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1. David Hume

David Hume was born on May 7, 1711 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. David died on August 25, 1776 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

2. George Albert Smith

Director | Phantom Ride

Along with his better-known French counterpart Georges Méliès George Albert Smith was one of the first filmmakers to explore fictional and fantastic themes, often using surprisingly sophisticated special effects. His background was ideal--an established portrait photographer, he also had a ...

3. Robert W. Paul

Producer | The Butterfly

Robert Paul was an English scientific instrument maker, pioneer of film, and foremost pioneer of the British film industry in its formative years. He was born in Liverpool Road, Highbury, North London and was educated at the City & Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. He began his career working in ...

4. Cecil M. Hepworth

Producer | Alice in Wonderland

Born in London, England, in 1874, Cecil Hepworth was one of the founders of the British film industry, directing and producing many films from 1898 into the late 1920s. Developing an early interest in films from following his father on lecture tours about the magic-lantern, he patented several ...

5. Eugène Lauste

Director | Bullfight

Eugène Lauste was born on January 17, 1857 in Montmartre, Paris, France. He was a director, known for Bullfight (1896) and Drill of the Engineer Corps (1896). He died on June 27, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.

6. Laurence Trimble

Director | Brawn of the North

Laurence Trimble was born on February 15, 1885 in Robbinston, Maine, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Brawn of the North (1922), The Love Master (1924) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1915). He was married to Marian Constance Blackton and Jane Murfin. He died on February 8, 1954 in ...

7. John Bunny

Actor | Her Old Sweetheart

When John Bunny died the New York Times stated, "The name John Bunny will always be linked to the movies." Little did movie fans of 1915 realize that he would be completely forgotten the next year and completely omitted from many books on silent movies 70-80 years later.

Bunny was the ninth in a ...

8. Percy Stow

Director | The Love of a Nautch Girl

Percy Stow was born in 1876 in Islington, London, England, UK. He was a director, known for The Love of a Nautch Girl (1909), A Modern Cinderella (1908) and The Morganatic Marriage (1909). He died on July 10, 1919 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK.

9. Herbert Brenon

Director | Beau Geste

Herbert Brenon was born on January 13, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was a director and writer, known for Beau Geste (1926), Ivanhoe (1913) and Sorrell and Son (1927). He was married to Mrs. Herbert Brenon. He died on June 21, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

10. Johnston Forbes-Robertson

Actor | The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was an English actor and theatrical impresario that George Bernard Shaw and other critics considered to be the finest Hamlet (1913) of his generation. Forbes-Robertson had trained to be an artist and was not overly fond of acting, but he took to the boards to ...

11. William Shakespeare

Writer | The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare's birthdate is assumed from his baptism on April 25. His father John was the son of a farmer who became a successful tradesman; his mother Mary Arden was gentry. He studied Latin works at Stratford Grammar School, leaving at about age 15. About this time his father suffered an ...

12. Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Actor | King John

Herbert Beerbohm Tree was born on December 17, 1852 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for King John (1899), Henry VIII (1911) and The Tempest (1905). He was married to Lady Tree. He died on July 2, 1917 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.

13. George L. Du Maurier

Writer | Svengali

George du Maurier was an anglo-French writer and cartoonist best known for creating the character of Svengali in his 1894 novel "Trilby" and for being the father of actor-manager Sir Gerald Du Maurier, the grandfather of writer Dame Daphne Du Maurier, and the grandfather of the Llewelyn Davies boys...

14. George Pearson

Director | The Little People

A former schoolmaster at Culham College, Oxfordshire, Pearson abandoned his teaching career when he began to speculate on the educational propensities of the emerging medium of film. In 1913, he embarked on making instructive short films for London Pathé and subsequently founded his own production ...

15. Charles Bennett

Writer | Foreign Correspondent

Born just before the century turned, Charles Bennett made his writing debut as a child in 1911, fought in France during World War I while still a teen and resumed his acting career after the war's end. In 1926 he dropped acting to concentrate on being a playwright, later turning one of his most ...

16. Léon Gaumont

Producer | The First Men in the Moon

Léon Gaumont was born on May 10, 1864 in Paris, France. He was a producer and editor, known for The First Men in the Moon (1919), Images de Chine (1905) and La nuit de noces de Calino (1911). He was married to Camille Maillard. He died on August 10, 1946 in Sainte-Maxime, Var, France.

17. Geoffrey Malins

Director | London Melody

Geoffrey Malins was born on November 18, 1886 in Castle, Hastings, Sussex, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for London Melody (1930), The Girl from Downing Street (1918) and The Scourge (1922). He was married to Phyllis Ward, Ena Beaumont and Caroline Saywell. He died on February 11...

18. David Lloyd George

Writer | The First World War

David Lloyd George was born on January 17, 1863 in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The First World War (2003), Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, No. 26 (1915) and Pathé News, No. 24 (1915). He was married to Frances Stevenson and Mrs. Lloyd George. He died...

19. Henry Edwards

Actor | A Welsh Singer

Henry Edwards was born on September 18, 1882 in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for A Welsh Singer (1915), Scrooge (1935) and The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920). He was married to Chrissie White. He died on November 2, 1952 in Chobham, Surrey,...

20. Chrissie White

Actress | Comin' Thro' the Rye

Light-haired teenage actress from the early days of the British cinema, with which, for many years, she was the sole surviving link. The peak of her popularity came with Alma Taylor in the 'Tilly the Tomboy' series. She grew into a delicately pretty star, but disappointed her admirers by retiring ...

21. Alma Taylor

Actress | Trelawny of the Wells

Brown-haired, blue-eyed, round-faced British actress of great charm who started as a child in the early silents, and continued the child-like roles into her late teens. Best remembered for her roles in the long-running 'Tilly the Tomboy' series. Her output and popularity began to fall away in the ...

22. Ellen Terry

Actress | Pillars of Society

Legendary British stage actress who made a few silent film appearances. The daughter of strolling players, she was born in Coventry into an almost exclusively theatrical family. Her grandparents were actors, as were all six of her siblings. But only her son, Edward Gordon Craig, would in any way ...

23. Ivy Close

Actress | Adam Bede

Ivy Close began a dynasty that has now covered four generations of the history of Cinema and Television. She married the photographer Elwin Neame (1885-1923) and reared two sons Ronald Neame (1911-2010), a successful cinematographer, screenwriter, producer and director and Derek Neame (1915-1979), ...

24. Elwin Neame

Director | Mifanwy: A Tragedy

Elwin Neame was one of the leading photographers of his generation. He ran Elwin Neame Ltd. in Wimbledon with his brother William.

He married the popular actress Ivy Close in 1910, who bore him two sons, Ronald Neame and Derek Neame.

Elwin directed four films (scripting two of them). His remarkable ...

25. Maurice Elvey

Director | The Glad Eye

Maurice Elvey was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, the oldest son of William Clarence Folkard, an inspecting engineer, and Sarah Anna Seward Folkard (formerly Pearce). He never had a formal education, and was working on the streets of London by the age of nine after having run away...

26. Paul Burger

Writer | Origami

Paul Burger is known for Origami (2016).

27. Sidney Morgan

Director | The Minstrel Boy

Sidney Morgan was born on August 2, 1874 in Bermondsey, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Melody Maker (1937), A Window in Piccadilly (1928) and Temptation's Hour (1916). He was married to Evelyn Morgan. He died on June 11, 1946 in Boscombe, England, UK.

28. Joan Morgan

Actress | Drink

English wild rose Joan Morgan who starred in at least 34 drama, crime, comedy movies from childhood, often under the direction of her father Sidney Morgan, making her film debut in Maurice Elvey's 'The Cup Final Mystery' starring Elisabeth Risdon in 1914, followed by 'The Great Spy Raid' starring ...

29. Charles Dickens

Writer | Great Expectations

Charles Dickens' father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office, and because of this the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, Chatham. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn't earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start ...

30. George J. Folsey

Cinematographer | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Pioneer cinematographer George Folsey started out in 1914 as an errand boy with the Lasky Feature Play Company in New York. His introduction to camerawork came, when he was asked by cinematographer H. Lyman Broening to assist with post-production (tracking dissolve and fades for intercutting). By ...

31. Miles Mander

Director | The Flying Doctor

This versatile artist, who had spent his 20's in New Zealand farming sheep, became novelist, playwright and film exhibitor on his return to Britain in 1918. Eventually he would observe success with The First Born (1928), which he directed and acted in and which was based on his own novel and play. ...

32. Bryant Washburn

Actor | Captain Midnight

Bryant Washburn was born on April 28, 1889 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Captain Midnight (1942), Skinner's Baby (1917) and Till I Come Back to You (1918). He was married to Virginia Vance and Mabel Forrest. He died on April 30, 1963 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, ...

33. Harry Grindell Matthews

Self | The Death Ray

Harry Grindell Matthews was born in 1880. He died on September 11, 1941.

34. Albert Parker

Director | Blind Man's Bluff

Albert Parker was born on May 11, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Blind Man's Bluff (1936), The Branded Woman (1920) and The Black Pirate (1926). He was married to Margaret Greene and Margaret Johnston. He died on August 10, 1974 in London, England, ...

35. John Barrymore

Actor | Twentieth Century

John Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth on February 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An American stage and screen actor whose rise to superstardom and subsequent decline is one of the legendary tragedies of Hollywood. A member of the most famous generation of the most famous theatrical ...

36. Harley Knoles

Director | Oh, Baby!

Harley Knoles was born on June 4, 1880 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Oh, Baby! (1926), The Bohemian Girl (1922) and Miss Petticoats (1916). He was married to Rosina Henley. He died on January 6, 1936 in London, England, UK.

37. Gladys Cooper

Actress | My Fair Lady

Gladys Cooper was the daughter of journalist William Frederick Cooper and his wife Mabel Barnett. As a child she was very striking and was used as a photographic model beginning at six years old. She wanted to become an actress and started on that road in 1905 after being discovered by Seymour ...

38. Ivor Novello

Writer | Downhill

While his special gifts seemed to lie in music and composing, the dapper, multi-talented Welsh actor Ivor Novello (ne David Ivor Davies), with his leading-man good looks, had a strong affinity for the camera.

Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1893, he was the son of a tax-collector father and a well-known ...

39. Josef von Sternberg

Director | The Devil Is a Woman

Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...

40. Guy Newall

Actor | Beauty and the Beast

Guy Newall was born on May 25, 1885 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Beauty and the Beast (1922), The Boat from Shanghai (1931) and Fox Farm (1922). He was married to Dorothy Batley and Ivy Duke. He died on February 25, 1937 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.

41. Hal Young

Cinematographer | Burn 'Em Up Barnes

Hal Young was born in 1890 in England. He was a cinematographer, known for Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921), Fox Farm (1922) and Love on the Spot (1932). He died in 1970 in Hertfordshire, England, UK.

42. Ivy Duke

Actress | Beauty and the Beast

Ivy Duke was born on June 9, 1896 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Beauty and the Beast (1922), Fox Farm (1922) and A Maid of the Silver Sea (1922). She was married to Guy Newall. She died on November 8, 1937 in London, England, UK.

43. W.P. Kellino

Director | The Poisoned Diamond

W.P. Kellino was born on November 30, 1873 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Poisoned Diamond (1933), Lend Me Your Wife (1935) and The Mating of Marcus (1924). He was married to Blanche Kellino. He died on December 31, 1957 in Edgware, Middlesex, ...

44. Freddie Young

Cinematographer | Lawrence of Arabia

Freddie Young was a British cinematographer. He is best known for his work on David Lean's films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.

Young was an cinematographer on 130 films, including ...

45. Betty Balfour

Actress | Champagne

Betty Balfour was born on March 27, 1903 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and producer, known for Champagne (1928), Squibs (1935) and Squibs' Honeymoon (1923). She was married to Jimmy Campbell. She died on November 4, 1977 in Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK.

46. Harry F. Millarde

Director | The Town That Forgot God

Harry F. Millarde was born on November 12, 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Town That Forgot God (1922), My Friend the Devil (1922) and The Money Gulf (1915). He was married to June Caprice. He died on November 2, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.

47. Percy Marmont

Actor | The Clean Heart

Tall, debonair British matinée idol Percy Marmont first acted on stage in 1900. As a romantic lead from 1916, he made his screen debut while touring South Africa with a theatrical troupe in De Voortrekkers (1916). From there, the players went on to Australia (where Marmont made a second film, The ...

48. Lauderdale Maitland

Actor | Ivanhoe

Lauderdale Maitland was born in 1878 in Merton, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Rebecca the Jewess (1913), What's Bred... Comes Out in the Flesh (1916) and The Threefold Tragedy (1922). He was married to Janet Alexander and Sarah Gertrude Tomlinson. He died on February 28, 1929 in ...

49. Clive Brook

Actor | Cavalcade

Born in London, England to Charlotte Mary (opera singer) and George Alfred Brook. He was educated privately. Stage experience included: "Oliver Twist", "Voysey Inheritence", "If I were King", "Importance of Being Ernest", Fair and Warmer", "Over Sunday", "Clothes and the WOman", and many others. ...

50. Michael Balcon

Producer | The Ladykillers

Michael Balcon started in films as a distributor, then a producer from the early 1920s, helping to launch the career of Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1930s, Balcon was prominent in building up a huge annual production programme of films for both Gainsborough and Gaumont-British. Head of MGM-British, ...

51. Victor Saville

Director | The Faithful Heart

An art dealer's son, Victor Saville was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham. He served with the London Rifles in the British Army during World War I, was wounded by a mortar shell at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and invalided out the following year. His first involvement with the ...

52. Alfred Hitchcock

Director | Psycho

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...

53. John Stuart

Actor | Superman

John Stuart was born on July 18, 1898 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman (1978), Number 17 (1932) and Hindle Wakes (1931). He was married to Barbara Markham, Muriel Angelus and Jeanne Lagrene. He died on October 17, 1979 in London, England, UK.

54. Virginia Valli

Actress | A Lady of Quality

Virginia got her start with a Milwaukee stock company and also did some film work with Essanay Studios in 1917 Chicago. Back in the theater, it would be 3 more years before she was brought out to Hollywood to act as leading lady to Bert Lytell. Virginia would continue to appear in films throughout ...

55. Herbert Wilcox

Producer | Victoria the Great

Herbert Wilcox was born on April 19, 1890 in West Norwood, London, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Victoria the Great (1937), Spring in Park Lane (1948) and The Loves of Robert Burns (1930). He was married to Anna Neagle, Maud Violet Bower and Dorothy Brown. He died on May 15...

56. Dorothy Gish

Actress | Nell Gwyn

Dorothy Gish was born into a broken family where her restless father James Lee Gish was frequently absent. Mary Robinson McConnell a.k.a. Mary Gish, her mother, had entered into acting to make money to support the family. As soon as Dorothy and her sister Lillian Gish were old enough, they became ...

57. Ronald Colman

Actor | A Double Life

British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he discovered amateur theatre. He intended to attend Cambridge and become an engineer, but his father's ...

58. George Ridgwell

Director | A Gamble in Lives

George Ridgwell was born on October 29, 1867 in Woolwich, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for A Gamble in Lives (1920), The Sword of Damocles (1920) and Don't Blame Your Children (1922). He died on April 3, 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.

59. Jack E. Cox

Cinematographer | The Lady Vanishes

Jack E. Cox was born on July 26, 1896 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for The Lady Vanishes (1938), Blackmail (1929) and Heart's Desire (1935). He died on July 29, 1960 in Surrey, England, UK.

60. William Shenton

Cinematographer | Hindle Wakes

William Shenton is known for Fanny Hawthorne (1927), A Broken Romance (1929) and The Scarlet Daredevil (1928).

61. Estelle Brody

Actress | Hindle Wakes

Estelle Brody was born on August 15, 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Fanny Hawthorne (1927), Anne of Green Gables (1952) and Kitty (1929). She died on June 3, 1995 in La Vallette, Malta.

62. Lillian Hall-Davis

Actress | The Ring

Lilian Hall Davis was born June 23, 1898, in Mile End, London, England, the daughter of a London cab driver. For publicity purposes, she changed the spelling of her name to to the tonier Lillian Hall-Davis and reported her birthplace as the more fashionable Hampstead, London. She began acting in ...

63. Géza von Bolváry

Director | Opernball

Géza von Bolváry was born on December 26, 1897 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and actor, known for Opernball (1939), Frühjahrsparade (1934) and Zwischen Strom und Steppe (1939). He was married to Helene von Bolvary. He died on August 10, 1961 in Rosenheim, ...

64. Arnold Ridley

Actor | Dad's Army

Young Arnold Ridley was forced to give up a budding acting career and turn to writing. He hit the jackpot with 'The Ghost Train' which was a great West End success, and has been filmed several times. This was followed by a number of other plays during the 1920s and 1930s. In later life he returned ...

65. Anthony Asquith

Director | The Browning Version

British film director Anthony Asquith was born on November 9, 1902, to H.H. Asquith, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his second wife. A former home secretary and the future leader of the Liberal Party, H.H. Asquith served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1908-1916 and was ...

66. A.V. Bramble

Actor | The Laughing Cavalier

Albert Victor Bramble was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1880. He became a well-known classical stage performer, beginning in 1900. In addition, he appeared in quite a few films, first for the B&C Film Company in 1914, where he stayed until the late 1920s. He was also a producer and director, and ...

67. Adrian Brunel

Director | Elstree Calling

Producer/director Adrian Brunel was a major director in England during the 1920s and 1930s. He founded Minerva Films in partnership with actor Leslie Howard, but his career started to fade during World War II. He later founded the London Film Society, an organization dedicated to eliminating ...

68. Mabel Poulton

Actress | The Old Curiosity Shop

Mabel Poulton was born in London in 1901. She began working as a Stenographer and entered film as an actress by chance, her first role was in George Pearson's Nothing Else Matters (1920) starring Betty Balfour at Welsh-Pearson studios. Thereafter she starred in many silent film dramas, often ...

69. David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...

70. John Longden

Actor | Blackmail

John Longden was born on November 11, 1900 in the West Indies. He was an actor and writer, known for Blackmail (1929), Quatermass 2 (1957) and Quinneys (1927). He was married to Jean Jay. He died on May 26, 1971 in London, England, UK.

71. Chili Bouchier

Actress | The Silver King

Glamorous, dark-eyed leading lady, touted as Britain's answer to Hollywood's Clara Bow, the 'It Girl'. She was also sometimes referred to as 'Britain's first female sex symbol', reflected by having her initially cast as vamps or flappers. Born Dorothy Irene Boucher, she started out as a typist and ...

72. Jack Cohen

Self | Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood

73. Ewald André Dupont

Writer | Varieté

German film director E.A. Dupont was an influential critic and newspaper columnist before breaking into the film industry. He wrote several screenplays and worked as a story editor for Richard Oswald before turning to directing in 1917. Over the next eight years Dupont became a respected exponent ...

74. Jameson Thomas

Actor | It Happened One Night

On the British stage from his teens, he first appeared as a half-breed boy in "The Squaw Man." His screen debut was in 1923 in the film "Chu Chin Chow." Dissatisfied with the British film industry, he moved to Hollywood and played a number of minor roles up to the time of his death. On the English ...

75. Charles Laughton

Actor | Witness for the Prosecution

Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). ...

76. Anna May Wong

Actress | The Toll of the Sea

Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, California, to laundryman Wong Sam Sing and his wife, Lee Gon Toy. A third-generation American, she managed to have a substantial acting career during a deeply racist time when the ...

77. Arnold Bennett

Writer | Battling Jane

Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Battling Jane (1918), Sacred and Profane Love (1921) and Piccadilly (1929). He was married to Marie Marguerite Soulé. He died on March 27, 1931 in London, England, UK.

78. Anny Ondra

Actress | Blackmail

Anny Ondra was a Polish-Czech-Austrian-German-French singer and a film and stage actress. As a child she lived in Prague, where her father was a colonel in the Austro-Hungarian army. After graduating from convent school in Prague, she studied to be an actress with Professor Bor. She was already a ...

79. Dallas Bower

Producer | The Path of Glory

Dallas Bower was born on July 25, 1907 in London, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for The Path of Glory (1934), The Tempest/II (1939) and Julius Caesar (1938). He died on October 18, 1999 in London, England, UK.

80. Ronald Neame

Producer | Great Expectations

A British filmmaker who, over the years, worked as assistant director, cinematographer, producer, writer and ultimately director, Ronald Neame was born on April 23, 1911. His father, Elwin Neame, was a film director and his mother, Ivy Close, was a film star. During the 1920s, he started working at...

81. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

82. Joan Barry

Actress | Rich and Strange

Joan Barry was born in 1903. At the age of 15 she had her first small part in "Luck of the Navy". Some of her talking pictures were: "Head Waiter", A Man of Mayfair (1931) and Rome Express (1932), while her her first title role was in the film Sally Bishop (1932).

Joan is likely to be remembered ...

83. John Grierson

Director | Drifters

John Grierson was born on April 26, 1898 in Kilmadock, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Drifters (1929), Child's Play (1954) and Brandy for the Parson (1952). He was married to Margaret Grierson. He died on February 19, 1972 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK.

84. Charles Rosher

Cinematographer | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Among the foremost technical innovators in his field, a charter member of the American Society of Cinematographers, English-born Charles Rosher had initially aimed for a diplomatic career. Fortunately, he chose a different career option and attended lessons in photography at the London Polytechnic ...

85. Madeleine Carroll

Actress | The 39 Steps

The original ash-blonde "iceberg maiden", Madeleine Carroll was a knowing beauty with a confident air, the epitome of poise and "breeding". Not only did she have looks and allure in abundance, but she had intellectual heft to go with them, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Birmingham ...

86. Monty Banks

Actor | Horse Shoes

Monty Banks was a short, stocky but somehow debonair Italian-born comic actor, later also writer and director. In the US from 1914, he first appeared on stage in musical comedy and cabaret. By 1917 he was working as a dancer in New York's Dominguez Cafe. After this he turned to films, acting and ...

87. Lily Morris

Soundtrack | Radio Parade of 1935

Lily Morris was born on September 30, 1882 in Holborn, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), I Thank You (1941) and A Little of What You Fancy (1968). She was married to Archibald McDougall. She died on October 3, 1952 in London, England, UK.

88. Walter C. Mycroft

Producer | Spring Meeting

Walter C. Mycroft was born on April 4, 1890 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Three Wise Brides (1941), Banana Ridge (1942) and My Wife's Family (1941). He died on June 12, 1959 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.

89. Abel Gance

Writer | La roue

Born an illegitimate son of a wealthy physician, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Francoise Perethon. He was raised by his mother and her boyfriend, who later became her husband, Adolphe Gance. Pressured by his parents, he began his working career as a lawyer's clerk in hopes of achieving ...

90. Jules Kruger

Cinematographer | Golgotha

Jules Kruger was born on July 12, 1891 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. He was a cinematographer, known for Behold the Man (1935), La fin du monde (1931) and End of the World (1931). He died on December 13, 1959 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

91. Vanda Gréville

Actress | Der Ball

Vanda Gréville was born on January 10, 1908 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Der Ball (1931), Le bal (1931) and A Gentleman of Paris (1931). She was married to Edmond T. Gréville. She died on December 26, 1997 in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England, UK.

92. Lilian Harvey

Actress | Die Drei von der Tankstelle

Lilian Harvey was born on January 19th, 1906 in London. Her mother was English and her father was German. When she was eight her family moved to Berlin shortly before the outbreak of WW1. She spent much of the war at school in Switzerland where she broadened her knowledge of languages and classical...

93. Sidney Gilliat

Writer | State Secret

Sidney Gilliat, the English director, screenwriter, and producer, was born on February 15, 1908 in Edgely, Cheshire, England. He began his screen-writing career in the silent movie era, writing inter-titles, going uncredited for his contributions to Honeymoon Abroad (1928), Champagne (1928), and ...

94. Alexander Korda

Director | The Private Life of Don Juan

One of a large group of Hungarian refugees who found refuge in England in the 1930s, Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. He was a major, if controversial, figure and acted as a guiding force behind the British film industry of the 1930s and continued to ...

95. J. Stuart Blackton

Director | The Glorious Adventure

In the US from the age of 10, he first worked as a journalist-illustrator for the New York World. Interviewing Thomas A. Edison, he so impressed the inventor with his drawings that Edison suggested he allow some of them to be photographed by the Kinetograph camera. The result was a short film, ...

96. Humphrey Jennings

Director | Fires Were Started

Humphrey Jennings, born in 1907, was a writer, set designer, painter, editor and, perhaps most famously, a director of ground-breaking documentary films for the renowned GPO film unit: Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), films that changed the face of...

97. Alberto Cavalcanti

Director | O Canto do Mar

Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in...

98. Robert Wiene

Director | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene was born on April 24, 1873 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and The Knight of the Rose (1925). He died on July 17, 1938 in Paris, France.

99. Carol Reed

Director | The Third Man

Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life. ...

100. Myra Hess

Soundtrack | Lucky Bastard

Myra Hess was born on February 25, 1890 in London, England, UK. She was a composer, known for Lucky Bastard (2014), These Two Hands (1949) and Myra Hess (1945). She died on November 26, 1965 in London, England, UK.