Actor. Born John Joseph Nicholson in Neptune City, New Jersey. He has played a wide variety of characters in films inluding 'Easy Rider', 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'The Shining' (see our photo). He has had twelve Academy Award nominations, making him the most nominated male actor in history, and he has won the Best Actor Award twice.
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Jack Nicholson
Opened as the Royal Pavilion West and subjected to many name changes over the years, including: Royal West London Theatre, Marylebone Theatre, West London Theatre. Converted to a cinema in 1932. ...
Born Darjeeling, India. With her husband Laurence Olivier, she managed the St James's Theatre from 1950 to its closure in 1957. She led a vigorous but unsuccessful campaign to try and save it. Di...
Actor. Born Barabara Ann Deeks in Shoreditch. She made her west end debut in 1952, before joining Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. In the cinema she was a regular in the 'Carry On' series, appea...
Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 in the Victoria Hotel, 79 Westborough, Scarborough, Yorkshire, one of the five children of Robert Laughton (1868-1924) and Eliza Laughton (1869-1953). On t...
Person, Armed Forces, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
Edith Garrud, 1872 - 1971, the suffragette that knew jiu-jitsu lived here. Islington People's Plaque London Borough of Islington
Writer and literary adviser. Born Newcastle upon Tyne. Came to London in 1828 to attend University College and to enter Inner Temple. A good friend of Charles Dickens he published his biography in...
