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On the stage and on the big screen, Delroy Lindo projects a powerful presence that is almost impossible to ignore. Alhough it was not his first film role, his portrayal of the bipolar numbers boss West Indian Archie in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) is what first attracted attention to Lindo's considerable talents. Since then, his star has slowly been on the rise.
The son of Jamaican parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, United Kingdom, until his teens when he and his mother, a nurse, moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A little later, they moved to the United States, where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. After graduation, Lindo landed his first film role, that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffiti (1979). However, he did not appear in another film for ten years. In the meantime, Lindo worked on stage and, in 1982, debuted on Broadway in "Master Harold and the Boys" directed by the play's author, Athol Fugard. In 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portrayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Though he was obviously a talented actor with a bright future, Lindo's career stalled. Wanting someone more aggressive and appreciative of his talents, Lindo changed agents (he'd had the same one through most of his early career). It was a smart move, but it was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed. The director was impressed enough with Lindo to cast him as patriarch Woody Carmichael in Lee's semi-autobiographical comedy Crooklyn (1994).
For Lindo, 1996 was a big year. He landed major supporting roles in six features, including a heavy in Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995), another villainous supporting role in Lee's Clockers (1995), and still another bad guy in Feeling Minnesota (1996). Lest one believe that Lindo is typecast into forever playing drug lords and gangsters, that year he also played baseball player Leroy "Satchel" Paige in the upbeat Soul of the Game (1996) (a.k.a. Baseball in Black and White), for which he won a NAACP Image Award nomination. Since then, the versatile Lindo has shown himself equally adept at playing characters on both sides of the law. In 1997, he played an angel opposite Holly Hunter in Danny Boyle's offbeat romantic fantasy A Life Less Ordinary (1997) and, in 2009, a vengeful cop in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
Lindo graduated from San Francisco State University in 2004 with a degree in Cinema.- Actor
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Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents to the USA in 1908. After some years onstage as a dancer and comedian, he made his first film appearance in The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) singing "Thanks for the Memory", which became his signature tune.
In partnership with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, he appeared in the highly successful "Road to ..." comedies (1940-52), and in many others until the early 1970s. During World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars he spent much time entertaining the troops in the field. For these activities and for his continued contributions to the industry he received five honorary Academy Awards.- Music Artist
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Boy George was born on 14 June 1961 in Eltham, Kent, England, UK. He is a music artist and actor, known for The Crying Game (1992), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and The Bad Batch (2016).- Actor
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An English film and television actor best known for his appearance as Duncan in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starring Kevin Costner.
Sparrow began his career as a stand-up comic before moving to acting with a period with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first film role was in 1964, in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, with Christopher Lee. Subsequent films, interspersed between countless TV appearances, included the 1969 sex fantasy Zeta One, Young Sherlock Holmes, and the acclaimed 1988 film The Accidental Tourist starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.
His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, with Sparrow playing key roles in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as the blinded retainer Duncan, 1993's The Secret Garden as gruff gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and the 1995 American coming-of-age film Now and Then as tragic drifter 'Crazy Pete'. In 1998 he starred in Tony Harrison's film Prometheus.
Sparrow's even more prolific TV appearances included regular roles in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm, as two different characters, and the comedy Paris, and guest spots on Hugh and I, Adam Adamant Lives!, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Z-Cars, All Creatures Great and Small, Alas Smith and Jones, Rumpole of the Bailey, Ernie in Birds Of A Feather, and The Bill among many others.
Sparrow is also well known for playing Maurice, a peasant who was threatened to be shipped to the Americas, in the 1998 Cinderella remake Ever After.
One of his more notable guest appearances was in the 1989 episode Danger UXD of the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, which had 16.1 million viewers, as porn shop owner Dirty Barry.
In the 1990s the appeared in the sitcoms One Foot in the Grave (1990) and The Thin Blue Line (1995). His last appearance was in 2000 in an episode of the BBC's medical drama series Doctors.- Actor
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Jonathan Guy Lewis was born on 20 May 1963 in Eltham, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Our Boys (2012), Pickled (2015) and London's Burning (1988). He is married to Miranda Foster. They have one child.- Actor
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Andre Van Gyseghem was born on 18 August 1906 in Eltham, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The March of the Peasants (1952), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965) and Sentimental Education (1970). He was married to Jean Forbes-Robertson. He died on 13 October 1979 in London, England, UK.- Director
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Pat Jackson began as an editor and co-director of documentaries with the famed GPO Film Unit in the mid-1930s. He worked with such icons of the documentary field as John Grierson and Harry Watt, but it was his World War II semi-documentary Western Approaches (1944) that put him on the map. Praised as a skillful blend of real footage and studio-shot model work, the film was photographed in sumptuous Technicolor by renowned cinematographer Jack Cardiff and told the story of the harrowing dangers faced by merchant seamen in the war.
Unfortunately, Jackson was unable to capitalize on this success. He spent an unproductive time under contract to producer/director Alexander Korda and spent an additional two years in Hollywood under contract to MGM, where he made just one film, the somewhat atmospheric melodrama Shadow on the Wall (1950). Returning to Britain in 1951, he was never able to find his niche, drifting among various producers, studios and independent companies. He found a lot of work directing episodic TV series. His fortunes seemed to rise in 1958, however, when he directed Our Virgin Island (1958), a light-hearted tale of a young couple starting their life on an isolated--and uninhabited--West Indian island. His follow-up film, Snowball (1960), was also a critical and commercial success, as was his comedy-thriller No Place Like Homicide! (1961) and the dark, moody Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962). Again, these small successes didn't lead to anything bigger or better, and he finished out his career in television.- British essayist and novelist Thomas Burke was born in London in 1886. His father died when Thomas was still an infant. He lived on and off with a succession of relatives, and spent four years in an orphanage. After graduating school at age 15 he took a variety of jobs, but his interest was always in writing (he sold his first story at age 16). He worked for a used-book seller and later a literary agency. A publisher saw some of his privately published poems and anthologies and commissioned him to write a book. He wrote a series of sketches about life in London called "Nights in Town". That was followed by a volume of short stories, "Limehouse Nights". That book met with considerable success, and he was afterward commissioned to write by both British and American publishers. He wrote in a variety of forms, including short stories, essays, novels, poems and even penned several songs. Probably his best known work was the short story "The Chink and the Child", which was made into a very successful movie by D.W. Griffith called Broken Blossoms (1919) in 1919 and again in 1936 (Broken Blossoms (1936)).
He died in London in 1945 at age 58. - Dubbed a new gen style icon, Snoochie Shy is a DJ, model and presenter. Having captured the attention of many Shy can be found flying across the globe to DJ for the likes of Topshop, River Island, Adidas, G Star to name a few.
Shy hosts the breakfast show on Radar Radio and in 2017 became a resident presenter for cult brand Missguided, she joined the team at BBC 1Xtra and became a host on YO MTV raps. She has also collaborated with High Snobiety and Nike and has live-hosted major events including MOBO awards red carpet and for Redbull including ' Grime-A-side'.
Shy is no stranger to modelling and has worked for top brands such as Ugg, Nike, Adidas, Dr Martens, Warehouse and Vans and is the current ambassador for Sleek makeup and digital platform VOXI
Snoochie Shy will make her film debut in In2ruders, an upcoming thriller from award winning filmmaker Naeem Mahmood. - Sara was born in South East London and on leaving the local grammar school went to Bristol University, gaining a degree in English and Drama before enrolling at the Guildhall School of Drama in London. Whilst there she won a contract to work with the BBC radio repertory company, which gained her an Equity card and the prestigious Carleton Hobbes award for young radio players. In 1977 whilst playing Lady Macbeth in a repertory company she was spotted by a producer for 'The Archers', radio serial and given the role of Cordon Bleu chef Caroline Bone, who, after working at the Bull pub, graduated to the more up-market Grey Gables hotel, ultimately becoming its owner with husband Oliver Sterling. Whilst 'The Archers' was her best-known work she made occasional forays into popular television shows, in addition to touring with her Archers co-star Sunny Ormonde with a show entitled Wicked Women and her own one-woman show. In 2016 she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and in February 2017 sadly passed away at a palliative care home in Warwickshire.
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Terry Henebery was born on 4 September 1932 in Eltham, London, England, UK. Terry was a producer and director, known for Jazz 625 (1961), Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969) and Hi There! It's Rolf Harris (1964). Terry died on 24 April 2024 in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, UK.- Writer
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Richard Hills was born on 17 January 1926 in Eltham, London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Flip (1970), Two of a Kind (1961) and Carrott Confidential (1987). He died on 15 June 1996 in Sussex, England, UK.- Geoffrey Bond was born on 1 October 1920 in Eltham, London, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Five Clues to Fortune (1957), Headline Hunters (1968) and ITV Television Playhouse (1955). He was married to Stella Bond. He died on 27 December 2009 in England, UK.
- Jeremy Strong was born on 18 November 1949 in New Eltham, London, England, UK. Jeremy was a writer, known for There's a Viking in My Bed (2001) and Jackanory Junior (2007). Jeremy was married to Gillie. Jeremy died on 4 August 2024 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.
- Douglas Stewart was born on 30 December 1915 in Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand. He was an actor, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and What Do We Do Now? (1945). He died on 14 February 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Megan Swann was born on 8 October 1992 in Eltham, London, England, UK.
- Richard Clutterbuck was born on 22 November 1917 in Eltham, London, England, UK. He died on 6 January 1998.
- Ernest Frederick Wallace was born to a middle class family living in west London. His father was a former lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders who had a series of financial disasters when he entered commercial life. Ernest was of independent means and entered the theatre shortly after his marriage to Ellen Rose Madeline Luff and toured in productions of "Sue" and "The Great Ruby". He progressed to theatrical management - at one time being the agent for Anna Pavolva - and then from 1918 into British silent films in supporting roles. His wife later married comedian and theatre impresario Joseph (Joe) Peterman (nee Hobinstock).
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John Hunter Blair was born on 4 August 1903 in Eltham, London, England, UK. John Hunter was a producer and editor, known for Blue Peter (1958), Bobby in France (1955) and Lucky Silver (1956). John Hunter died on 31 December 1964 in Ealing, London, England, UK.