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Post by clioseward on Mar 12, 2017 15:33:32 GMT
That's not a birthday.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 12, 2017 17:40:02 GMT
It is, kind of.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 12, 2017 17:43:26 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Mar 13, 2017 9:06:21 GMT
Teresa Mary "Tessie" O'Shea (13 March 1913 – 21 April 1995) was a Welsh entertainer and actress. Born in Cardiff to Nellie Theresa (née Carr) and James Peter O'Shea, a soldier who was the son of Irish emigrants, Tessie was reared in the British music hall tradition, appearing on stage as "The Wonder of Wales" as early as the age of six.  |
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Post by althea on Mar 13, 2017 20:31:12 GMT
Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit-and-vegetable seller. She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland. Finally she played Mrs Dale on radio. When did it end and was she the last?  I have to confess to crying while I listened to the last Mrs.Dale's Diary.The last thing Mrs. Dale said ,was,"I'll always be worried about Jim." |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 14, 2017 8:46:41 GMT
William John Owen Rowbotham MBE (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999), better known as Bill Owen, was an English actor and songwriter. Born in London, he made his first film appearance in 1944 but did not achieve lasting fame until the 1970s, when he took the starring role of Compo Simmonite in the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 14, 2017 18:22:44 GMT
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. He wrote one of the best, if not the best, and certainly the first, cosmic horror stories ever written: The Willows. He was cool-looking chap as well:  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 14, 2017 18:26:16 GMT
Sasha Grey (born Marina Ann Hantzis); March 14, 1988) is an American actress, model, author, musician, etc. I don't care much for the work for which she is best known (be careful when googling  ) but I do like her.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 15, 2017 8:52:06 GMT
David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and author. Cronenberg is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or visceral horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. His films have won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Crash (1996). It is still forbidden to show Crash in Westminster, even though it's been on TV.   |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 15, 2017 9:04:29 GMT
James Ellis (born 15 March 1931, Belfast) is an actor and stage director with a career stretching over sixty years. Originally a stage actor and director in Northern Ireland, he moved to London in the early 1960s. After gaining recognition in Great Britain through the Z-Cars (1962-78) police series on BBC1, he has appeared in many other television and film roles.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 16, 2017 10:00:26 GMT
James Bradford "Jimmy" Nail (born 16 March 1954) is an English singer-songwriter, actor, musician, film producer, film score composer and television writer. He has starred in numerous roles on television since 1983. He is 6 foot 3 inches tall and a Newcastle United F.C. supporter. He is most famous for his role as Leonard "Oz" Osborne in the hit television show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 17, 2017 8:28:05 GMT
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a ballet dancer, one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 18, 2017 9:43:09 GMT
Kenny Lynch, OBE (born 18 March 1938, Stepney, London, England) is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London. Lynch appeared in many variety shows in the 1960s. He was one of the relatively few black singers on the British pop scene in the early 1960s. Lynch grew up in Stepney, east London as one of 13 children and his sister, Gladys (stage name Maxine Daniels) was a jazz singer.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 18, 2017 12:26:04 GMT
Also (according to someone on the Fall site):  |
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Post by clioseward on Mar 18, 2017 12:34:00 GMT
100 today.
One of those people who's name has become an expression.
Vera Lynn = gin.
Can you think of any more?
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) but I do like her.