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- Kue Lawrence was born on 22 April 2011 in Thornton, Colorado, USA. He is an actor, known for Beautiful Boy (2018), Atypical (2017) and Good Girls (2018).
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
London Hughes was born on 7 June 1989 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Beyonce Wants Groceries (2011), At Home with Beyonce (2011) and Untitled London Hughes Comedy.- Actor
- Writer
One of the most familiar faces in British comedy, Eric Barker got his start in show business during World War II, when he was part of the armed forces radio show "Merry Go Round". After the war the show continued, though renamed "The Waterlogged Spa", with Barker and his wife, Pearl Hackney. The show's success led to Barker's starring in other radio shows, where he achieved a rather sizable following due to his versatility at doing voices. By the mid-1950s Barker had made the move to films, and found his niche in playing variations on the busybody sticking his nose in everyone's business, or, in the case of the "Carry On" comedies, the gang's boss or some other authority figure who was usually on the receiving end of their shenanigans, most memorably in Carry on Constable (1960).- Alyce Andrece was born on 5 September 1936 in Thornton, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and Occasional Wife (1966). She died on 14 May 2005 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
- Rhae Andrece was born on 5 September 1936 in Thornton, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek (1966), Hell's Bloody Devils (1970) and Occasional Wife (1966). She died on 2 March 2009 in Northridge, California, USA.
- The dreamiest of the talented Brontë clan, Emily Jane Brontë was born in 1818. Her mother died when she was barely more than a toddler, and Emily and her younger sister, Anne, became very close. Along with their other siblings, 'Charlotte Bronte' and Branwell Bronte, they invented the make-believe kingdoms of Angria and Gondal, which occupied their lonely childhoods.
Emily never socialized well, and had few friends outside her family. In 1846 she and her sisters published a compilation of their poetry, "Poems", which was followed a year later by Emily's only novel, "Wuthering Heights". An intense and powerful novel, whose enigmatic hero Heathcliff was modeled on Emily's brother, Branwell, "Wuthering Heights" was not an immediate success like Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", but was later recognized as one of the best books of English Literature. Like her sisters, Emily published her book under a male pseudonym, Eliss Bell. In 1848, while attending the funeral of her brother Branwell, Emily caught a cold that developed quickly into the tuberculosis that would take her own life later that year. - Writer
- Producer
- Director
BAFTA voting member.
Ian Stokell was born Ian Charles Stokell on June 1, 1959 to Charles and Doreen Stokell. He spent 10 years as Managing Editor of The Washington Post's Newsbytes daily online business and technology newswire between 1991 and 2001, and wrote more than 3000 articles, many of which are still available online. He received a BA Honors in Modern Arts (History of Ideas) from Kingston University, England in 1983, and a Master of Arts in Physical Education from California State University, Chico, in 2004. He has written a top selling soccer coaching book entitled "Coaching Women's Soccer: A Revolutionary Approach To Putting The Play Back Into Practice" (2001) available from McGraw-Hill. A writer of short stories, unpublished novels, and film scripts for 25 years, he is also a singer/songwriter. An accomplished photographer. Having grown up in South London his favorite food is Indian curry, his favorite music is reggae, and his favorite colors are blue and yellow together.- Charlotte was born 1816, the third of the six children of Patrick Brontë, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Maria Branwell Brontë. After their mother's death in 1821, Charlotte and her sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, were sent to Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School, which Charlotte would later immortalize as the brutal Lowood school in "Jane Eyre". Conditions at the school were so bad that both Maria and Elizabeth became ill with consumption (tuberculosis) which killed them in 1825. Charlotte was very close to her surviving siblings, Anne Brontë, Branwell, and Emily Brontë. The children invented the imaginary kingdoms of Angria and Gondal, and spent much of their childhood writing poetry and stories about their make-believe realms. In 1846 the three sisters published a collected work of their poetry called, appropriately enough, "Poems", and in 1847 Charlotte published her most famous book, "Jane Eyre", under a male pseudonym, Currer Bell. Charlotte lost her remaining siblings within a brief time -- Branwell from alcoholism and Emily from consumption, both in 1848; Anne also from consumption in 1849. Charlotte was devastated, and became a lifelong hypochondriac. She resided in London, where she made the acquaintance and admiration of William Makepeace Thackeray. In 1854, she married Reverend A. B. Nicholls, curate of Haworth, against her father's wishes. Charlotte found she was pregnant not long after her marriage, and it was felt she would have a difficult pregnancy due to previous ill-health. She died on 31 March 1855.
- Simon Jordan was born on 24 September 1967 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. He is a producer, known for Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008), Sweeney Todd (2006) and Sky Sports World Championship Boxing (1989).
- The youngest of the talented Brontë siblings, Anne was born January 17th, 1820 to Rev. Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell Brontë. Her mother died of cancer when she was only a year old, and growing up Anne was especially close to her elder sister Emily Brontë. Along with their other sister, Charlotte Brontë and their only brother, Branwell Brontë, Anna and Emily invented the imaginary realms of Gondal and Angria, which absorbed most of their childhoods on the lonely Moors.
Despite her fragile health, Anne worked as a governess for some years before her brother, Branwell, entered the service of the same family she worked for. He was supposed to tutor the family's elder sons, but was dismissed in 1845 after having an affair with his employer's wife. Anne also resigned her position, and took up writing with her sisters, publishing "Poems" in 1846, a compilation of the Brontë girls' poetry. Encouraged by her literary success, Anne published two more novels, "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall".
After her brother Branwell and sister Emily died within three months of one another in 1848, Anne herself came down with consumption. She was taken to the seaside, which she adored, by her sole surviving sister Charlotte, in the hopes of finding a cure. Anne Brontë died at Scarborough in 1849, a victim of tuberculosis. - Actor
- Writer
Leslie Weston was born on 24 July 1896 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Betrayed (1954), Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) and Last Holiday (1950). He died on 13 October 1975 in Palma Nova, Majorca, Spain.- Dorothy Foster born around the late 1880's, an attractive English brunette star of many early melodrama, crime and comedy films for the British and Colonial Film Co often under the direction of H.O. Martinek and Sydney Northcote, she first starred in a children's film 'The Boy and His Teddy Bear' in 1910, often cast opposite action star Percy Moran in many adventure/crime thrillers most notable in the Lieutenant Daring series between 1911 and 1913, she was last seen on screen in a crime drama 'The Planter's Daughter' again co-starring with Percy Moran in 1913. Dorothy also played leading lady at the Barker Film Company in 1912.
- Mickey Finn was born on 3 June 1947 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. He died on 11 January 2003 in Croydon, London, England, UK.
- Vera Lennox was born on 22 November 1903 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921), In the Wake of a Stranger (1959) and Lassie from Lancashire (1938). She was married to Arthur Margetson. She died on 7 December 1984 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Valerie Hay was born on 8 April 1910 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for 1066: And All That (1939). She was married to Gladney Raine and John Duncan. She died on 23 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Ivy Bean was born on 8 September 1905 in Thornton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was married to Harold Gibson Bean. She died on 28 July 2010 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Frankmusik was born on 9 October 1985 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Drag Race Thailand (2018), Young Soul Rebels: I Got Soul (2009) and Frankmusik: 3 Little Words (2008).- Dickie Pride was born on 21 October 1941 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. He died on 26 March 1969 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK.
- Colin Spencer was born on 17 July 1933 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. He was married to Claire Clifton and Gillian Chapman. He died on 6 July 2023 in the UK.
- Producer
- Casting Director
- Director
Eric L'Epine Smith was born on 16 June 1903 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. He was a producer and casting director, known for While I Live (1947), Down on the Farm (1922) and The Silk Noose (1948). He died on 1 July 1993 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- H. Maligny was born in 1889 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Cornor House Burglary (1914). He died on 5 March 1921 in Clonbanin, County Cork, Ireland.
- Actress
Dora Russell was born on 3 April 1894 in Thornton Heath, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Reds (1981), The 20th Century Remembered (1981) and Women of Our Century (1984). She was married to Bertrand Russell. She died on 31 May 1986 in Porthcurno, Cornwall, England, UK.