Person    | Male  Born 8/9/1925  Died 24/7/1980

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

Goon and comic actor. Born Portsmouth to a couple of variety entertainers. The family moved to the N6 house when Sellers was 10. He was staying at the Dorchester Hotel when he suffered a heart attack and died at the Middlesex Hospital. For Sellers' London see Londonist.

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Peter Sellers

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Last Goon Show

The Camden Palace was home to the Goon Show through the 1950s.

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Peter Sellers

This was the first plaque erected by the Dead Comics Society. From BCS: "A mo...

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Spike's statue - Goons

This little group shows Secombe, Milligan and Sellers, holding "Goons" script...

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The Goon Show

{Caricatures of the four comedians, followed by:} The Goon Show, 1951-1960, f...

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Barbara Everest

Barbara Everest

Film actor. Born in Southfields, London.  Her career spanned over fifty years. Played Elizabeth the servant in Gaslight (1944). Her day of birth is given as 19 or 9, depending on source.

Person, Cinema, Theatre

1 memorial
Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

Actor. Born as William Henry Pratt at the house with the plaque. His acting career began in the theatre in Canada, where he adopted his stage name. Arriving in Hollywood he appeared in dozens of si...

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

1 memorial
Sir Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed

Born Daisyfield, West Hill, Wandsworth. Film director, best known for The Third Man (1949), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and Oliver! (1968). Knighted in 1953. Illegitimate son of the actor-prod...

Person, Cinema

1 memorial
Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo

Film director. Born Paris to an anarchist father. Vigo's two important films are Zero for Conduct (1933) and L'Atalante (1934). Vigo's anarchism is discussed at Libcom. Died Paris.

Person, Cinema, Politics & Administration, France

1 memorial
Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson

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 '...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous

1 memorial

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Emile Zola

Emile Zola

French novelist, playwright, journalist. Born Paris but when he was three the family moved to Aix-en-Provence where he was brought up and where he became friends with Paul Cézanne . When he was 18 ...

Person, Literature, France

1 memorial
Grosvenor Hotel - head 07 - Queen Victoria

Grosvenor Hotel - head 07 - Queen Victoria

SW1, Buckingham Palace Road, Grosvenor Hotel

This 1860 building, by architect James Knowles Snr, is studded with many portrait busts of which we believe only these 14 are representat...

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