Group    From 1983 

Directors Guild of Great Britain

Categories: Cinema, TV & Radio

A professional organisation representing directors across all aspects of the media. It was founded by a group of leading British directors who were dissatisfied with their representation by the technical trades unions.

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Directors Guild of Great Britain

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Michael Powell

Michael Powell, 1905 - 1990, film director, lived here, 1951 - 1971. Director...

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Dame Judi Dench, CH

Dame Judi Dench, CH

Actor. Born Judith Olivia Dench in Heworth, York. Made her stage debut with the Old Vic company in 1957. Over the decades, she has performed with the Royal Shakespeare and the National Theatre comp...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, TV & Radio

1 memorial
Kenneth More

Kenneth More

Actor. Born Kenneth Gilbert More at Raeden, Vicarage Way, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Starred in many successful films of the 1950/60s, including 'Genevieve' and in heroic roles such as Dougla...

Person, Cinema, TV & Radio

1 memorial
Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear

Character actor.  Born Lancashire.  Played Mr. Salt in the 1971 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'.  Died following a fall from a horse while filming in Spain.

Person, Cinema, Humour, Theatre, TV & Radio, Spain

1 memorial
Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Actor.  Born Paddington.  Her parents are the actors Eric Thompson and Scottish actor Phyllida Law.  Married first Kenneth Branagh and then Greg Wise, both actors.

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, TV & Radio

1 memorial
Lilian Harvey

Lilian Harvey

Film actor and singer. Born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape in Hornsey. Her father, a German businessman moved the family to Magdeburg. She studied at the dance and voice school of the Berlin Opera, taki...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, France, Germany

1 memorial