• Barbara Lyon
  ...returned later to the United States, they made Britain their adopted home. From 1950 to 1961 they had a [[w:radio|radio]] programme on the [[w:BBC|BBC]], ' ....independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-barbara-lyon-1592650.html Obituary from ''The Independent'' (London)]
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• Hermione Baddeley
  | death_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S. ..., 21 August 1986.</ref> She found her milieu in revue, in which she played from the 1930s to the 1950s, co-starring several times with the English actress
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• Mavis Villiers
  ...stry.com; accessed 25 July 2015.</ref> Her stage name, Villiers, was taken from her maternal grandfather.<ref>[http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=mavis+villiers+ ...ly in 1921, aged 11.<ref name=CSR/> The family settled in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], where her father became a technician at a film company.<ref>[h
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• Lili Damita
  [[Image:Damita & Flynn.jpg|thumb|Damita and husband [[Errol Flynn]] at Los Angeles airport, 1941]] ...yth"}}</ref> she married unknown actor [[Errol Flynn]] in 1935 and retired from the screen. Flynn soon became one of Hollywood's biggest box office attract
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• Yolande Donlan
  ...mit to star in the lead in ''[[w:Peter Pan|Peter Pan]]'' due to complaints from [[w:Equity (trade union)|Equity]], the actor's union, who felt that a Briti ...n the household of her actor father James Donlan in the [[w:Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] of the 1930s. It also charts her early career as a dancer and a
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• Sabrina (actress)
  | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], U.S. ...es'' ([[BBC|BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref n
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• Ben Lyon
  ...ed into a leading man. He was successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era, including [[w:Pola Negri|Pola Negri]], [[w:Gloria Swanso ...cal films as well as a television series on BBC and independent television from 1954 until 1960. Bebe Daniels had top billing in these series, similar to t
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• Phyllis Calvert
  ...argaret Morris (dancer)|Margaret Morris School of Dancing]], and performed from the age of ten, performing with [[Ellen Terry|Ellen Terry]] in ''Crossings' ...=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She received several offers from studios and eventually decided to sign a six-picture deal with [[Paramount
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• Bill Travers
  ...en]] (1913–2001) and her daughter [[Susan Travers (actress)|Susan]] became actresses. ...ews |author=E. Schallert |date=16 March 1956 |title=Drama |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |id={{ProQuest|166926619}} }} Library login required</ref> but the
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• Glynis Johns
  ...ers (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''. She is one of the last surviving stars from the [[Classical Hollywood cinema|Golden Age of Hollywood]] and class years ...Strangers (1945 film)|Perfect Strangers]]'' (1945) (also titled ''Vacation from Marriage'').
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• Susan Shaw
  ...ite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230551834 |title=FILM NEWS FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=11,818 | ...Blessings'' (1953). In April 1951 the ''Daily Mail'' listed Shaw on a poll from over 2,000 readers as one of the most popular British female actors in the
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• James Booth
  ...My Success (1965 film)|The Secret of My Success]]'' opposite such popular actresses as [[Honor Blackman]] and [[Shirley Jones]], his alcoholism, his unaggressi ...ed for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he studied from 1954 to 1956. Classmates included Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole, Alan Bates
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• Margaret Rutherford
  ...al Lunatic Asylum]]. Seven years later, on 26 July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor and reunited with his wife. He legally dropped his surname. ...on|Wimbledon]], South London, after her [[pregnant]] mother hanged herself from a tree.
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• Dudley Moore
  ...other projects until the mid 1970s, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles to concentrate on his film acting. ...a Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician from Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/13
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• Diana Dors
  ...om the age of eight onwards were [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] actresses [[Veronica Lake|Veronica Lake]], [[Lana Turner|Lana Turner]] and [[Jean Har Dors often played characters suffering from unrequited love, and by the mid-1950s, she was known as "the English [[Mari
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• The Benny Hill Show
  ...edy television show starring [[Benny Hill]] that aired on the BBC and ITV (from 1969) between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of ...example, in a murder mystery farce entitled "Murder on the Oregon Express" from 1976 (a parody of ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on th
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• Angela Lansbury
  * United States (from 1951) * Ireland (from {{Circa|1970}})
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• Anna Neagle
  ...st a mere £23,000 to produce, it was a hit at the box office, with profits from its Australian release alone being £150,000.<ref name="bfireleases">[https ...as ''The Show Goes On''. The film, with a script featuring a contribution from [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] (later to co-write ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with [[Ors
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• Patricia Routledge
  ...ead-born actress Patricia Routledge marks return to home town with reading from classic children's book|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-n ...ch she portrayed every [[First Lady of the United States|U.S. First Lady]] from [[Abigail Adams]] to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]];<ref>{{cite news |last=Blekicki
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• Maggie Smith
  ...over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses.<ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite web |date=7 September 2023 |title=Maggie ...archive-date=27 September 2013 |access-date=7 August 2013 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Croggon |first=Alison |date=10 June 20
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