Magician and past King Rat. Born Muswell Hill. Debonair magician and light comedian. General TV personality appearing on 'What's my Line?' and introducing Basil Brush to the world. Died Surrey.
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David Nixon
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Teddington Studios - David Nixon
David Nixon, 1919 - 1978, magician and past King Rat. Comic Heritage
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Louis MacNeice
Poet. Born Belfast, Northern Ireland at 2 Brookhill Avenue. Joined the BBC in 1941 as scriptwriter and producer and it was with the BBC, checking out the sound effects down a mineshaft, that he c...
1 memorial
Alan Blumlein
Electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered one of the most si...
1 memorial
Roy Porter
Historian. Born Roy Sydney Porter at Foxholes, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Published his first book 'The Making of Geology in Britain' in 1977. He was a lecturer at Cambridge and the Wellcome Institute...
1 memorial
Michael Flanders
Broadcaster, writer and performer. Born Michael Henry Flanders in Hampstead. He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, but contracted poliomyelitis and spent the rest of his life as a wheelcha...
Person, Literature, Music / songs, Theatre, TV & Radio, Wales
1 memorial
John Le Mesurier
Actor. Born John Elton Halliley in Bedford. Adopting his mother's surname, he was a supporting actor in many films of the 1950s and 1960s, but was projected to national fame as Sergeant Wilson in t...
2 memorials
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Charles Ricketts
Charles de Sousy Ricketts. Artist, illustrator, author. Half French he was born in Geneva and brought up in Switzerland, London, France. He met his life partner, Charles Shannon, on his 16th birthd...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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