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Post by ARENA on Nov 12, 2018 7:32:36 GMT
Robert Wentworth John Holness (12 November 1928 – 6 January 2012) was an English radio and television presenter. Holness was born in Vryheid, Natal, South Africa. When he was seven, his family moved to the UK, initially to Herne Bay, Kent where his grandfather Nathaniel was brought up, then later to Ashford, Kent. Holness was the subject of an urban myth, claimed to have been initiated in the 1980s by broadcaster Stuart Maconie who, writing for the New Musical Express in a section called 'Believe It Or Not', said that Holness had played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song, "Baker Street". (The actual performer was Raphael Ravenscroft.) Tommy Boyd, among others, has disputed Maconie's claim to authorship of the rumour.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 13, 2018 8:33:37 GMT
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His coffin is inscribed thus: Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 14, 2018 7:21:57 GMT
Michael Anthony Robbins (14 November 1930 – 11 December 1992, Caterham in Surrey) was a British actor known for his television work, including his role as Arthur Rudge in sitcom On the Buses (1969-72). Born in London, Robbins was a bank clerk who became an actor after appearing in amateur dramatic performances in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 15, 2018 8:27:14 GMT
Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was an English writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books. Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in Bury, Lancashire, the second child of the Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn (Classics teacher at the Bury Grammar School) and his wife Clara (née Crompton).Richmal Crompton's archives are held at Roehampton University, London and at Wat Tyler Country Park, Pitsea, where some family lived.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 16, 2018 7:19:20 GMT
Franklin Roy "Frank" Bruno MBE (born 16 November 1961) is a British former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC heavyweight championship in 1995. Altogether, he won 40 of his 45 contests. Like Henry Cooper before him, Bruno has remained a popular celebrity with the British public since his ring career ended and still appears regularly in pantomime.He supports West Ham whilst also having an affinity for Aberdeen.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 17, 2018 7:40:28 GMT
Jack Vettriano OBE born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and later became an apprentice mining engineer. Vettriano did not take up painting as a hobby until the 1970s, when a girlfriend bought him a set of watercolours for his 21st birthday.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 18, 2018 7:39:13 GMT
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (18 November 1906–2 October 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959. Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 19, 2018 7:47:07 GMT
Alan Young (born Angus Young 19 November 1919) is a British actor best known for his role as Wilbur Post in the television series Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney films, TV series and video games. During the 1940s and 1950s, he starred on his own shows on radio and television. Young was born Angus Young in North Shields, Northumberland.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 20, 2018 8:40:29 GMT
Bernard Horsfall (born 20 November 1930) is a British actor. Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. He has appeared in many television and film roles including: Guns at Batasi (1964), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980), Gandhi (1982), The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984), The Hound of the Baskervilles (ITV, 1988) and Braveheart (1995).He died on 28 January 2013 on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Horsfall is survived by his wife Jane, their daughters Hannah and Rebecca, five grandchildren and his sister. His son Christian died in 2012
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Post by ARENA on Nov 21, 2018 8:11:04 GMT
Ted Ray (21 November 1905 – 8 November 1977) was an English comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. By the 1970s, he regularly appeared as a panellist on comedy game shows. He also worked on British children's television. Ray supported numerous charitable organisations throughout his life. In 1952 he went to Korea to entertain British troops serving there during the Korean War. Ray was born Charles Olden in Wigan, Lancashire, England. His parents moved to Liverpool within days of his birth, and Liverpudlians regard him as a local. While he was a boy his parents changed their name to Olden. As a comedian of the 1940s and 1950s he demonstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show Ray's A Laugh from 1949 until 1961. A music hall comedian, Ray usually played violin badly as part of his act—first as Hugh Neek, then "Nedlo the Gypsy Violinist". He also played comedy roles in several British films—notably as the headmaster in Carry On Teacher. He is best remembered for the Sunday lunchtime radio show Ray's a Laugh, a domestic comedy in which Kitty Bluett played his wife. Other actors and actresses who featured on the show included Peter Sellers, Fred Yule, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Connor, Pat Coombs and Graham Stark; Sellers' earliest appearances predated The Goon Show by a couple of years. In 1940 and 1950 Ray was King Rat of the Grand Order of Water Rats.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 22, 2018 7:39:53 GMT
A. E. Matthews OBE (22 November 1869 – 25 July 1960) was an English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades, and who became known (not surprisingly) for his longevity. Matthews was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews.Matthews was still working as an actor right up until his death . He died on 25 July 1960 in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, aged 90. A Blue Plaque is displayed on his former home in Little Bushey Lane.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 22, 2018 9:45:28 GMT
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
This is also the day of the Patron Saint of musicians, St Cecilia.
The Simon and Garfunkle song Cecilia, is about not being able to write any more, cast in the mould of a spurned lover song: it has a happy ending:
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Post by ARENA on Nov 23, 2018 7:14:23 GMT
Maxwell Caulfield (born 23 November 1959) is a British film, stage, and television actor who is based in the United States, known for his roles as Michael Carrington in Grease 2 (1982) and as Miles Colby in The Colbys (1985–87) and its parent show Dynasty (1985–86). He has more than 70 film, stage and television credits. He starred in Ronald F. Maxwell's Gettysburg (1993)Maxwell Newby was born to Peter Newby on 23 November 1959 in Belper, Derbyshire and Oriole Rosalind (née Findlater) — although he later claimed to be a native of Glasgow, reportedly to be "more interesting". By 1965, his parents had divorced. Although not a child actor per se, aged around 7, he played "Ted" (under the name Maxwell Findlater, using his mother's maiden name) in the 1967 film, Accident. The film's screenplay was written by Harold Pinter, and the film starred Stanley Baker, Dirk Bogarde and Michael York. The actor's American stepfather, Peter Maclaine, a former Marine, reportedly kicked Caulfield out of the house at the age of 15. Caulfield became an exotic dancer at London's Windmill Theatre in order to obtain an Equity card enabling him to work as an actor. Later he got his green card through his stepfather.He reportedly took his stage surname, Caulfield, from the character in J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 10:24:47 GMT
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff (/ˈkɑːrlɒf/), was an English actor who was primarily known for his roles in horror films. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939). He also appeared as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932).
In non-horror roles, he is best-known for narrating and as the voice of Grinch in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966). For his contribution to film and television, Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 24, 2018 7:46:53 GMT
Pete Best (born 24 November 1941) is a British musician, principally known as the original drummer in The Beatles. He was born in the city of Madras, which was then part of British India. After Best's mother, Mona Best (1924–1988), moved to Liverpool in 1945, she opened The Casbah Coffee Club in the cellar of the Bests' large house in Liverpool, which became very popular.
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