Actor. Born Liverpool. Played vicars in a number of TV sitcoms and regulary appeared on the radio programme 'Just a Minute'. Died in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, following a fall at home.
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Derek Nimmo
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BBC Television Centre - Derek Nimmo
Derek Nimmo, 1930 - 1999. BBC and the Heritage Foundation
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Dame Gracie Fields
Entertainer. Born over a chip shop in Rochdale, Lancashire as Grace Stansfield. Worked at Gainsborough Film Studios. Gracie and her husband Archie moved from Upper Street, N1 in 1929 to The Towers...
4 memorials
Irene Handl
Comedy actor. Born 13 Leith Mansions, Paddington and grew up in St John's Wood. Began acting in her mid thirties and was almost never out of work, giving cameo performances in many British films ...
2 memorials
Graham Chapman
Comedian. Member of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Born Leicester. Went to Cambridge University and joined the Footlights Dramatic Club. After university he trained as a doctor but his comedy wr...
1 memorial
The Establishment Club
Peter Cook said this was modelled on "those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War". Lenny Bruce, Barry Humphries, ...
1 memorial
Tommy Handley
Radio comedian. Born Liverpool. Best known for the BBC radio show "ITMA - It's that man again".
1 memorial
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Rudyard Kipling
Poet and story writer. Born: Bombay, India. Died: London. See Waterloo Free Buffet. 2021: The Guardian reported some updates to English Heritage's information on Kipling: "While his children’s sto...
Person, Literature, Poetry, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, India
2 memorials
Sir Noel Coward - Sutton
SM1, Lenham Road, 56
The (unhelpfully brick-coloured) plaque is to the bottom left of the small upstairs window. Perhaps that was his bedroom.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Sir Derek Jacobi
Actor. Born Derek George Jacobi in Leytonstone. He was invited by Sir Laurence Olivier to be a founder member of the Royal National Theatre. Probably best known for playing the eponymous lead in th...
1 memorial
Samuel Nixon
Sculptor. Possibly born and brought up in London. Died at his home, Kennington Place, Kennington Common.
2 memorials
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