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British Film Institute

In 1996 the BFI erected 126 plaques across Britain to commemorate the centenary of cinema. See the pdf.

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British Film Institute

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Bob Hope

Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema, 1996 Bob Hope, actor and entertainer, ...

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Cecil Hepworth - NW1

Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 Cecil Hepworth (1874 - 1953) Brit...

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Cecil Hepworth - SE13

Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 Cecil M. Hepworth, British film p...

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Charlie Chaplin - Hanwell

The plaque is propped up behind the reception desk at Hanwell Community Centre

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Dame Barbara Windsor - Elstree and Borehamwood Station

This plaque honours Barbara Windsor MBE a comedy legend whose Borehamwood-mad...

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Other Subjects

Sir Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Beaton

Photographer, painter, interior designer and designer for stage and screen. Born 21 Langland Gardens, Hampstead. Excelling in a number of art forms he had equally catholic tastes in his affairs, wi...

Person, Cinema, Craft / Design, Photography, Seriously Famous, Theatre

3 memorials
Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. The plot centres around an elderly Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur. It explores racism, and anti-semitism in the American south. It w...

Media, Cinema

1 memorial
Gregory Augustus Daymond

Gregory Augustus Daymond

Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Augustus Daymond was born on 25 November 1920 in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana, USA. From the American Air Museum in Britain website we learn that he grew up in Ne...

Person, Armed Forces, Cinema, USA

War served, WW2
1 memorial
Lindsay Anderson

Lindsay Anderson

Film and theatre director, critic and writer, ‘This sporting Life', ‘If', ‘The Whales of August', awarded the 1955 Oscar for Best Documentary Short. Born India, died France.

Person, Cinema, Theatre, France, India

1 memorial
Lord Bernard Miles

Lord Bernard Miles

Actor and theatre manager. Born Bernard James Miles at 1 Poplar Terrace, New Road, Hillingdon. He started acting in the 1930s appearing in many of the patriotic films of WW2, and specialising in pe...

Person, Cinema, Theatre

1 memorial