Actor. Born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Snaiton, Yorkshire to an English mother and an Indian Kenyan father. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and also performed with the Royal National Theatre. He was cast in bit parts in films and television (including the soap opera Coronation Street), before winning the title role in the film 'Gandhi', for which he won best actor Oscar.
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Sir Ben Kingsley
Hannah Gordon and Ben Kingsley both appeared in "Anne Frank: The Whole Story"...
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Born Darjeeling, India. She and her husband Laurence Olivier, 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. Die...
Film producer and director. Born Herbert Sydney Wilcox at Norwood. He fought in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 and entered film production in 1922. He specialised in romantic, light-hearted films, w...
Tarquin is Laurence Olivier's film producer son by his first wife, Jill Esmond. Born 21 August 1936. Zelfa is Tarquin's wife. The picture shows Tarquin, Attenborough and Plowright at the unveil...
Artist and cartoonist. Born Cambridge and studied art. In WW2 at the start of 1942 he was in the Royal Engineers in Singapore which fell to the Japanese and he was taken prisoner and spent the rest...
Clayhall Tea House stood near here - a famous place of refreshment in the 18th century. Bow Heritage Trail
Bloomsbury House was built in 1887 for the College of Preceptors. Designed by by F. Pinches it is Listed Grade 1. The College, now call...
The NPG has some information about this engineer/founder: Born c. 1817. Died April/March 1875. He maintained a foundry in the Grove, Great Guildford Street, Southwark for much of his life. He began...
Originally founded by Ninette de Valois as the Academy of Choreographic Art. Its students are chosen purely for their dancing talent and not for any academic ability. Famous dancers and choreograph...
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