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- Jonathan Cecil is deeply treasured as the narrator of countless books by comedic novelist P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) in audiobook version on Audible and also largely available on YouTube. Listeners love him particularly for his readings of the Bertie Wooster and Jeeves books, such as "Leave it to Jeeves," "The Inimitable Jeeves," "Thank you, Jeeves," "The Code of the Woosters," and many more. Cecil's performances of the plentiful and very diverse cast of characters excel beyond those of other known Wodehouse interpreters such as Frederick Davidson and Martin Jarvis. He has been referred to as The Voice of P. G. Wodehouse and his readings may constitute his greatest legacy.
- Alan Sillitoe was born on 4 March 1928 in Nottingham, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). He was married to Ruth Fainlight. He died on 25 April 2010 in Charing Cross, London, England, UK.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Lewin Fitzhamon born in Aldingham, Cumbria in 1869, began as a steeplechase rider and a music hall performer and also producer/writer of sketches in 1889. He first made films with Robert W. Paul,s Film Company in 1900, in 1904, he joined Cecil Hepworth as an writer, film director and actor specializing in children and animals probably directing around 600 films, his best known film was 'Rescued By Rover' in 1905 he showed himself to be accomplished in a wide range of narrative forms such as fantasies, comedies, westerns, dramas and chase films, he made a number of comic film series, including the 'Poorlucks' and the anarchic 'Tilly' series, Fitzhamon left Hepworth in 1912 and formed his own company 'Fitz Films'. He was also the author of two novels 'The Rival Millionaires' (1904) and 'The Vixen' (1915) and wrote comic pieces for magazines. Married actress Constance Somers-Clarke, died in London in 1961 age 92.- Alan was born in Weston-super-Mare and studied at a Hedley Goodall School in Bristol. He did radio as a youngster for the BBC in Bristol and spent 4 years in the Navy, making his professional debut in 1946 as a schoolboy in Exercise Bowler at The Arts Theatre, London with Willam Fox, Geoffrey Keene and Mark Dignam. Over a long theatrical career including 10 shows in the West End and many touring productions he worked with most of the prominent UK artists (except Olivier and Gielgud). His film and TV career began with a short for Edgar Lusgarden and included Softly Softly (1966),
Dad's Army (1971), Van der Valk (1972) and No Hiding Place (1959). In 2001 he was Michael Gambon's grandfather in _Perfect Strangers (2001)_. - Genine Graham was born on 9 December 1923 in Edmonton, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hell Below Zero (1954), Mystery at the Burlesque (1949) and Idol of Paris (1948). She was married to John Witty. She died on 11 May 1997 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.
- Louise Hampton was born on 23 December 1879 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), Haunted Honeymoon (1940) and The Middle Watch (1940). She was married to Edward Thane. She died on 10 February 1954 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.
- Lynn Faulds Wood was born on 25 March 1948 in Hillhead, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She was married to John Stapleton. She died on 24 April 2020 in Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England, UK.
- Goronwy Rees was born on 29 November 1909 in Rhos, North Road, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. He was married to Margaret Ewing Morris. He died on 12 December 1979 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Fred LeRoy Granville, ASC was one of the original 15 founders of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC). The reorganization committee met in the home of William C. Foster on Saturday, December 21, 1918 and drew up a new set of bylaws. The 10-member committee and five invited Cinema Camera Club member visitors were designated as the board of governors for the new organization.
The next evening, in the Hollywood Hills home of Fred LeRoy Granville, officers for the American Society of Cinematographers were elected - Philip E. Rosen, president; Charles Rosher, vice president; Homer A. Scott, second vice president; William C. Foster, treasurer; and Victor Milner, secretary. The Society was chartered by the State of California on January 8, 1919.
Born Warnambool, Victoria, Australia, in 1896, educated in New Zealand, as a young boy became interested in photography. His first experience with cinematography came in 1913 under the guidance of James Crosby at the Selig Polyscope studio in Edendale, near downtown Los Angeles.
Granville became an ornithological collector. He visited Santa Cruz Island in April 1912, then in 1914 he began his film career with the Sunset Motion Picture Company where he worked in Alaska, going as far north as Barrow, collecting birds while filming and traveling. He married his first wife, Mary Jayne Paynter in 1907, and they had two children: George Layton Granville (1908-1947), and Fred LeRoy Granville, Jr. (1910-1986) who became a two time Academy Award nominee, EMMY recipient as a sound effects engineer, with long career on films as It's a Mad Mad Mad World (1963) and The Under Sea World of Jacque Cousteau (1968.)
Granville, Sr photographed the documentary Rescue of the Stefansson Expedition (1914) and a number of features and serials for Universal, including Liberty - A Daughter of the U.S.A. (1916) and The Heart of Humanity (1918). He also shot several of cowboy actor Tom Mix's early Fox features.
GB Samuelson who had been operating a British film studio since 1912, became disappointed in lack of interest in distribution of his films in the United States, embarked on production renting space at Universal studios in December 1919.
He brought over American born director Alexander Butler, and British silent screen actress Peggy Hyland who had made her debut in England in 1914 and was placed under contract at Fox studios in Hollywood in 1918. She was loaned out to Samuelson who also hired Universal cameraman Fred LeRoy Granville and promoted him to the ranks of director. Granville went to England, where he married Peggy Hyland in 1921. His wife was a prolific filmmaker, in 1922 she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in With Father's Help, and in 1923 she starred in the US production, Shifting Sands (1923), directed by her husband Fred Le Roy Granville, with whom she had worked in America. The following year Hyland directed and starred in The Haunted Pearls and in 1925 she acted in Forbidden Cargoes (directed by Granville), then they divorced in 1923 while he continued working as a cinematographer and director until his death in London on November 14, 1932, from complications related to Bright's disease.- Somers Bellamy was born in 1875 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Taming of the Shrew (1923), Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922) and Hearts That Are Human (1915). He died on 18 January 1924 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
John Lawson was born on 9 January 1865 in Hollingwood, Derbyshire, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Humanity; or, Only a Jew (1913), The Monkey's Paw (1915) and The King of Crime (1914). He died on 25 November 1920 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.- John Oxford was born in 1899 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Academy Decides (1937), Bait (1950) and I Was a Dancer (1949). He died on 26 April 1953 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.
- Slaine Mills was born in 1867 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Call of the Drum (1914). He died on 3 February 1928 in Charing Cross, London, England, UK.
- Lawrence Gowing was born on 21 April 1918 in 53 Stamford Hill, London, England, UK. Lawrence was a director, known for Matisse: A Sort of Paradise (1969). Lawrence was married to Jenny Wallis. Lawrence died on 5 February 1991 in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK.