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centenary of cinema

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
centenary of cinema

Commemorated ati

Cecil Hepworth - NW1

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

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Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell CBE (1901 - 1995) film critic who inspired generations of film-m...

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Lindsay Anderson

Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994), fi...

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Robert W. Paul - EC1

Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996. Robert W. Paul (1869 - 1943) Bri...

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Sir Alec Guinness - WC2

Commemorating the centenary of cinema 1996. Sir Alec Guinness in recognition...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
centenary of cinema

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Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing, star of Hammer Films and many other motion pictures, 'A true g...

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Richard Todd

Todd attended the unveiling.

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Southgate Odeon

On this site stood the Odeon cinema 1935 - 1982 a classic example of the Odeo...

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Other Subjects

Mary Millington

Mary Millington

Model and porn actor. Born Mary Ruth Quilter, she came to fame in the long-running soft-porn film 'Come Play With Me'. However, she soon found herself being replaced by younger models, which led to...

Person, Cinema

1 memorial
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor

Actor. Born Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor of American parents at Heathwood, 8 Wildwood Road, Hampstead. Fearing the outbreak of war, her family moved to America in 1939. She was seen as a potential fil...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre

1 memorial
Hammer Films

Hammer Films

Film company famous for its Gothic horror genre. Prominent during the 1960/70s. Peter Cushing and Sir Chistopher Lee starred in many of their Dracula and Frankenstein films. It ceased production in...

Media, Cinema

1 memorial
My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears. The story concerns Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion a...

Media, Cinema

1 memorial
Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

Written by Noel Coward this play, first performed in Manchester in 1941, moved in 1942 to The Duchess Theatre where it was performed 1997 times, a record at the time. It was filmed by David Lean i...

Fiction, Cinema, Fictional, Theatre

1 memorial

Previously viewed

London Bridge

London Bridge

Four stone bridges have spanned the Thames at this point. The first was built in about 1210 and lasted right through the medieval period. This was the one that had the spikes and is shown in some d...

Building, Transport, USA

25 memorials
Westminster School

Westminster School

Public school. Its full name is The Royal College of St Peter in Westminster. Pupils were taught here from at least the 12th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was re-founded by Q...

Place, Education

2 memorials
Festival of Britain

Festival of Britain

'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after WW2, and incidentally to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. The symbol for the Festival was designed ...

Event, Art, Cinema, Science, Tourism / Traditions

20 memorials
Eliza Yeates

Eliza Yeates

Eliza (or Elizabeth) Yeates was born Horton, daughter of William Willson Yeates. See there for information about her family. Buried in St Michaels churchyard Horton, 1 December 1834. 

Person, Children, Friend / family

1 memorial
Judy Wiseman

Judy Wiseman

Sculptor, of Nether Street, Finchley.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial