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- Clive Merrison was born on 15 September 1945 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. He is an actor, known for The History Boys (2006), Firefox (1982) and Heavenly Creatures (1994). He was previously married to Gillian Barge.
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Kenneth went to a grammar school in South Wales where the English literary teacher had the class read out parts in plays, which was the one thing he enjoyed; as a result, he was put in a play about Richard II. A local critic wrote, 'If this boy chooses to make the stage a career he should do well,' which gave Kenneth the idea of acting despite never having seen an actor or a theatre up to then. He left school at 15 with no idea of what to do apart from joining the army which would provide him with a uniform and food and possibly send him to India. Instead he went to Cambridge at 15½ to work in an ironmongers. He went to the stage door of the Cambridge Theatre with some of his notices and asked for the producer, who gave him a job at £3 a week. Despite having had no formal theatre training he made 70+ films, as well as researching and directing two of his own documentaries.- Charles Dale was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire in 1963. His father ran a record shop in Tenby and both his parents were keen amateur actors. After leaving school in 1979, he became an assistant stage manager (through a Youth Opportunity Scheme) at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven, where he stayed for a year. After occasional acting roles, he moved to London and trained at LAMDA.
He broke into television, when he appeared in Morgan's Boy (1984) and also worked consistently for the English Shakespeare Company. His big break came, when he appeared as the Chef, in a television series The Lakes (1997). He appeared in a couple of West End shows and played Dennis in Coronation Street (1960) for eighteen months. He later appeared as Clive, in Paradise Heights (2002) for the BBC with Neil Morrissey and Ralf Little as well as its spin-off The Eustace Bros. (2003). Further roles emerged in ITV's Steel River Blues (2004) and a children's series Barking! (2004) in 2004. He is married and lives in Wales with their son. He is a private family man who does not court publicity. - Dick Francis learned to ride when he was five, on a donkey. His older brother offered him sixpence if he could jump the fence sitting backwards on the donkey. It took five tries, but the determined five-year-old did finally manage to stay on the donkey as he jumped the fence. He collected the sixpence from his brother and earned his first riding fee. Of that experience he says, "In my heart, from that moment, I became a professional horseman." He became an amateur steeplechase rider when he was 26, and two years later began riding as a professional steeplechase jockey. He won more than 350 races, and was retained as jockey to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother for four seasons. Perhaps his most famous and controversial ride was on the Queen Mother's horse, Devon Loch, in the 1956 Grand National. Fifty yards from the finish line, with the race virtually won, the horse just suddenly fell. Afterwards, they could find nothing wrong with the horse, and the mystery as to what happened has never been solved. Soon after, at 36, Francis decided to retire as a jockey. He became a racing correspondent for the Sunday Express and published his first book, an autobiography entitled "The Sport of Queens," in 1957. His first mystery novel, "Dead Cert," was published in 1962. Since then he has written an average of a mystery per year, to the delight of his many fans. He writes about what he knows best, and each novel touches on racing and horses in some way. The mysteries are more than simple "horse stories," though, as Francis uses his descriptive style to bring to life heroes who are actors, artists, photographers, bankers, contractors, wine merchants, inventors, diplomats, teachers, pilots, meteorologists - and the list goes on. Francis speculated in his autobiography that he would be remembered as "the man who didn't win the National", but to his many fans around the world, he will always be the definitive Master of Mystery.
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Michael Lieber is a British novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Lieber's novels include The War Hero, The Boy and the Goldlock and Helga Dune. Throughout the 2010's, Lieber had a brief career as a London playwright and actor, during this period he also appeared in a handful of films. One of his first appearances was in the 2014 biopic Ramanujan, a period drama set in 1914 about the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Lieber played John Edensor Littlewood, starring alongside Kevin Mcgowan, Cloudia Swann, and Richard Walsh. When preparing to play the part, Lieber mat with renowned Hungarian mathematician professor Béla Bollobás who had worked with Littlewood in the 1970's.- Augustus John was born on 4 January 1878 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. He was married to Nettleship, Ida. He died on 31 October 1961.
- Cecil Woodham-Smith was born on 29 April 1896 in Tenby, Wales, UK. She was a writer, known for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and The Brains Trust (1955). She died on 16 April 1977 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Rhidian Brook was born in 1964 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. He is a writer, known for The Aftermath (2019), Africa United (2010) and Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (2011).