International film company. Formed in France by engineer-inventor Leon Gaumont.
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Gaumont
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Film industry
Simon Callow did the unveiling honours. There seems to be a battle going on ...
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The Flicker Club
A 'boutique' cinema club based in Stoke Newington that specialises in showing films adapted from short stories or novels. It invites surprise special guests from the worlds of entertainment and lit...
2 memorials
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Born Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Actor. George Bernard Shaw wrote his play Saint Joan with her in mind. Created Dame of the British Empire in 1931. She was married to the actor Sir Lewis Casson. Di...
2 memorials
First cinema in Britain
It was in Regent Street that a film was first played to a paying audience in Britain, whereas King's Hall Picture Palace is thought to have been the first purpose-built cinema in Britain.
2 memorials
Paul Robeson
Singer, actor (also athlete and civil rights activist). Born Princeton, New Jersey to a former slave, who educated himself to become a theologian and who had great expectations of his son, expectat...
Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
1 memorial
Jack Buchanan
Actor-manager, song-and-dance entertainer. Born Helensburgh near Glasgow. Died in the Middlesex Hospital. His ashes were scattered from the deck of a Cunard Liner in recognition of his 50+ trans...
1 memorial