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- Polly Maberly was born in 1976 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1995), Foyle's War (2002) and Muscle (2019).
- Dylan Llewellyn was born on 10 September 1992 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Big Boys (2022), Frequencies (2013) and Finger Prick (2021).
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Caroline Quentin was born on 11 July 1960 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Life Begins (2004), British Men Behaving Badly (1992) and Blue Murder (2003). She has been married to Sam Farmer since 8 September 2006. They have two children. She was previously married to Paul Merton.- Hetti Bywater is an English actress from Eastbourne. She is known for her minor roles in Doctors and Casualty and in November 2011, she was cast as Lucy Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Bywater has had roles in Doctors, Casualty, the 2011 film St George's Day and the lead part in the 2011 film Counting Backwords.
Hetti was a student at The Theatre Workshop in Sussex and is represented by Mark Jermin Management. - Robert Raglan was born on 7 April 1909 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Handcuffs, London (1955), Patrol Car (1954) and Fabian of the Yard (1954). He died on 18 July 1985 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
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After harrowing experiences as a nurse at Sir Archibald McIndoe's pioneering plastic surgery hospital in East Grinstead, Anne Coates started to fulfil her long-held ambition to be a film director with a company called Religious Films. The work consisted of patching up prints of devotional shorts before sending them out to Britain's churches. This led to a job in the cutting room at Pinewood, where she worked on "The Red Shoes" among others before achieving her first screen credit with "The Pickwick Papers".- Actor
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Anthony May Trained at R.A.D.A. from 1965 to 1967.
He played Wick in David Halliwell's Little Malcolm at the Royal Court Theatre for the National Youth Theatre. Then Zigger in Zigger Zagger, which transferred to the Strand Theatre, for which he was nominated for a Variety Award for most promising newcomer.
In his first film, he played the Young Poet in Karel Reisz's Isadora. Roles in TV, including The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for the BBC and the Wednesday play No Trams to Lime Street (musical version), followed. Then a film in Czechoslovakia, Micheal Kohlaas, with David Warner and Anna Karina, directed by the Oscar-winning director Volker Shloendorff. A play at the Royal Court, Trixie and Baba by John Antrobus and Richard Cromwell in Cromwell with Richard Harris and Alec Guinness.
He starred in the short film Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, directed by Doug Hickox. The Soldier in Brendan Behan's The Hostage, directed by Richard Eyre, was followed by a tour of the Far East playing Prince Hal in Henry IV, parts 1 and 2. He starred as 'Pirie' in Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass, and a guest star role in the children's hit series, The Double Deckers'. He was a director of Senta Productions who produced the film The Triple Echo, which starred Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed, directed by Michael Apted.
Playing Sloane in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Kings Head Theatre preceded tours with the London Shakespeare Group's Macbeth of Iraq, Bangladesh, Korea, Japan and Africa, where they played to Maasai warriors in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro. He played Macduff at Frank Dunlop's Young Vic Theatre, where a long association over the years developed. This production was toured around Mexico, finishing at the Guanahato Festival. Other plays at the Young Vic included King Lear, The Real Inspector Hound, A Man for all Seasons, Richard II, Gloo Joo and Caesar in Anthony and Cleopatra. At the Bristol Old Vic Leonidik in Arbuzov's The Promise, and another production of 'Macbeth', this time playing Banquo, directed by Richard Cottrell. A film of Chekov's Zinotchka. An Australian film They Ran Before the Wind, filmed in the South Seas, in which Anthony played Fletcher Christian in a story of what happened after the mutiny on the Bounty. He then played Bobby in American Buffalo at the National Theatre, directed by Bill Bryden, and starred in an American drama documentary about Jack the Ripper. Anthony was also in the Jack the Ripper film Murder by Decree with James Mason and Christopher Plummer. He played Hamlet at the Northcott Theatre. Other roles there included Captain Plume in The Recruiting Officer and Sir Thomas Overbury in a new play Favours. Anthony worked with Mike Hodges on the Tom Stoppard written film Squaring the Circle, and was also in the film McVicar.
There have been many TV appearances, including Z-Cars, Casualty, Juliet Bravo, Dickens of London, The Bill, London's Burning, Anna Lee, The Paradise Club, El Cid, Bulman, Between the Lines, Softly, Softly, Rockliffe's Babies, Minder, All Quiet on the Preston Front, Chandler and Co, Boon, Coronation Street, The Dream Team, The Hutton Enquiry, The Ice House and Messiah, working with directors Adrian Shergold, Anthony Minghella, Martin Campbell, Stephen Poliakoff and Tim Fywell. Other stage plays include Richard II, Gloo Joo, Withdrawal Symptoms, A Chorus of Disapproval, Marino Faliero, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Launderette, A Last Belch for the Great Auk and The Nuns, which he also directed at the Roundhouse.
He was the voice of the King of the Dead in 'The Lord of the Rings' movie. In 2011 He played 'Bootstrap Bill' in the Pirates of the Caribbean video game and 'Thompson' in Tin Tin video game and 'Dickson' in The Xenoblade Chronicles. He recently played the Queen Elizabeth Hall, reading the poetry of Rumi.- Actress
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Peggy Hookham was always destined to be a dancer. Her Brazilian/Irish mother groomed her for stardom from almost as soon as she could walk. When she was aged 8 her father's work took the family to Shanghai. Peggy and her Mother returned to the UK when she was 14. Her father stayed in Shanghai and was interned by the Japanese for the duration of the war. Young Peggy was enrolled with the Royal Ballet School just when they were looking for a young British dancer to groom as the new Prima Ballerina. Until then all leading dancers in Britain had been Russian or French. Part of the grooming process was to change her name to Margot Fonteyn. Her most influential coach was Tamara Karsavina in London. Fonteyn also regarded her teacher Olga Preobrajenska, a disciple of George Balanchine. Fontain herself worked with George Balanchine as he staged and choreographed ballet for Sadler's Wells. She soon showed the natural talents and dedication required of a Prima Ballerina and after many wonderful performances at Sadler's Wells she went with the Royal Ballet on their 1949 American tour. Her performance as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty on their opening night in NYC wowed the critics and fans alike. Her performance set a new standard for the role. Success followed success and she was soon to become the most famous and most successful ballerina in the world. But one thing eluded her. She fell in love with composer / conductor Constant Lambert but he decided in favor of another. She then fell for playboy Roberto "Tito" Arias. He was a Panamanian delegate to the U.N. and the son of a powerful Panamanian family that had fallen out of political favor. Despite his reputation the couple were married at the Panamanian Consulate in Paris in February 1955. Whilst Margot continued her successful career, she was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1956, Tito planned an armed invasion of Panama City to try to win back some of the power he felt was rightfully his. Margot joined him but the invasion was a total failure. In 1962 Margot was thinking of retirement (she was 43) from ballet when she met Rudolf Nureyev who had fled from the Soviet Union. Young Rudolf Nureyev revitalized Margot and led to some of her most wonderful performances. In 1964, just when Margot was thinking about divorcing him, Tito was shot five times and from then he was paralyzed from the neck down. Margot flew to his side and from then on was his nurse as well as the wife he had never let her be before. Although she knew how he had had many affairs she dedicated the rest of her life to him. It was mainly because of the money she needed to care for Tito that she kept dancing long after most dancers would have retired. She attracted some bad publicity by performing in apartheid South Africa and in the Chile run by the military dictators. As a dancer she made her last appearance in Nureyev's 1979 summer season, and in February 1986 (aged 66) she appeared on stage for the last time, as 'The Queen' in "The Sleeping Beauty", for the Birmingham Royal Ballet in Miami. She subsequently retired to Panama where she and Tito ran a cattle stud. When Tito died in 1989 Margot discovered that he had mortgaged their farm and she had to auction all her jewelry to pay for her own medical care for the newly discovered cancer. Dame Margot died on February 21st 1991. She was buried in the Arias family plot in Panama beside her Tito.- Christina Greatrex was born on 18 June 1946 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Penelope (2006), Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (1988) and The Disappearance (1977).
- Janet Hargreaves was born on 31 May 1937 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), New Year's Eve (2002) and Secret Agent (1964). She was married to Martin Kirby. She died on 4 August 2018 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
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Jean Metcalfe was born on 2 March 1923 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for This Is the BBC (1959), Pantomania: Babes in the Wood (1957) and Family Affairs (1954). She was married to Cliff Michelmore. She died on 28 January 2000 in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, UK.- Music Department
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Mike Sammes was born on 19 February 1928 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Carry on Don't Lose Your Head (1967), Stork Talk (1962) and Tiffany Jones (1973). He died on 19 May 2001 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK.- Music Department
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Ronald Hanmer was born on 2 February 1917 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was a composer and writer, known for Pet Sematary (2019), Mystery at the Burlesque (1949) and The Year My Voice Broke (1987). He died on 23 May 1994 in Brisbane, Australia.- Edward Harvey was born on 4 July 1895 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Newcomers (1965), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and Doctor in Charge (1972). He died on 5 August 1975 in Ventnor, England, UK.
- Amber Kammer was born in 1945 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for ITV Play of the Week (1955), The Man in Room 17 (1965) and Frustrated Wives (1974).
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Susan McConachy was born on 25 July 1942 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She was a producer, known for Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995), The Nazis: A Warning from History (1997) and Hollywood (1980). She was married to Peter Taylor. She died on 16 November 2006 in England, UK.- Actor
Sanders Watney was born on 11 April 1908 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor. He died in February 1983 in Hampshire, England, UK.- Producer
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John Coates was born on 7 November 1927 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was a producer and production manager, known for Heavy Metal (1981), The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (1992) and Yellow Submarine (1968). He died on 16 September 2012 in Longfield, Kent, England, UK.- Gordon McDonell was born on 30 October 1905 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Shadow of a Doubt (1943), They Won't Believe Me (1947) and Step Down to Terror (1958). He died on 16 December 1995 in Green Valley, Arizona, USA.
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Susan Gritton was born on 31 August 1965 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Le nozze di Figaro (1994), BBC Proms (2009) and Messiah (2009).- Writer
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Jack Latham was born on 16 December 1997 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Headspace (2020), Nostalgia (2017) and Professional Practice (2017).- Producer
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Philip Donnellan was born on 9 February 1924 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Omnibus (1967), Tuesday's Documentary (1968) and Bd8 (1967). He was married to Gillian Berry. He died on 15 February 1999 in Passage West, County Cork, Ireland.- Jennifer Thorne was born on 16 May 1931 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hereafter (2010), The Sea Change (1998) and Londoners (1965). She was married to Jon Croft. She died on 2 August 2015 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK.
- After graduating from The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art, Richard Winter-Stanbridge, GOTJ, began a three dimensional career in the creative, academic and corporate worlds, all associated with the Performing Arts, for which he is a constant advocate. In the final years of its existence he was Head of Drama at the renowned Bush Davies Ballet School in Britain. Upon the school's closure in 1989, he pursued his keen interest in classical and jazz music and was an associate conductor of The London Schubert Orchestra and director of the Chelsea Jazz Orchestra and The Mayfair Dance Orchestra, resident at The Ritz Hotel in London. He flirted with a performing career in his early twenties, and learned much about filmmaking when on the sets of films directed by such luminaries as David Lean, Terry Gilliam and John Glenn.
Chev. Richard has combined his love of teaching and performing with an inherent sense of business. He has coached Royal Shakespeare Company actors and employed his negotiating and arbitrating skills as a trustee of two performing arts educational foundations. After emigrating to the United States of America in 1996, he continued such activities as a guest teacher at UCLA, The American Academy of Dramatic Art and Campbell Hall. He has developed the careers of many actors and musicians and as an impresario formed his own production company, Wintershaw Enterprises.
In the mid 1990's Chev. Richard teamed up with the late Margot, Countess of Buckinghamshire as a professional fund-raiser. They promoted events and concerts that benefited charitable organizations, including Save The Children Fund and The Royal Marsden Cancer Fund.
Chev. Richard has held executive positions in his family owned BAS Group of Companies; Rhapsody Music Ltd. in London and is President & CEO of Shene Gate Pictures LLC, and Founder/Chairman of Gigantic Worx Centers - The Ultimate Music Theme Parks, advocating music education. He is also President of The American Elgar Foundation. At the invitation of the Board of Directors of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA L.A.) Chev. Richard set up the Academy's first Screening Panel, made up of leading lights in the film and television industry. He was honored with an ecclesiastical knighthood in 2011 through the International Order of Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani (OSMTH), Switzerland. Chev. Richard is British and resides with his wife, actress Tessa Shaw in Surrey, England - Stephanie Heesom was born in 1942 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) and The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1967).