Actor, director, writer. Born Streatham.
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Simon Callow
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Charles Dickens - Cranleigh Street
In Dickens' time it was called Johnson Street. His house was number 29 though...
Film industry
Simon Callow did the unveiling honours. There seems to be a battle going on ...
Mike Leigh & Alison Steadman
Unveiled by Simon Callow who has never worked on a Leigh movie though he and ...
Mozart - WC2
Unveiled by Simon Callow, who was the first actor to play the part of Mozart ...
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Sir Noel Coward
Actor, playwright, composer, film director, author, singer. Born Helmsdale, 5 Waldegrave Road, Teddington. Died at home in Jamaica, where he was buried. Obsessed with the theatre, he was a child a...
Person, Cinema, Gender Issues, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Theatre, Jamaica
4 memorials
Dame Marie Tempest
Actress and singer. Born Mary Susan Etherington in London. She studied music in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Music, making her stage debut in 1885 in the operetta Boccaccio at the Comedy Theat...
1 memorial
Shirley Anne Field
Actor. Born Shirley Broomfield on 27 June 1936 in Forest Gate, Essex (now Greater London). She started her career as a glamour model. Laurence Olivier chose her to play the prime female role in the...
1 memorial
Humphrey Jennings
Documentary film maker. Born Suffolk. Co-founder of the Mass Observation organisation (something like current day personal blogs but with pencil and paper). In 1936 he helped organise the Surreal...
1 memorial
Michael Winner
Film director, producer and restaurant critic. Born 40 Belsize Grove. Directed 42 movies, including Death Wish in 1974, many of which were either panned or criticised for their violence and misogyn...
Person, Cinema, Food & Drink, History, Journalism / Publishing
1 memorial
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Aldersgate Trustees of the Methodist Church
Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.
2 memorials
Becky Sharp
The main character of William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair. A cynical, but delightful, social climber who uses her charms to fascinate and seduce upper-class men.
1 memorial
John Ruskin
SE24, Herne Hill, 26
The plaque is on a small plinth in the front garden. It replaces the one which was erected in 1909 on a house that was subsequently demol...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
John Milton
EC4, Bow Churchyard, St Mary-le-Bow Church
A London Inheritance has old photos and more information about this church.
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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