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Gail Thackray was born on 16 December 1964 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Hard to Die (1990), Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995) and The Curse of the Komodo (2004).

Robert Palmer was born on 19 January 1949 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor and composer, known for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), True Romance (1993) and Lost in Space (1998). He was married to Shelly Putnam and Susan Eileen Thatcher. He died on 26 September 2003 in Paris, France.

Tracy has just enjoyed a great run playing feisty Carole in Emmerdale and spent most of last year playing Linda, Annie and Sharon in The Full Monty (Sheffield Crucible/UK tour and Noel Coward Theatre, West End) and is most remembered for playing Trisha Armstrong in Coronation Street. Other theatre credits include Joy in Jimmy Osborne's new play Meat at the Theatre503, Battersea; Long Road (Curve); Confusions (UK tour); Stiff Options (Croydon/UK tour); Trafford Tanzi (Bristol Old Vic); Road (Bolton Octagon); Strictly Ballroom, Tom Jones, Teaser (Swan, Worcester) and The Fancy Man (Coventry Belgrade/UK Tour). Television credits include Undeniable, Law and Order (UK), The Syndicate II, Outside Edge, Ghost Hunter, Strictly Confidential, EastEnders, Bodies, Nice Guy Eddie, Silent Witness, Where the Heart Is, Heartbeat, Casualty, Holby City, The Good Samaritan, The Bill, Rosemary and Thyme, Midsomer Murders, Doctors, Sunburn, Peak Practice, Crime Stories, El C.I.D and A Bit Of A Do. Tracy's film credits include Piercing Brightness (Shezad Dawood), Love + Hate (Dominic Savage), A Palace Divided (ABC TV) and Riff Raff (Ken Loach). Tracy is also a writer and has written for Doctors, Shameless, Hollyoaks, Tracy Beaker, Heartbeat and Family Affairs.

Within the British colony of expatriate actors in Hollywood during the 1930's, Barnett Parker was among the most stereotypical. Harrowgate College-educated, straight-backed, balding and well-intoned, Parker caricatured a multitude of unctuous, stiff-upper-lip butlers, man-servants or waiters, though his performances could, at times, verge on the brink of being camp. When driven to frustration his characters commonly resorted to incoherent twitter or wild gesticulation.

Parker was trained under Marie Tempest and George Alexander in England. He first acted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre as Wilfred Tavish in Arthur Wing Pinero's "The "Mind the Paint" Girl" in 1912. He was well served with further roles in hit plays like "Hobson's Choice" (1915), "Artists and Models" (1924) and "The Red Robe" (1928). He was at first prone to reject film offers, professing to favor acting on stage. Nonetheless, the celluloid medium eventually beckoned, enticing him to sign with the East Coast-based studio Thanhouser in 1915. He worked in films during the daytime (while treading the boards at night) and quickly landed a plum role as a weak socialite, rescuing Gladys Hulette in Prudence, the Pirate (1916). He was seldom thereafter afforded the opportunity for heroic acts. During the 1930's, he was primarily in demand for small roles as dandified or 'silly ass' Britishers, giving value for money in films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Personal Property (1937), Live, Love and Learn (1937) and Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937). Looking rather older than his years, Barnett Parker died at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles after multiple heart attacks on August 5, 1941.

Geoffrey Lumb was born on 13 July 1905 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for As the World Turns (1956), Another World (1964) and Producers' Showcase (1954). He died on 24 November 1990 in Madrid, Spain.

Jo Cox was born on 22 June 1974 in Batley, West Yorshire, England, UK. She was married to Brendan Cox. She died on 16 June 2016 in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, UK.

Robert Edwards was born on 27 September 1925 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Ruth Fowler and Ruth Fowler Edwards. He died on 10 April 2013 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

Mike Craig was born on 11 March 1935 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Thirty Minutes Worth (1972), The Young Generation (1970) and Beryl Reid (1977). He was married to Susan. He died on 28 October 2010.

David Holmes was born on 22 May 1927 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Avengers (1961), The Last Shot You Hear (1969) and From a Bird's Eye View (1970). He died on 13 April 1997.

Randolph Rhodes was born on 16 October 1924 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Unforeseen (1958) and Encounter (1952). He died on 6 August 2008 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Ruby Belasco was born in 1867 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Poor Clem (1915), The Cloister and the Hearth (1913) and The Ragged Messenger (1917). She died on 27 November 1936 in Telscombe Cliffs, Sussex, England, UK.

J.D. Halloran was born in 1927 in Birstall, Batley, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Television and Society (1973).

Hugh Garner was born on 22 February 1913 in Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Stone Cold Dead (1979), To See Ourselves (1971) and On Camera (1954). He died on 30 June 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.