Early Life The actor James Robertson Justice was given the name James Norval Harald Justice at birth. He was born in Lewisham, South East London on 15 June 1907. His parents were Edith and James Norval Justice, a Scottish mining engineer. He was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire. After leaving school he studied science…
Early Life and Career The actor Jack Hawkins was born John Edward Hawkins on 14 September 1910 in the Wood Green suburb of Haringey, London. He was the youngest of the four children of Thomas Hawkins, a builder, and his wife, Phoebe. Hawkins was educated at Wood Green’s Trinity County Grammar School. He made his…
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…
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