Early Life Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley on 5 November 1913 on St. Paul’s School campus in Darjeeling, Bengal, India. She was the only child of businessman Ernest Hartley, and his wife, Gertrude. Ernest was from Bridlington, Yorkshire, while Gertrude, who grew up in India, is thought to have been of Irish, Armenian…
Early Life Edward (Albert Arthur) Woodward was born on 1 June 1930 in Croydon, Surrey. He was the only child of Edward (Oliver) Woodward, a metalworker, and his wife, Violet. He received his tertiary education at a number of schools in Surrey, including the Kingston Day Commercial School. Later, he went on to attend Kingston…
Early life and Career Leslie (Samuel) Phillips was born in Tottenham, London on 20 April 1924. He was the third child of Cecelia and Frederick Phillips, who worked at a gas cooker manufacturing company. He had an older brother, Fred, and an older sister, Dorothy. In 1931, the family moved to Chingford, where Phillips attended…
Early Life Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 at the Victoria Hotel in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. He was the eldest son of Robert and Eliza Laughton, who were the hotel proprietors. His mother, a devout Christian of Irish descent, raised her three sons to follow the Catholic faith. Laughton briefly attended the local…
Early Life and Career Peter (Wilton) Cushing was born on 26 May 1913 in Kenley, Surrey. He was the second son of Nellie and George Cushing, a quantity surveyor. During the First World War, the family lived in Dulwich but moved to Purley in Croydon after the war ended in 1918. Cushing was taken with…
Early life Donald (Henry) Pleasence was born on 5 October 1919 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Alice and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway station master. His brother, Ralph, five years older, was his only sibling. Pleasence was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received…
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