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- Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder. McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.
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Daniel started as a stand-up comedian and appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act of The Year, and was a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You're Funny competition.
He is playing Simon in the long-running UK BT Broadband TV advertisement series.- Lizzy McInnerny was born in 1960 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Rowing with the Wind (1988), The Crown (2016) and Nearly Famous (2007).
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Helen Atkinson Wood was born on 14 March 1955 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Flushed Away (2006), KYTV (1989) and The Young Ones (1982).- He was born to Eugenie (Jenny) Gulesserian, daughter of Hrant Gulesserian, an Armenian textile trader from Western Armenia/Eastern Turkey, who set up a branch of the family business when he moved from Istanbul to Manchester in 1904. Nothing is known of David's father other than that he was a married man with whom Jenny had a brief affair. Afraid of bringing disgrace on the family, she never told her father that she was pregnant, and she and her younger sister secretly arranged for David to be adopted.
He was adopted by Jim and Joyce Dickinson at the age of three months, and only accidentally discovered that he was adopted when he found his adoption papers at age eleven. He traced his birth mother to Jersey, and conducted a correspondence with her for 20 years before her death, but they never actually met as she did not wish to disturb her new family. It was only after her death that he met his half-brother, who did not know until then that David existed.
After leaving school he went into textile trading. He married well-known African-Welsh cabaret singer Lorne Lesley in 1968 and was her manager. They have two children.
In 2006 he participated in the BBC's celebrity genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are? (2004) and traced relatives in the UK and Turkey. - Producer
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Nigel Williams was born on 20 January 1948 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for Elizabeth I (2005), The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991) and Screen Two (1984). He has been married to Suzan Harrison since 2 June 1972. They have three children.- Jean Challis was born on 22 May 1934 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dear John.... (1986), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) and The Battle of St. George Without (1969).
- Christopher Priest was born on 14 July 1943 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Prestige (2006), Futouristic and One Million Times (2017). He was married to Leigh Kennedy and Lisa Tuttle. He died on 2 February 2024 in England.
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Diana Darvey was born on 21 April 1945 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for El arte de no casarse (1966), Carry on Behind (1975) and ...And Mother Makes Five (1974). She was married to Ralph Barker and Terry Gittings. She died on 11 April 2000 in Redhill, Surrey, England, UK.- Malcolm Corden was born in 1951 in Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is married to Margaret Corden. They have three children.
- Gordon Alcock was born on 22 March 1933 in Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Coronation Street (1960) and Seaforth (1994). He died on 6 February 2006 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK.
- Henry Knowles was born on 2 January 1942 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Wars of the Roses (1965), Flesh and Blood (1980) and The First Lady (1968).
- Lyonel Watts was born on 5 September 1884 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Mr. Justice Raffles (1921), Outward Bound (1930) and So Well Remembered (1947). He died on 16 December 1958 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
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John Rackham was born Alan Morris in Cheadle, Cheshire in the north of England in 1958, the son of engineer John Morris and his wife Jean. After majoring in Drama, he trained as a teacher and worked as a van driver, archaeological assistant and drama advisor to Northeast Surrey Youth and Community Service before starting the Mad Mole Theatre Company at the age of 27. This company performed a small-scale theatre version of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' which was described by a member of the Joseph Conrad Society as 'The yardstick by which we judge all other adaptations of Conrad's work.'
The collapse of his marriage brought this first theatre company to an end and it was not until 1996 that he formed his second company, Rogues' Yarn Productions. Rogues' Yarn has performed successfully at the San Francisco Fringe Festival annually since 2001. In 2002, he began working on British independent films on a regular basis and this lead to his meeting with Ross Boyask, the director of Left for Dead (2004).
He began directing zero budget shorts in 2002 and in 2005 produced and directed his first digital feature Bloodmyth (2006).- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Denis Mitchell was born on 1 August 1911 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for In Prison (1957), The House on the Beach (1965) and The Entertainers (1964). He was married to Linda Webster, Betty Horne and Sally Bates. He died in 1990.- Ethel Manners was born on 8 September 1899 in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She was an actress, known for My Sister and I (1956). She died on 28 August 1956 in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, UK.