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- Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now widely accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science. In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and he was honored by burial in Westminster Abbey.
- Charlotte Lord was born on 30 June 1943 in West Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Airport '77 (1977) and Murder: Ultimate Grounds for Divorce (1984). She died on 26 June 2015 in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, USA.
- An Australian character actor, director and producer who emigrated to Australia from his native England in 1950. Quitting his job as a publicity officer, he became a professional actor in 1968. He was best known for his soap opera television roles, but also appeared in film and numerous theatre productions. He was known for his villainous roles, once remarking that this was due to his bald head (he had been totally bald since the age of 25). He had many guest roles on television series; mini-series and telemovies; and films.
He was conscripted to Her Majesty's Royal Navy in 1943 at the age of eighteen years and spent the later years of World War II serving on a minesweeper. His ship was involved in the D-Day operation and he watched the action from just off the Arromanches beach. In October 1950 he arrived in Melbourne Australia under the £10 assisted passage emigration scheme. In December 1975 he took Australian Citizenship.
By 1953 he was taking on leading parts with the Little Theatre Company in Melbourne and as well as acting he was producing and directing difficult plays such as Chekhov and Ibsen. In 1963 he moved to Brisbane and he joined the Queensland Arts Theatre. He continued his acting career in his spare time. In the 1960s he was campaigning in Brisbane for a new permanent arts centre and was involved in these plans which resulted in the Arts Complex being built.
In 1970 he was in It's a Rum Do and had the role of Samuel Marsden, the priest who was partly responsible for bringing merino sheep to Australia which started the wool industry. The play was chosen to be given a Royal Command Performance in the Brisbane Arts Centre. ]He was presented to the Queen and he told her that over the past two years he had played eight priests. She asked him "Why" and she smiled when he answered "It was my purity of spirit and a bald head". After this, his acting career took off.
In the 1970s he became famous playing the recurring role of slimy Town Clerk Eddie Buchanan in soap opera Number 96, and later Dr. Vincent Snape in The Young Doctors. He was also known for his long running itinerant role as devious town councillor Alfred Muldoon from 1982-1992 in the soap opera A Country Practice. He also acted in the film Street Fighter.
In 1990, he appeared as Mr. Gordian in Bloodmoon, a horror film. - Marika Rivera was born on November 13, 1919, in Paris, France. Her father was Diego Rivera, then an aspiring Cubist artist from Mexico, living in Paris. Her mother was the Russian born artist, named Marie Vorobieff, also known under her artistic name as Marevna. Shortly after her birth her father left to live with another woman, and later married artist Frida Kahlo.
Young Marika Ribera was raised by her Russian mother, Marevna, and was educated as a dancer and actress. She also had a surrogate father, a Russian-Jewish artist Chaim Soutine, who formed a common-law family with her mother, Marie Vorobieff (Marevna). They lived in the artistic community of La Rouche (The Beehive) in Monparnasse. In 1938, Marika married the French painter Jean Paul Brusset by whom she had a son, Jean Brusset. Her second husband was Rodney Philips, who was the owner of Athelhampton House in Dorset, England. There Marika had her second son, David Philips, born in 1949. After the break-up of her second marriage, Marika lived with her mother and two sons in her own home in suburban London. She played bit parts in several films, of which the best known was 'The Fiddler on the Roof', and adaptation of 'Tevie the Milkman', a book by Sholom Aleichem.
Marika Rivera also tried a career of a playwright, her play titled 'Marika's Cafe Theatre' (1980) was produced by Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, London, in 1980. She is living in retirement in a suburb of London. - Darryl Grimason was a director and producer, known for It's the Way He Told Them... A Tribute to Frank Carson (2012) and Autumnwatch (2006). He was married to Karen . He died on 22 December 2022 in Dollingstown, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK.
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman was born on 7 September 1836 in Kelvinside House, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was married to Sarah Charlotte Bruce. He died on 22 April 1908 in 10 Downing Street, Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Archibald Primrose was born on 7 May 1847 in London, England, UK. He died on 21 May 1929 in Epsom Downs, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Bert Dillard was born on 25 March 1909 in Equiela, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Rainbow Valley (1935). He was married to Rose M.. He died on 19 June 1960 in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, USA.- Producer
- Casting Director
- Additional Crew
Jo Gilbert was born on 7 June 1955 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. She was a producer and casting director, known for Property of the State (2016), Closing the Ring (2007) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993). She was married to Marc Sinden. She died on 15 September 2018 in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK.- Rita was born on 14 June 1850 in Gollanfield, Scotland, UK. She was a writer, known for Grim Justice (1916), Sheba (1919) and My Lord Conceit (1921). She died on 1 January 1938 in Combe Down, Somerset, England, UK.
- David Capper was born in 1933 in Belfast, Nothern Ireland, UK. He died on 23 March 2024 in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland.
- Johnny Howard died on 19 August 2013 in Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.
- Iain Macleod was born on 11 November 1913 in Skipton, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to Evelyn Hester Blois. He died on 20 July 1970 in 11 Downing Street, Westminster, England, UK.
- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Meta Grainger was born on 24 June 1904 in Newtownards, County Down, Ireland. She was an actress, known for The Luck of the Irish (1936) and Devil's Rock (1938). She died on 29 October 1956 in County Down, Ireland.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Victor Haddick was born on 11 June 1887 in Parsonstown [now Birr], County Offaly, Ireland. He was a writer and director, known for The Voice of Ireland (1936) and The Luck of the Irish (1936). He died on 31 May 1950 in Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Harold Weston was born on 4 December 1885 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Shadows (1915), Motherhood (1915) and Cynthia in the Wilderness (1916). He died on 14 June 1959 in Newcastle, County Down, Ireland.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Moore Wasson was born on 2 December 1918 in Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK. He was a producer and director, known for Viewpoint (1959), Songs of Praise (1961) and Meeting Point (1957). He died on 19 July 2009 in Bangor, County Down, Ireland.- Terence Grainger was born on 21 August 1900 in Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK. He was an actor, known for Devil's Rock (1938) and The Early Bird (1936). He died on 5 July 1980 in County Down, Ireland.
- John Francis Rooney was born on 17 August 1945 in Northern Ireland, UK. He was an actor, known for Shamus (1958). He died on 26 January 2010 in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK.
- Adelaide Stanley was born on 30 May 1906 in Chelsea, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1938). She died on 2 May 1981 in Downe, Orpington, Kent, England, UK.