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
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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 Judith Olivia Dench in Heworth, York. Made her stage debut with the Old Vic company in 1957. Over the decades, she has performed with the Royal Shakespeare and the National Theatre comp...
Actor. Born 7 Gledhow Gardens, South Kensington as Arthur John Gielgud, great nephew to Ellen Terry. The name indicates his Lithuanian descent. A great Shakespearean actor, he is possibly best know...
Born Liverpool. West End theatre producer and chairman of Everton Football Club.
The medieval church of St Peter, Westcheap (now Cheapside) used to stand on this corner facing Cheapside. The blue information board give...
Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. His portrait comes from an 1894 card celebrating his silver wedding anniversary. It also has a portrait of his wife and of Tower Bridge.
Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Wilkins and Wilson. Born Macclesfield.
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