31 January 1912, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK Death : 12 October 1993, London, England, UK Birth Name: Patrick G. Parsons
Filmography: Frieda Alan Dawson The Mark of Cain John Howard The October Man Harry Carden

Patrick Holt's real name was Patrick G. Parsons. Some of his childhood was spent in India where his father, who claimed kinship with the great actress Mrs. Siddons, was Deputy Inspector-General of the Indian Police. Perhaps surprisingly, given such a background, Patrick was sent to Christ's Hospital, a famous charity school in England, UK.

	Birth : 12 September 1927, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK Height: 185
Filmography: Brecht and Co Member of Brecht's company / Azdak "Emmerdale Farm" Sandy Thomas "Emmerdale Farm" Sandy Thomas

The British character actor Freddie Jones came to the acting profession after 10 years of working as a laboratory assistant and acting in amateur theater on the side. To kick off his mid-life career change, Jones attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent, England, on scholarship.