Early Life and Career Flora (McKenzie) Robson was born on 28 March 1902 in South Shields, County Durham. The fifth of the six children of Eliza and David Robson, a ship’s engineer, she had four sisters and a brother. In 1907, the family moved from Wallsend to Palmers Green, North London. She was educated at…
Early life The actor Kenneth (Gilbert) More was born on 20 September 1914 at Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. He was the only son of Edith and Charles More, a civil engineer. More spent much of his childhood in the Channel Islands where he attended Victoria College in Jersey. After leaving school, More followed the family…
Early Life The British actor, director, and producer John Mills was born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills on 22 February 1908 in North Elmham, Norfolk. Mills grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where his father was a maths teacher, and his mother was a theatre box office manager. He had a sister, Annette, some 13 years older,…
Early Life and Career The actor, author, and theatre director, Anthony Quayle was born in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire on 7 September 2013. He was the only child of Arthur and Esther Quayle, who christened him John Anthony. His lawyer father, a big fan of the theatre, often took his son to see stage performances in…
Early Life The actress Celia (Elizabeth) Johnson was born on 18 December 2008 at 46 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey. Nicknamed “Betty”, she was the second of the three children of John and Ethel Johnson. John Johnson was a doctor and the physician of the Duke (the future George VI) and Duchess of York. Between 1919…
Early Life The actor Trevor Howard was born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith in Cliftonville, Margate, Kent on 29 September 2013. Later in life, he claimed to have been born in 1916 but his school records and other sources show otherwise. He was the son of Mabel and Arthur Howard-Smith, an insurance underwriter for Lloyd’s of London….
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