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Film, Theatre & Television
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(born 6 November, 1982) is a Ukrainian-born British actress. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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Oscar winning actor renowned for playing mostly villains and charming heels.
Born: July 3, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russia Died: 1972
The Sanders family returned to England from Russia during the Russian Revolution with the infant George, who, after studies at Brighton College and Manchester Technical College, went into the textile, then the tobacco business.
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Menhaj Huda (born 1967, Bangladesh) is a British film director and producer of Bangladeshi descent. After completeing a degree in Engineering at Oxford University, he embarked on a career in television.
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Gabrielle left Brighton College in 2003 and went on to train at Identity Drama School. She then went on to win a place at the world renowned Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York. She has since starred in Feature Films 'Shank', 'Men Don't Lie' and soon to be released 'Demons Never Die'. She will also be starring as one of the leads in a new film 'Freshers'.
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Distinguished, long-faced character actor, often of rumpled establishment figures.
Born: October 3, 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Died: May 2, 1995, Oxford
After leaving Brighton College Michael Hordern entered the real world as a schoolteacher...
Engaging in amateur theatricals in off-hours, Hordern turned pro in 1937, making his film debut two years later.
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Chris Terrill is a documentary maker with more than 100 films to his name. Terrill photographs, records and directs all his own films which range from the purely observational to the investigative.
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Dr Ayan Panja is one of the UK's most well respected media doctors.
After Brighton, he took his medical degree at the Imperial College School of Medicine and then went on to train in Buckinghamshire to become a GP. He took over an inner city surgery in North London in 2004 where he was senior partner for 6 years. He is now a partner in his home town of St Albans, at a large town centre practice.
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Sometimes credited as Thomas Charles Sanders II - he is the brother of actor George Sanders.
Born: September 15th, 1904, St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 22nd, 1967 in Culver City, California
He was the Falcon in ten of that series' entries. He starred in three Val Lewton horror classics. He appeared in comedies, musicals, two Tarzan films, and even science fiction films. He was early television's Detective Mark Saber - Tom Conway will probably be remembered as George Sander's (D. 1922) brother.
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Tamzin played Georgiana Darcy in Joe Wright's 2005 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice whilst still at Brighton College and has more recently played Katherine Howard in Showtime's The Tudors. She was last seen on our screens in January, in a wonderful adaptation of The Tale of Edwin Drood.
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Television Producer & Director
Nic was a dayboy at Brighton College Junior School between 1955 and 1960, and at Brighton College, Hamden House, from 1960 until 1966. A student at Brighton College of Art, he then studied Television Production at Ravensbourne College of Art before starting work in 1968 as an assistant director in commercials, then feature films, including The National Health, Billy Two Hats and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Formerly Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd - the charismatic BBC Radio 1 DJ and television chat show host.
Born: 28th July 1935
Died: 30the August 2009, aged 74
Ottawa, Canada.
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Film & Television Actor
nominated by Chris Mitchell (H. 1957-61)
Born: 1940, Croydon.
A supporting actor, Castle began appearing on screen in 1966. He went on to take supporting and starring roles in a wide variety of movies - most recently Ronald F. Maxwell's 2003 film "God and Generals".
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Internationally known culinary and television personality & award-winning author.
Born: 22nd January, 1934, London
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Highly successful films include 1971's "Friends" and "The Abominable Dr. Phibes"
nominated by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (A. 1966-71)
Born: 15 August 1954, Brighton, UK.
An initially successful career (featuring 1968’s "IF", lead in Lewis Gilbert’s highly acclaimed "Friends" and a starring role in "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" - both 1971) that appeared to last no further than 1977 - unless any OBs know better! -
Actor best known for his many TV appearances, most infamously in the abortive BBC soap Eldorado!
nominated by David Gold
Roland Kingsford Bernard Curram has appeared in countless movies, the most important of which was probably John Schlesinger's quintessential Sixties film Darling, playing opposite Julie Christie.
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A talented interior designer who joined BBC One's Changing Rooms team in 2000.
Oliver Heath is a young and talented designer who joined BBC One's Changing Rooms team in 2000.
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A veritable force in motion picture advertising, video games, television and film, Kaveh has taken the industry by storm. With his intense and cutting edge sound, Kaveh's compositions have thrilled audiences on both the large and small screen in literally hundreds of campaigns for Hollywood's biggest blockbuster films including: Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia, Alice In Wonderland, The Wolfman, Twilight Eclipse, Robin Hood, Avatar, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, Watchmen, The Dark Knight and countless others. Not stopping at movie trailers, Kaveh has scored numerous commercials for clients including AT&T, Sony, SEGA, NBC, Mattel and Six Flags.
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British actor, scriptwriter and playwright. Malleson is probably most familiar as the genteel hangman of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) or as Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).
Born: 25 May 1888
Croydon, Surrey.
Died: 15 March 1969
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Bijan is an associate director at the National Theatre where his recent work as a director includes The Kitchen, Greenland, and Our Class.
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Following much encouragement from the music department during her time at Brighton College, Nina now continues to write music for film and television. In recent years she has scored sci-fi remake A for Andromeda, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bafta-winning drama White Girl, and the hit BBC1 comedy with Ben Miller, The Worst Week of My Life. Nina has just finished working on a new drama for BBC2 called The Night Watch, adapted from Sarah Water's WWII novel. The music is in keeping with Nina's unique style of writing, ranging from dark, dramatic and eerie to the more romantic.
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Comedian, author, escort to fridges in Ireland...
doesn't ride skateboards, apparently. Tony Hawks is a TV and radio comedian and bestselling author.
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Dennys Valentine Jack McDonald Hobley - a leading BBC Radio personality from the 1930's - 1960's.
Born: 9th June 1917, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Died: 30th July 1987
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