Actor, playwright, author and director. Born Leslie Steven Berks in Stepney. After studying at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, he founded the London Theatre Group where he directed his own adaptations of various classics. He has adapted Poe's “Fall of the House of Usher” and “Tell-Tale Heart” for the theatre. In films and the theatre he has mainly been cast in the role of the villain.
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Steven Berkoff
Poe Unveiled by Steven Berkoff on 4 June 2011. The Flicker Club The Edgar All...
Born Warwickshire. Socialist film director. Work includes: Z-Cars (TV), Kes, The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
Actor. Born Derek George Jacobi in Leytonstone. He was invited by Sir Laurence Olivier to be a founder member of the Royal National Theatre. Probably best known for playing the eponymous lead in th...
Cinematographer. Younger brother of Thomas James Gobbett (1882-1915). David William Gobbett was born on 12 August 1884, the second of the seven children of David William Gobbert (1855-1929) and An...
Comedy actor. Born Bingfield Street, N1. David Benson's 6 minute video of David Benson's Kenneth Williams walk showing the Argyle Square area of London where Kenneth grew up. And the BBC iPlayer ha...
Imperial Studios were the studios of the British and Dominions Film Corporation (B&D), a short-lived British film production company formed by Herbert Wilcox and located at Imperial Place, Elst...
Born in London. Architect of the Houses of Parliament, after the 1834 fire. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Father of the architect Charles Barry Jnr, engineer Wolfe-Barry and th...
City of Westminster Peter Cook, 1937 - 1995, comedian and "only twin", co-founded and ran the Establishment Club here. The Heritage Fou...
Marshal of the Royal Air Force, GCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, President of the Bomber Command Association. Born London. He died, aged 92 years, on 24 October 2015 in Fakenham, Norfolk, according to his obi...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
English Heritage George Devine, 1910-1966, actor, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, 1956-1965, lived here.
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