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"...
Daughter of Judy Garland by her third husband, Sidney Luft. She has worked in show business and published a memoir.
Actor. Born Richard Walter Jenkins at Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Wales. He was adopted by his English teacher Philip Burton, and took his surname. His first theatrical success was in Christopher Fry's 'The L...
Famous vampire created by Stoker as the eponymous hero (?) of his 1897 novel.
English actor. Born into a theatrical family, she began acting as a child. She was the first to play the title role in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, beginning in 1904. Died Hamilton Road, Ealing.
Actor. Born at 62 Potter Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. In an extensive career on stage, television and cinema (he appeared in over 200 films), he specialised in villainous parts such as Blofeld...
Leyton Town Hall Grade II listed building, designed by John Johnson in a rich eclectic style after a competition involving over thirty en...
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Tubby Hayes, 1935 - 1973, jazz musician, lived here. The Heritage Foundation Amaninahurry.london
Previously known as the Performing Rights Society. They have also erected plaques to Squeeze, Jethro Tull and Blur.
London's BBC local radio station. It targets a mainstream audience, broadcasting across Greater London and beyond,
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