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Known primarily in Britain for his many "matinée idol" roles during the 1950s, Anthony Steel is perhaps best remembered in Hollywood and elsewhere as the erstwhile husband of Anita Ekberg.

His career never really took off in Hollywood; at one point during his marriage to Ms. Ekberg, he was referred to as "Mr. Ekberg" - a slight that reflected his success (or lack of it) in movies following the eventual breakup of the marriage.

Steel was born in London and was the son of an Indian army officer. He was educated at Cambridge and in World War II served as a Major in the Grenadier Guards Parachute Regiment and for a time served in the infant Special Air Service (S.A.S.) leaving in 1948.

It wasn't until after the war he decided to pursue acting, starring in such adventure-charged films as Malta Story (1953) for the J. Arthur Rank studio. His career was at its pinnacle and he was lauded as one of Britain's biggest movie stars when he married Ekberg in 1956 and set out with her to break into Hollywood pictures. Finding Hollywood unsatisfactory and even hostile, he turned primarily to making some not-so-memorable European films in the '70s and '80s - including The Story of O (1975) (The Story of O)

• and some guest spots on British TV.

He died on March 21, 2001, in Northwood, Middlesex, England.

David Knight was born on 16 January 1928 in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for On Such a Night (1956), A Story of David: The Hunted (1960) and Missiles from Hell (1958). He was married to Wendy McClure. He died on 20 December 2020.

James Robertson Justice was always a noticeable presence in a film with his large stature, bushy beard and booming voice. A Ph.D., a journalist, a naturalist, an expert falconer, a racing car driver, JRJ was certainly a man of many talents.

He entered the film industry quite late in life (37) after he was spotted serving as MC for a local music hall. He became a familiar figure on-screen after a succession of "larger than life" roles during the 40s and 50s, and particularly as Sir Lancelot Spratt in the "Doctor" film series.

In a career spanning 50 years, Isabel Dean demonstrated talent and versatility while never fulfilling the great promise initially indicated. With large eyes and classically chiseled features, she became best known as an exponent of somewhat steely patrician ladies of elegance and breeding. That she was capable of much more was demonstrated by her work on stage in both the classics and contemporary drama, but most of this was done in provincial theatres, partly no doubt because early in her career she offended "Binkie Beaumont", the West End's leading theatrical manager. She was born Isabel Hodgkinson in Aldridge, Staffordshire, in 1918. Her first ambition was to be an art teacher. She studied painting at the Birmingham Art School and in 1937 joined the Cheltenham Repertory Company as a scenic artist. Soon she was taking both acting lessons and small parts with the company. "It was inevitable, with her ravishing looks," commented one of the company later.

After appearing with repertory companies in Brighton and Norwich, she made her London debut on 1 May 1940 as Maggie Buckley in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's thriller Peril at End House, following this with a Shakespearean role, Mariana in Robert Atkins's Regent's Park production of All's Well That Ends Well. A major break came in 1943 when she played Jenny in John Gielgud's celebrated production of Congreve's Love for Love at the Phoenix.

The following year she was asked to join Gielgud's repertory company at the Haymarket, again playing Prue in Love for Love, but also understudying Peggy Ashcroft as Ophelia to Gielgud's Hamlet (the last time the great actor played the role). She played Ophelia several times when Ashcroft was sick and followed this with a performance as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream which, according to Harold Hobson, was "as pretty and sharply defined as it was lovely".

When Beaumont asked her to go with Gielgud's company to tour India, but only to play the role of the maid in Coward's Blithe Spirit and again to under-study Ophelia, she refused and Beaumont made it clear he considered her ungrateful. She never worked for his management again and made few more West End appearances. Instead she played leading roles in Oxford, Brighton and the Boltons Theatre, including a luminous Juliet.

She returned to the West End in 1956 to play Mary Dallas in the thriller The Night of the Fourth at the Westminster, and three years later played Miss Frost, the Catholic lodger seduced by a young student, in the hit production of J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man at the Fortune.

She had meanwhile become a familiar face on television. She had the principal female role in Nigel Kneale's enormously popular blend of science-fiction and horror The Quatermass Experiment (1953), six 30-minute episodes which went out live, with filmed inserts. Dean played the scientist whose astronaut husband returns from a mission with an alien infection that causes him to mutate into a vegetable-like creature.

When A Life of Bliss, a successful radio comedy series, was transferred to television with its original star, George Cole, as the bumbling bachelor hero, Dean was cast as his forthright sister Anne.

Other television roles included Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, David Mercer's The Parachute (as mother to John Osborne), Julian Bond's 13-part series A Man of Our Times and a high-toned soap-opera, 199 Park Avenue, sat in a luxury apartment block where the stories of the inhabitants are linked by a gossip columnist searching for stories. Created and written by Dean's husband, William Fairchild, it went out twice weekly, but lasted only nine weeks. (Dean's 1953 marriage to Fairchild, who wrote such screenplays as Morning Departure, The Malta Story and Star!, was dissolved in the early Seventies.)

In the theatre, she had successes in several contemporary plays, including the Royal Court production of John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam (1968), which moved into the West End, and in provincial productions of Orton's What the Butler Saw and John Bowen's chilling Robin Redbreast. She had a particularly notable triumph as Hester in Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea (at Guildford in 1971 and Nottingham in 1972), once more following in the footsteps of Peggy Ashcroft. Her wrenching portrayal of the clergyman's daughter, married to a High Court judge, who leaves her husband to pursue a hopeless and obsessive affair with a young air force pilot, clearly demonstrated that Dean's gifts had not always been appropriately exploited.

In 1977 she played with Gielgud, for the first time since she had been his Ophelia, in Julian Mitchell's Half Life at the National Theatre.

Dean's film career began in 1943 with a tiny role in The Man in Grey. Later films included Lean's The Passionate Friends (1948), and Sidney Gilliatt's The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953), in which she was the epitome of droll elegance as wife to Robert Morley's Gilbert. "How does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?" asks her husband as he puts the finishing touches to The Mikado. "I suppose I've always taken it for granted, dear," is her reply.

In Alexander Mackendrick's A High Wind in Jamaica, she presented a beautiful and touching picture of Victorian motherhood in the film's early sequences. Her last appearance on the West End stage was as the tragic mother of Alan Turing (Derek Jacobi) in Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code (1986).

A few years earlier the critic Harold Hobson had written: "Our own stage is rich in actresses of whom the chief jewel is Peggy Ashcroft - and the most undervalued is Isabel Dean."

Dean died aged 79 in 1997.

Eunice Gayson was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love). Originally, Gayson was to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but that part went to Lois Maxwell instead.

Gayson was originally to have been a regular in the Bond film series, but her character was dropped. Gayson's voice in Dr. No and From Russia with Love was overdubbed by voice actress Nikki van der Zyl, as were the voices of nearly all the actresses appearing in the first two Bond films, though Gayson's real voice can still be heard in original trailers for Dr. No.

As the first female to be seen in Dr. No together with James Bond (Sean Connery), she is officially the very first actress to play a Bond girl.

Decades later, Gayson's daughter appeared in a casino scene in the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye.

She also starred in the Hammer horror film The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958).

Gayson died on 8 June 2018, aged 90.

Melissa Stribling was a Scottish actress from the seaside resort of Gourock. Her best known role was playing Mina Holmwood in "Dracula" (1958), based on the novel's Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray. Her version of Mina was depicted as a sexually frustrated housewife, who seems pleased with her encounters with Dracula (played by Christopher Lee).

Stribling made her film debut in the historical film "The First Gentleman" (1948), based on the period that George IV of the United Kingdom served as Prince Regent (term 1811-1820). In the film, she played the role of Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham (1770 - 1861), the last known mistress of George IV.

Her next film role was the crime film "Wide Boy" (1952). She played Caroline Blaine, mistress of the "famous" surgeon Robert Mannering (played by Colin Tapley). In the film, a pickpocket finds out about the married surgeon's affair and decides to blackmail him. The film is primarily remembered as the directorial debut of Ken Hughes (1922-2001).

Stribling had a supporting role in the mystery film "Crow Hollow" (1952), playing Diana Wilson, a friend of the main character Ann Amour (played by Natasha Parry). The film was based on a Gothic novel by mystery writer Dorothy Eden (1912-1982). It features Ann investigating who was behind several attempts on her life.

Stribling was next reduced to playing minor characters in the thriller "Ghost Ship" (1952) and "Decameron Nights" (1953), which were both literary adaptations. Her next substantial role was the crime film "Noose for a Lady", based on a mystery novel by Gerald Verner (1897-1980). The film has an amateur detective investigating the murder of his own brother-in-law.

Her next major film was "Out of the Clouds" (1955), a film created with the assistance of the "Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation". It dramatized the lives of typical passengers and crew members of an airplane in London Airport (later renamed to Heathrow Airport). The film was directed by Basil Dearden, Stribling's husband.

Following several minor roles in films, Stribling returned to prominence with a substantial role in "Dracula" (1958). It was one of the earliest hit films for Hammer Film Productions, and helped turn Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing into leading men for horror films. Stribling herself did not benefit much from the film's success.

During the 1960s, Stribling played minor and supporting roles for several films. She also appeared in guest star roles in television. She turned up in then-popular shows, such as the spy series "The Avengers" (1961-1969) and the comedy series "The Benny Hill Show" (1955-1989). She had a recurring role in the soap opera "Compact" (1962-1965), which depicted the lives of people involved in magazine publishing.

In 1971, Stribling's husband Basil Dearden was fatally injured in a road accident. She became a widow at the age of 45. She never remarried. During the same year, she played in her first horror film in several years, "Crucible of Terror". It deals with spirit possession. In the film, a would-be serial killer finds himself attacked by the vengeful spirit of his first victim. The film was a box office flop.

Stribling's next film role was in the sex comedy "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" (1974). The film was part of the film series "Confessions", depicting the sexual adventures of main character Timothy "Timmy" Lea. The character was depicted as a working-class youth who constantly seeks new romantic partners, while dealing with perpetual bad luck. The film series was based on a novel series by Christopher Wood (1935 - 2015).

In 1979, Stribling had her last known television role in the short-lived mystery series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (1979-1980). Her episode was based on the short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle, a classic locked-room mystery. The television series was commissioned by the state-owned Polish television network "Telewizja Polska", though most of the cast and crew were British.

After a hiatus in her acting career, Stribling returned to the silver screen with the thriller film "Paris by Night" (1988). It was actually her last film role. In 1992, Stribling died in Watford, Hertfordshire. She was 65-years-old at the time of her death. She was survived by her son James Dearden (1949-), a successful screenwriter.

Stribling is long gone, but is still well-remembered by film historians due to her relatively few leading roles. Film historian Jonathan Rigby has argued that she was a terrific female lead in "Dracula", and others have commented that her facial expressions speak volume in the film. She has secured a place in horror film history.

Marie Lohr was born on 28 July 1890 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Pygmalion (1938), Notorious Gentleman (1945) and The Winslow Boy (1948). She was married to Anthony Leyland Val Prinsep. She died on 21 January 1975 in London, England, UK.

Legendary Australian-born character actress of the British screen, Miss Cannon was without doubt one of the best scene-stealing actresses.

Her pixie-like looks and extraordinary facial expressions made her a true favourite of many a British movie.

Without her appearances in many a 'Carry On' film in the 1960s, her career would have probably been forgotten today. Arguably, her most famous performance was as the lonely but happy spinster in Carry on Cruising (1962). The bar scene with Dilys Laye where both of their characters get hideously drunk, is as legendary as the movie itself.

To say that Terence Alexander, the distinguished British thespian, was hyperactive is a statement that borders on the understatement! Judge for yourself : born in 1923, following a short period when he considered becoming a priest, Alexander exercised the acting profession for six full decades and he might have beaten Queen Victoria's record, had not Parkinson's disease (an illness he finally died of at 86) taken its toll. In 1939, at age 16, he was already in the theater, as the first assistant manager of The White Rose Players Company at the Harrogate Opera House. It did not take more than a few months before he made his acting debut on the aforementioned scene, with the first role in J.B. Priestley's "The Good Companions". And not only would he appear in dozens of plays (signed Jean Anouilh, Ray Cooney, T.S. Eliot, Alan Bennett, Margaret Kennedy, and many others) but he would appear in no fewer than... 340 films, TV movies and series episodes! And that is without counting his career as a voice talent on the radio, as a film and a trailer narrator. Of course, appearing in so many plays and filmed works means that, except on the boards, he was not always the lead. He even hardly ever was. But whether in a supporting role or even a bit part, Terence Alexander managed to establish himself as a well-mannered upper class type with suave manners, although quite often on the wrong side of the law (he was excellent as one of the seven retired army officers turned bank robbers in Basil Dearden's quite enjoyable The League of Gentlemen (1960)). But he could also be an effective foil to comics like Norman Wisdom, Benny Hill and Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise. On TV, Terence Alexander was everywhere, in many quality TV films like "Autumn Crocus" (1952), "The White Carnation" (1956), "A Room in Town" (1970), "Frankenstein" (1984) and in more than one TV show. But he was first and foremost in an impressive number of series : these included Maigret (1960) (2 episodes, 1962-63), cult classics such as The Avengers (1961) (3 episodes, 1965-69), The New Avengers (1976) (1 episode, 1977), Man in a Suitcase (1967) (1 episode, 1968), The Champions (1968) (1 episode, 1969), The Persuaders! (1971) (1 episode, 1971) and Doctor Who (1963) (2 episodes, 1985), prestigious classic serials such as Nicholas Nickleby (1968) (5 episodes, 1968), The Forsyte Saga (1967) (9 episodes, 1967) and The Pallisers (1974) (3 episodes, 1974), and this is only a sample of all the series the prolific actor appeared in. With such a hectic activity, Terence Alexander of course gained recognition both from his peers and from the public but fame did not come to him before 1981 when he accepted (rather reluctantly by his own admission) the role of Charlie Hungerford in the detective series "Bergerac". As the power broker and (disapproving) former father-in-law of detective Jim Bergerac, played by John Nettles, he appeared in 85 of its 86 episodes. Shown in 35 countries, the series allowed Alexander to be known (and cherished) not only by an international audience but by the younger generation too. More than a swan song for this exquisite actor. When he retired in 1999 he must have have felt satisfied with his professional life.

Harold Kasket was born on 26 July 1926 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Moulin Rouge (1952), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Reluctant Bandit (1965). He was married to Esther Laredo. He died on 20 January 2002 in London, England, UK.

Jill Melford came from a rich theatrical background. She was evacuated to America during World War Two and was educated at Gardner School and the Ballet Arts School, both of which are in New York. Her New York theatre debut came in 1949 when she appeared as a dancer in a production of 'Oklahoma!' and her first London appearance came in 1953 when she performed in 'The Seven Year Itch'. She went on to appear in other stage plays including 'Auntie Mame', 'Ulysses in Night-time', 'The Life of the Party', 'The Right Honourable Gentleman', 'There's a Girl in My Soup', 'Not Now, Darling', 'Best of Friends' and 'The Chairman'. In addition to her acting work, Melford was also an experienced interior decorator. She was divorced from the actor John Standing with whom she had a son, Alexander.

Gordon Harker born in 1885 in London into a well-known family of theatrical artists, he first appeared on stage in 1903. Lugubrious, shifty cockney character who starred and supported in over 60 films his first film role as Major Kent in Harold M. Shaw 'General John Regan' starring Milton Rosmer for the Stoll Film Company in 1921 he was often cast as a comical cockney crook or cop in many comedy and thrillers, he appeared in three silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock 'The Ring' in 1927 'The Farmer's Wife' in 1928 and Champagne' in 1929 busy throughout the 1930's with some of his best, including 'Rome Express' in 1932, Boys Will Be Boys' in 1935 with Will Hay, and Michael Powell's 'The Phantom Light' in 1935, and also the 'The Frog' in 1937, he was noted for his performances as 'Inspector Hornleigh' in a trilogy of films made between 1938-40, his last appearance as Hardy in 'Left Right and Centre' in 1959 starring Ian Carmichael and Alastair Sim, also popular on radio and t.v. he died in 1967 in London age 82.

Born as Arthur John Stainer, he was the younger son of Ferdinand (Frank) Steiner and Lilian Blumberg. His brother was the film actor Leslie Howard and his sister the casting director Irene Howard. His uncle was the film director Wilfrid Noy. He married the actress Jean Compton Mackenzie (a daughter of the actor Frank Compton) in 1936 and they had a son together, the stage actor Alan Howard.

Arthur appeared in several television programmes such as Whack-O, a school comedy in which he played the hapless assistant headmaster Pettigrew to Jimmy Edwards's headmaster, and he was in the 1959 film version Bottoms Up. He appeared in many films, including American Friends, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, and had the small role of Cavendish in the James Bond film Moonraker.

Balding, worried-looking London-born comic actor, who first rose to prominence as Jimmy Edwards's long-suffering headmaster in 'Whack-O!' on BBC radio. The show was later transferred to the screen by BBC TV and ran from 1956 to 1960 in its original format.

Cyril Luckham was born on 25 July 1907 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Guardians (1971) and The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He was married to Violet Lamb. He died on 8 February 1989 in London, England, UK.

Russell Napier was born on 28 November 1910 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He was an actor, known for A Night to Remember (1958), The Unholy Four (1954) and The Case of the Red Monkey (1955). He was married to Lois Mary Caird Miller. He died on 19 August 1974 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK.

The star of the Carry On series of films, Sid James originally came to prominence as sidekick to the ground breaking British comedy actor Tony Hancock, on both radio and then television. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and named Solomon Joel Cohen, James arrived in England in 1946, second wife in tow, having served with the South African Army during World War 2. By now an aspiring actor, James claimed to have boxed in his youth, perhaps to explain his craggy features, but was certainly a well respected hairdresser in his native country. Known in the trade as "one take James", he became a very talented and professional actor, constantly in demand for small parts in British post-war cinema. In 1960 James debuted in the fourth of the Carry On films, taking the lead role in Carry on Constable (1960) and went on to appear in a further 18 Carry On films as well as various stage and television spin-offs. Reputed not to have got on with Carry On co-star Kenneth Williams, the two often played adversaries on-screen, notably in the historical parodies Carry on Up the Khyber (1968) and Carry on Don't Lose Your Head (1967). James however was respected and revered by almost everyone he worked with and contrary to popular myth, a true gentleman. An addiction to gambling played a large part in James' workaholic schedule and subsequent heart attack in 1967. He was soon back in action however, playing a hospital patient in Carry on Doctor (1967), able to spend most of the film in bed. He suffered a second and fatal heart attack on stage in Sunderland, England on April 26 1976, leaving behind 3 children and his third wife Valerie who had stuck by him despite his affair with Carry On co-star Barbara Windsor, saying, "He always came home to me".

Douglas Ives was born on 16 August 1898 in Sheffield, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Brandy for the Parson (1952), The History of Mr. Polly (1959) and Sherlock Holmes (1964). He died on 6 March 1969 in London, England, UK.

Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).

Charles Farrell was born on 6 August 1900 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for The Crimson Pirate (1952), Night and the City (1950) and Chimes at Midnight (1965). He was married to Babbie McManus. He died on 27 August 1988 in London, England, UK.

Andy Ho was born on 2 July 1913 in Singapore. He was an actor, known for Swiss Family Robinson (1960), Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) and The Avengers (1961). He died in January 1992 in London, England, UK.

Kenneth Kove was born on 30 April 1892 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Organizer (1963), The Great Game (1930) and Murder! (1930). He died in December 1984 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.

Jim Tyson was born on 2 September 1912 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for St. Ives (1967), Pegasus (1969) and The Wednesday Play (1964). He died on 9 September 1974 in England, UK.

Louis Matto was born on 16 August 1910 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Glad Tidings! (1953) and Softly Softly: Task Force (1969). He was married to Norah Mary Cox. He died on 16 April 1989 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK.

Gordon Humphris was born on 22 April 1921 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Come Dance with Me (1950), Miracle in Soho (1957) and Kaleidoscope (1946). He died on 4 July 2010 in Surrey, England, UK.

Anthony Faramus was born on 27 July 1920 in Saint Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands. He was an actor, known for The Colditz Story (1955) and King Rat (1965). He died on 4 August 1990 in Surrey, England, UK.