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Post by ARENA on Jul 22, 2017 7:05:29 GMT
Jill Adams (born 22 July 1930, London - died 13 May 2008, Portugal)began life as Jill Siggins. She started modelling, only to be 'discovered' and begin an acting career that spanned two decades. Her most notable films were comedies, at which she excelled, such as Doctor at Sea, Brothers in Law and The Green Man, in which she starred with Alastair Sim and George Cole. She also did some stage and radio work. She had a brief marriage to Jim Adams, a young American navy yeoman, which resulted in the birth of a daughter, Tina. However, the union did not last and Jill pursued her acting in Europe, the USA and Australia. In 1957 she married the well-known BBC TV and radio personality Peter Haigh, and had a second daughter, Peta Louise. In the early 1970s, the whole family moved to the Algarve, in southern Portugal, where they ran a small hotel for several years in the village of Albufeira.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 23, 2017 7:46:31 GMT
Edward Maurice Charles "Eddie" Marsan (born 1968) is an English actor, known for his roles in the films Gangster No. 1, Mission: Impossible III, Sixty Six, V for Vendetta, Hancock, Happy-Go-Lucky, Sherlock Holmes, and War Horse. Marsan was born in Stepney, London to a working class family; his father was a lorry driver and his mother a school dinner lady and teacher's assistant.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 24, 2017 7:13:40 GMT
Onm this day,Heinz was born Heinz Henry George Schwarz in Detmold, but from the age of seven was brought up in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. His German father was killed during World War II and his mother decided to relocate to England. Heinz was influenced by the US singer Eddie Cochran and played in a local Eastleigh group, the Falcons, in the 1950s. Working in a Southampton grocery shop Heinz came to the attention of record producer Joe Meek, becoming his protégé. Meek styled Heinz's image, which included persuading him to peroxide his hair. Heinz was a member of the Tornados, famous for their multi-million selling hit "Telstar".
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Post by ARENA on Jul 25, 2017 6:43:42 GMT
Denis King (born 25 July 1939, Hornchurch, Essex) is an English Ivor Novello award-winning composer, singer and actor. As a writer he composed music for the British television series The Adventures of Black Beauty, Within These Walls, Lovejoy and Worzel Gummidge amongst others.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 26, 2017 6:32:33 GMT
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 27, 2017 6:17:35 GMT
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (/hɨˈlɛər ˈbɛlək/; French: [ilɛʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters, and political activist.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 28, 2017 6:27:34 GMT
Helen Beatrix Potter 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Though Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolors of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District, which at that time was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to design spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne, until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 24 children's tales. She died of pneumonia and heart disease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 28, 2017 15:13:39 GMT
^^^I was given loads of her books as a child and I never liked any of them.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 29, 2017 6:33:41 GMT
Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English actress. Keen is possibly best known for her starring roles in the British TV drama Doctors which she starred as Julia Parsons) from 2003-2012. She is also known for starring in the 1970s comedy series The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers. Keen has one daughter, actress Melissa Greenwood, from her marriage with actor Paul Greenwood.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2017 7:48:50 GMT
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Post by marispiper on Jul 29, 2017 8:24:01 GMT
My friend is travelling there today. Her grandfather was killed on the first day of the battle.
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Post by marispiper on Jul 29, 2017 8:25:10 GMT
Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English actress. Keen is possibly best known for her starring roles in the British TV drama Doctors which she starred as Julia Parsons) from 2003-2012. She is also known for starring in the 1970s comedy series The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers. Keen has one daughter, actress Melissa Greenwood, from her marriage with actor Paul Greenwood. A carefully selected photo A! She is gorgeous though.
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Post by goldelox on Jul 29, 2017 9:01:48 GMT
Diane Keen (born 29 July 1946) is an English actress. Keen is possibly best known for her starring roles in the British TV drama Doctors which she starred as Julia Parsons) from 2003-2012. She is also known for starring in the 1970s comedy series The Cuckoo Waltz and Rings on Their Fingers. Keen has one daughter, actress Melissa Greenwood, from her marriage with actor Paul Greenwood. A carefully selected photo A! She is gorgeous though. Your eyes are good,M. Save
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Post by ARENA on Jul 30, 2017 7:57:38 GMT
Frances de la Tour (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the British sitcom Rising Damp, and as Madame Olympe Maxime in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 31, 2017 6:43:14 GMT
Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 – 8 November 1979) was a British film and television actor, first appearing in London's West End in 1936, after two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with Sir Seymour Hicks in The Man in Dress Clothes. Tafler is best remembered for his appearances on British television alongside Sid James and Tony Hancock in the early 1960s.
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