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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Other Subjects

First cinema in Britain

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.

Event, Cinema, France

2 memorials
Will Hay

Will Hay

Comedian and actor. Born William Thomson Hay at 23 Durham Street, Stockton-on-Tees. His career started in music-halls and concert-parties. He went on to work with Fred Karno, developing his schoolm...

Person, Cinema, Science, Theatre, Australia, New Zealand, USA

1 memorial
Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard

Born as Harry Webb in India. Starred with Olivier in Dave Clark's Time. The Shadows were his backing group.

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, India

2 memorials
Robert Donat

Robert Donat

Actor. Born in Manchester.

Person, Cinema

1 memorial
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Film director who settled in London and made many of his films here. Born New York City.  The first film made in England was Lolita in 1962.  He lived close to the film studios at Elstree and rarel...

Person, Cinema, Seriously Famous, USA

1 memorial

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Hanbury fountain

Hanbury fountain

SW19, Parkside

There is another fountain in a similar style in St Pancras: Thornton's Fountain, erected in 1877.

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators
Rodney Cyril Alban Fitzgerald, MA, Deputy

Rodney Cyril Alban Fitzgerald, MA, Deputy

Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Betty Afua Agyapong

Betty Afua Agyapong

Betty Afua Agyapong was born on 3 April 1955. She died, aged 32 years, in the King's Cross Underground Station fire on 18 November 1987 and was buried on 5 December 1987 in the Royal Borough of Ken...

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
Sarah Elizabeth Simmons

Sarah Elizabeth Simmons

Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 12. Buried in grave 1 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.

Person, Children, Tragedy

1 memorial
Carnegie Hero Fund Trust

Carnegie Hero Fund Trust

From the Trust's website: "In 1886, over 20 years before the Carnegie Hero Fund was established in the UK, {Andrew} Carnegie heard about the death of a Dunfermline boy who drowned in an heroic atte...

Group, Benefactor

1 memorial